Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] the two " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They stood a moment by the kitchen window and compared the two Foundling girls who were playing with Lily in the garden . |
| 2 | He reached the hut and climbed the two or three steps to the verandah . |
| 3 | He swept the torch beam round the short passage and saw the two cell doors on his left were ajar . |
| 4 | PC Aspinall arrived on the scene and saw the two men pushing a car . |
| 5 | She swung lithely down to Dream Baby 's gaudily painted deck and cushioned the two hulls . |
| 6 | He perched himself on the edge of the gunwale and took the two ends of the rope in his hands . |
| 7 | Sigarup passed a lukal , and Kalchu slung it over the ram 's back and tied the two sets of stings , one across the chest and the other round the hind legs and under the tail . |
| 8 | The Silver Birches giggled in a skittish fashion and the Copper Beeches shook out their rippling manes of glowing leaf-hair and regarded the two Renascians through the red-gold curtains . |
| 9 | Just about this time he put his hand into his jacket pocket and found the two bills from Mouncy Street . |
| 10 | They sat on the sofa and watched The Two Ronnies , laughing at the same jokes . |
| 11 | This encouraged an end to labour force participation and established the two arbitrary ages as customary retirement ages . |
| 12 | From above Burtness Wood she looked down on the lake and watched the two men fishing throughout most of the morning … |
| 13 | He had covered his face from flying glass and watched the two men and the Returner escape through the office doors . |
| 14 | A mock-up of the Astra car in which the army shot and killed the two is displayed in an army canteen . |
| 15 | He looked down on the pretty garden and saw the two of them snoring there , their front claws tucked neatly under their chins which rested on silk cushions and their tails dipped tidily into the pond whose waters did not stir enough to move their dreams to wildness . |
| 16 | The fellow stepped back , affronted by the question , but Corbett opened his hand and showed the two silver coins . |
| 17 | In 1898 Emma , Lady Sherborne , converted the Lodge into her dower house , built two little lodges to herald its and her own grandeur and to house her staff , destroyed the staircase and made the two long rooms into four apartments . |
| 18 | He touched Doyle 's shoulder and saw the two gaping wounds , then noticed the third in the chest , above the heart . |
| 19 | Ian , Maureen and Paul , with representatives from each C&P works , formed a cross-function CAT which looked into the problem , designed a new system and scrapped the two useless ones . |
| 20 | Hendrique , using two paper napkins to protect his hands , removed the strip light from its socket on the ceiling of the carriage directly above the table then unravelled a length of flex and secured the two crocodile clips at the end of it to the respective overhead power points . |
| 21 | I threw my wine in his face and grabbed the two bullets . |
| 22 | When darkness had fallen , Bi ā and Sa kar climbed the ladder to the upper roof of Kalchu 's house and brought the two copper kettledrums out of the shrine at the back . |
| 23 | She went at once over to the table and regarded the two exhibits , the files and the scientific paraphernalia . |