Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This nothing had two functions at least : assassin and whore . |
| 2 | The government of the Solomon Islands on Sept. 15 lodged a strong diplomatic protest with the government of Papua New Guinea in response to a seaborne raid by Papuan commandos on Sept. 12 which left two people dead . |
| 3 | The second concerns a love for God which is a gift and has nothing to do with learning ( c.5-7 ) ; this itself has two aspects covering that which is experienced sporadically by both actives and contemplatives , and a stabler devotion given after a long process of discipline in which the contemplative feels a " grete rest of bodie and of soule " ( 7.282a. – 81 ) . |
| 4 | Walker 's study of students at the University of Warwick is concerned with all mature students , however within this he distinguishes two groups , one in which the students did meet the university 's General Entrance Requirements ( GER ) and the second in which they did not ( Walker 1975 ) . |
| 5 | On his death in 1985 he left two gold watches to his sons . |
| 6 | JEFF KOONS 'S concept of art as a commodity is illustrated in his sculpture New Hoover Celebrity IV 1986 which features two vacuum cleaners seductively mounted on plexiglass and back-lit with fluorescent as if in a retail display . |
| 7 | The same applies to Handout 7 which has two case histories with questions related to contingent punishers . |
| 8 | 1991 we had two trees with flashing lights , and a local family , whose children had written in to us about the trees , were invited to switch them on . |
| 9 | In October 1522 he conveyed two freehold houses and 1 ½ virgates to a certain Thomas Hyll , but subsequently seems to have taken up residence at Hagley , for in October 1526 he was presented for operating a brothel in which his own daughter was the star attraction : prostitution , it has been suggested , was a concomitant of deferred marriage , widespread among the peasantry of the West Midlands . |
| 10 | There was there was a case of one girl who back in nineteen sixty eight she killed two boys when she was eleven . |
| 11 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 12 | At Chester in England in October 1807 she spent two days editing a slim volume of letters addressed to her by ‘ Several Africans and Indians ’ , including a black bishop , proto-feminist Indian women , and a convicted felon . |
| 13 | In the late Seventies he did two spells at the Royal National Theatre , playing Hamlet and Tamburlaine the Great on the move to the South Bank . |
| 14 | His friendship with Byron fired his own literary ambitions and after returning to London in 1812 he published two volumes on his travels . |
| 15 | He was greatly saddened by the death of his only son in action at Ypres , and in 1917 he published two poems in The Times , ‘ Bond and Free ’ and ‘ Wooden Crosses ’ , which aroused wide interest . |
| 16 | Party Politics , who stands at 18 hands , has had a history of wind problems and before and after last year 's National he had two operations to improve his breathing . |
| 17 | Right again that 's slightly complicated in that we have two roads coming from the Leeds direction and the |
| 18 | In 1317 he sent two cardinals to mediate between Edward and Bruce , who was regarded by John XXII as a pretender . |
| 19 | He said , ‘ To be safe I require two feet of water under the hulls . ’ |
| 20 | The CHES report confirmed that at age five there were differences in behaviour , in cognitive abilities and vocabulary between children of lone parents compared with those who had two parents . |
| 21 | LEEDS manager Howard Wilkinson has renewed his optimism about winning the championship following his team 's 3–0 win over Chelsea , which planted them back at the top , a point ahead of Manchester United who have two games in hand . |
| 22 | In 1847 he described two boys with what was obviously pseudo-hypertrophic muscular dystrophy , described twenty-one years later by Guillaume Duchenne . |
| 23 | In October and December 1930 he held two dinners to promote the idea , the guests including Ramsay MacDonald , Lloyd George , Lord Reading , Winston Churchill , and Sir Robert Horne . |
| 24 | In 1698 he equipped two ships to explore the Mississippi ; he also tried to encourage a Huguenot settlement on the Gulf of Mexico , and to float a joint-stock company to exploit Florida . |
| 25 | twenty one months in the sixth form , please do n't think that everybody has two years , erm and those , those |
| 26 | A special lining tape is available which has two flaps of tape running along one edge , between which the top of the lining is sandwiched . |
| 27 | Windows for Pens is basically a set of extensions to Windows 3.1 which does two things . |
| 28 | Despite a couple of fine LPs , among them ‘ The Most Of ’ , Edwards clicked more as a writer than a singer , and in 1966 he gave two songs to the Spencer Davis Group , ‘ Keep On Running ’ and ‘ Somebody Help Me ’ , both of which hit Number One . |
| 29 | First he pretended two Angels found a wallet full of cash in New York and returned it to a pensioner who had been attacked . |
| 30 | In the former he had two 1sts , two 2nds , a 4th and a 7th to discard , a clear indication of his mastery in this regatta . |