Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] on the two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in April 1848 the committee which Nicholas had set up under Menshikov reported negatively on the two most popular journals of the day , The Contemporary and Notes of the Fatherland , and recommended the creation of a new body to supervise the activity of the regime 's censors . |
| 2 | Those conversations , Coleridge remembered , ‘ turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry , the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature , and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination ’ . |
| 3 | The texture of the novel is in part created by the juxtaposition of dead metaphors and new ones created by slight adjustments to the normal patterns of the language : " … the sun looked down into the top of the dead tree and breathed warmly on the two people " ( p. 142 ) . |
| 4 | His mind touched briefly on the two defaulters who were awaiting their fate in the basement cells . |
| 5 | They were no doubt correct in believing that the financial burdens of Empire fell heavily on the two Castiles : heavy taxation drove industry and population to the peripheral regions and emphasized the decline of agriculture . |
| 6 | She yanked upwards on the two rings at the bottom of the window . |