Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got to know the two men well I got a visual image of these judgements — Lenin , solid and stocky , advancing at an even pace , and the slight figure of Bukharin galloping off in front , but always needing to feel Lenin 's presence . |
| 2 | Thinking it meant the arrival of a new doctor , she stopped to read the two names on it . |
| 3 | The centre of the fighting was the headquarters of the Hasidic Lubavitcher sect where blacks and Jews exchanges volleys of bricks and bottles , whilst police in riot gear tried to keep the two groups separated . |
| 4 | Petion looked at her with a worried frown as he tried to link the two concepts . |
| 5 | He kissed Laura , sat down , and tried to bring the two subjects put to him into order , and under one heading . |
| 6 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 7 | This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying . |
| 8 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 9 | For a long moment their glances clashed like swords , then there was a shout behind her , and she turned to see the two men he 'd been talking to and a short stout woman in a dark overall running towards them . |
| 10 | He turned to reach the two glasses of wine that stood on a bedside table ; he 'd brought them with him from the dinner table . |
| 11 | In it he envisaged linking the two seas to generate electricity , based on the proposals of the engineer Max Bourcart , who wanted the canal to run from Haifa Bay , through the Bet Shean Valley , and then down the Jordan Valley . |
| 12 | Tsu Ma smiled and looked away ; turned to face the two men in the room with him . |
| 13 | Witnesses in Berridale Avenue in Baillieston , where the attack happened said the two men , both wearing balaclavas , hurled the flaming bottles through one of the van 's windows . |
| 14 | The bookmakers offered less , racing demanded more and the government-appointed members of the Levy Board , which distributes the money , failed to persuade the two parties to split the difference . |
| 15 | Peng Yu-wei still held his staff , but with his other hand he now sought to draw the two ends of the torn silk together . |
| 16 | This remained a crucial obstacle until well into the 1960s , when attempts began to synthesise the two ideologies , in what has become known as Liberation Theology . |
| 17 | The key point here is that it only attempts to link the islands into a loosely coupled way , and avoids the expensive development work needed to synchronise the two systems together exactly . |
| 18 | During the scoring of the recall tests , it was noticed that those of the Cornell students seemed much more full than those of the community college students , and the researchers decided to analyse the two sets of results separately , instead of together , as had originally been planned . |
| 19 | In its promotion of conjoint nationalism and communism the League resembled the Kuomintang at this time : and it lasted only as long as the Kuomintang managed to contain the two movements . |
| 20 | In Metropolitan Properties v. Lannon ( C.A. , 1969 ) Lord Denning appeared to combine the two tests . |
| 21 | I did find the two sons of one of my brothers . |
| 22 | I must explain here that , as neither Nigel nor I had religion , I had arranged the two speakers and then planned to say a few words myself , to thank everyone , in and out of sight . |
| 23 | Abbotsfield and Carinish Court : Peter had heard the two names for the first time on the same evening in July 1964 . |
| 24 | Commentators noted that the collapse of communist power in the Soviet Union , following the August coup attempt there [ see pp. 38368-73 ] , had hastened the two countries ' moves towards normalization . |
| 25 | Tessa had subdued the two boys , Bob discovered with relief and admiration when he went out to the living-room . |
| 26 | They are also a reminder that although the 1474 agreement had forbidden the two nobles to retain the same men , this left open the possibility of other forms of shared allegiance . |
| 27 | They are also a reminder that although the 1474 agreement had forbidden the two nobles to retain the same men , this left open the possibility of other forms of shared allegiance . |
| 28 | He had forbidden the two girls to attend the Requiem Mass because he said it would upset them too much . |
| 29 | ‘ Your father was a hard man for the women in his day , ’ McQuaid said addressing the two girls . |
| 30 | The FMLN on Jan. 21 admitted that investigations had shown that its soldiers had shot the two men and it proposed that they should be tried by an FMLN tribunal with independent participants . |