Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year later George and Mary Sumner moved to Farnham Castle , where their two daughters were born . |
| 2 | A third , small , anoraked figure approached the sergeant from behind where his two captives were kicking their legs like the rear end of a pantomime horse on speed . |
| 3 | I was missing the warmth of the people , although my two years in the ‘ east ’ gave me quite a lot of material which you will discover in the following pages . |
| 4 | EC proposals for a reference price are likely to favour the UK industry , which is more efficient than its two competitors , Spain and Germany , enabling British Coal to grab a decent share of European supply and maintain a larger capacity . |
| 5 | ‘ So you two pricks are big mates.now , ’ Jamila hissed at me later . |
| 6 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 7 | We know no more than his two letters tell us . |
| 8 | He won the Republican nomination this year largely because he persuaded conservative voters that he favoured ‘ life ’ more than his two principle opponents . |
| 9 | Basically it 's two things coming together and becoming more than their whole , you 've got two things two people working together producing more than what two people can produce it 's the relationship that produces that extra little bit more . |
| 10 | Wilma finished the session by cantering into four foot fences and popping over them as if they were no bigger than our two foot nine ones — which made me realise how far we have to go . |
| 11 | Two ‘ Green Bush ’ bush marrow plants would have provided enough decent-sized marrows for our needs , while it looks as if my two courgette plants probably wo n't give enough fruit to justify their considerable demand on space in the plot . |
| 12 | No time-scales for introduction are set , but Amdahl does not plan an integrated application environment until its two lines of long-awaited Sparc machines are out — they 're now set for year-end and early next year respectively . |
| 13 | No time-scales for introduction are set , but Amdahl does not plan an integrated application environment until its two lines of long-awaited Sparc machines are out — they 're now set for year-end and early next year respectively , see below . |
| 14 | So I 'll be obliged if you two gents would drink up and leave . ’ |
| 15 | He waited until his two attackers — each to be paid £1,000 , with £500 expenses — disappeared in the dark before climbing to safety . |
| 16 | He has agreed to take the appointment because his two sons are now grown up . |
| 17 | Widow Mansfield , for example , was granted 3s. medical relief for ‘ bad eyes ’ , John Treadwell had 2s.6d because his two children were ill , and William Ames was allowed 5s. on account of his wife 's lying-in . |
| 18 | It never has moved from there because our two chairs and it 's normally only two of us watching it , cos if we 've got visitors we never have it on , you know , er they just face that way and it 's convenient and that 's where we put it . |
| 19 | Much has transpired in Poland since my two conversations with Krzysztof Kieslowki in Berlin and Cannes — a July election giving a popular mandate to Solidarity ( of which Kieslowki is a member ) , President Bush 's tour of the Eastern Bloc , the insubstantial pledge of debt reduction , and the growing economic crisis which now threatens the fragile new government . |
| 20 | Since her two daughters have left home she has been researching 18th Century records preparatory to writing biographies of some political reformers . |
| 21 | After marriage she took a break while her two children were small , returning later to a fresh specialisation as Research Fellow at St. Mark 's Hospital , London ( gastroenterological/ coloproctological diseases ) She has M.R.C.P. ( London ) 1950 and D.M. 1971 . |
| 22 | ‘ Shall I be mother and pour or d' you want me to disappear while you two talk Jockey Club business . ’ |
| 23 | To fool the killers , he ‘ played dead ’ while his two friends were shot in the back of the head . |
| 24 | He took to drinking almost constantly from a champagne bottle in his hand , while his two girls — one fair , one dark — gave the proceedings a weirdly festive air . |
| 25 | After our two boys was killed I wanted ter move out but Sadie would n't 'ear of it . |
| 26 | I reached Belle-Ile by ferry from the peninsula of Quiberon , after a seven-hour drive in 27-degree heat from the Paris airport that nothing on earth would induce me to repeat — though my two companions , one British and one French , conversed enthusiastically on opera , European politics , and structural anthropology . |
| 27 | But I do agree as far as my two friends are concerned . |
| 28 | When my two children are very naughty I also smack them , and I use a slipper because it 's the softest thing that comes to hand . |
| 29 | I first started to think about painting about ten years ago when my two children married and left home and I thought I 'd ‘ do ’ something at the local adult education centre . |
| 30 | This is a very old settlement , as its two sentinel towers of medieval period suggest . |