Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [num ord] two " in BNC.

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1 I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth .
2 The government closed down the last two illegally militia-operated ports on May 15 , thereby taking full control of seaborne trade for the first time in a decade .
3 Write down the next two lines of a pattern of the bottom of the opposite page .
4 A is A two , write down the next two lines .
5 Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third .
6 Hannon had picked up the first two races as well after starting the day with no confidence at all .
7 Tutorials make up the first two days , followed by the main conference and associated exhibition .
8 Divide up the first two by speciality and the third by region .
9 Laboriously the little creature laced up the last two strands of an otherwise perfect web , checked to see every strand was in place , then scuttled to the centre and sat there waiting .
10 ‘ Alan played a brilliant shot when he needed to open up the last two reds . ’
11 Then pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 1 and 2 ( one already on needle 1 ) .
12 Pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 2 and 3 ( one already on needle 2 ) .
13 What the strategy does do , is to formalize and focus the analysis in a way that gives everybody concerned the essential basis for developing and judging good advertising — the two aspects that take up the next two chapters .
14 We had to blow out the first two weeks of an American tour . ’
15 from the first , an Australian marathon runner , take out the first two letters of his forename. from the second , an American sprinter , we want another two letters , this time the first two from his surname .
16 Place the colour key in the first two rows as described above but when you save the design to memory , miss out the first two rows , placing the save box to start on the third row of squares .
17 ’ Any audible signal probably took the form of one stroke per bar : Rousseau and Meude-Monpas agreed that French practice , in whatever context , was to tap out the down-beat only ; the Italians always tapped out the first two beats , if there were three or four beats per bar .
18 We need somewhere safe to sit out the last two or three hours . ’
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