Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A MAGISTRATE set bailiffs on to two companies for being £26,000 behind with business rates — without realising the firms were HIS .
2 Eventually the SIB narrowed their investigations down to two electricians with pocket knives , Larry and one other .
3 And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ?
4 She 'd gone on into a book-lined room which appeared to be in use as an office , and she was placing the shotgun along with two others in a locking steel cabinet .
5 Vukovar and Vinkovci south of Osijek were bombarded on Aug. 25 on a scale unprecedented in the conflict , possibly in retaliation for the shooting down of two air force jets by Croatian forces in the area on Aug. 24 .
6 I clinically affected animals up to two years old these are usually in excess of 3.0 i.u. tyrosine ( normal levels are 1.0 i.u. in non-parasitised calves ) .
7 In fact , he 'd beaten the crap out of two bailiffs and then been caught in possession of several extremely valuable and extremely stolen computers .
8 branching to one course of action out of two possibilities depending upon the result of a mathematical , textual or logical condition
9 He was tired and crotchety , heaving his basket along with two hands .
10 All the hip young things were forced to buy shoes up to two sizes larger than normal .
11 Are you telling me you 've built some jealous fantasy out of two seconds on the phone ?
12 Originally it was planned to bring the tax in in two stages starting with an eight per cent rise and then moving up to the full seventeen and a half .
13 The pound is down at one dollar , fifty and more than three pfennigs down at two marks , forty-seven .
14 He says : ‘ It 's the ideal match up between two men of different styles , which should make it a very , very exciting fight . ’
15 He and the Bosnian Croat leader , Mate Boban , also signed a new paper giving interim arrangements for governing the country during a period up to two years .
16 Migraine is a very severe , often one-sided , headache which can last from several hours up to two days .
17 Geoffrey , who has learning difficulties , had taken his newly repaired bicycle out with two friends .
18 They send their prospective consultants out for two days before they come into head office for the three day training .
19 This time the movement of the boat helped him , and Maurice rocked the whisky out in two curves , one for each glass .
20 The men will be sentenced next month along with two others who 'd admitted the charges .
21 He leaned the chair back on two legs and put the sole of one shoe against the bedrails , then pulled on the rope of nylon until his biceps began to crack .
22 Erm and on this side we send people out for two days before they come in to training so they are at least familiar with what what we do .
23 Just because nobody actually wants to use a drug that hops around on two legs , croaking , it does n't mean that you ca n't get nicked for it .
24 Then slow the pace down for two minutes before hiking it up again .
25 There was only a tiny little row in between two streets , there was about six houses I think it was .
26 She held her eyelashes up with two fingers to curl them .
27 She said well I know , cos when Elaine went to pick it up she said , Elaine told her I would n't want to make the choice out of two typewriters , I just said Pam did n't really care what she had as long as she had one
28 He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods .
29 The authority has put forward positive proposals ( ‘ the Headington Strategy ’ ) , now under consideration by the Regional Health Authority with the intention of submitting the proposals to the Department of Health by December 1993 for ‘ Approval in Principle ’ , for consolidating the main hospitals on to two sites , namely the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospital sites , with the consequent closure of the Radcliffe Infirmary .
30 He draped his wet clothes over a chair in front of the stove and ladled rice and beans on to two plates .
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