Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] two [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Police in Edinburgh have issued descriptions of two men they 're anxious to trace .
2 ‘ We went through the contents of two handbags we found in the road .
3 A carving of a pair of riding boots was modelled on some from her Cape Cod tack room by a nephew , while paintings of two horses she once owned feature on one of the living room walls .
4 In the case of problems with two variables we can approximate the NLP : maximise subject to by taking and writing maximise subject to .
5 I visited the official information bureau in George Square armed with paper and the names of two groups I wanted to get the telephone numbers of .
6 DETECTIVES trying to fill in gaps in the ‘ missing 23 hours ’ of murdered pensioner Doris Shelley have issued hi-tech photofits of two men they want to interview .
7 Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour .
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