Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the two " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a nest of cotton wool , in a little box , my grandmother kept the two wedding rings which had worn thin , then broken , during her married life , because of her handling of corn . |
| 2 | The question was put by a German television commentator in response to the resignation last week of one of Kohl 's top Cabinet ministers and in the face of mounting evidence that his government is falling seriously behind in its programme to stitch the two halves of the country together economically . |
| 3 | As he ran miserably out of the room , Hindley and his wife laughed loudly , delighted that their plan to separate the two young people seemed to be succeeding . |
| 4 | On January 21st , after three months of discussions , the managers of Continental , a German tyre maker , gave up trying to convince Pirelli , an Italian competitor , to drop its plan to merge the two firms and rejected any further talks . |
| 5 | She knew that Faye had issued the invitation to Tom as a deliberate part of her campaign to bring the two of them together , and somehow she had to summon the courage today … or soon … to tell her patient that it just was n't working , it was pointless , and she would prefer it if Faye gave up the idea . |
| 6 | She sat demurely in her desk watching the two mistresses closely . |
| 7 | point out that this change in procedure will tend to equalize the associative statutes of the two contexts and suggest that the context-specificity they observed in their first experiment was solely a result of their failure to equalize the two contexts in this respect . |
| 8 | A United Nations air traffic and arms embargo against Libya was starting today over its refusal to extradite the two suspects to Britain or the United States to stand trial for their alleged involvement in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988 , which killed 270 people . |
| 9 | Work on version two is continuing and will , the group says , include TCP/IP and Ethernet functions as well as the Common Level Interface , part of its strategy to get the two protocols interoperating with each other . |
| 10 | The long and the short of it is , her father owns the two shops — I suppose they 're joined at the back — and she was standing in for her father . |
| 11 | Mrs Joyce turned them back-to-back and the smaller children chuckled and somersaulted in their amusement to see the two girls were the same height . |
| 12 | During their Harbin meeting the two ministers discussed the Gulf crisis , and Qian Qichen told reporters that the stands of China and the Soviet Union on the issue were " close or identical " . |
| 13 | His opportunity to bring the two threads together as a writer came in the early 1980s through the radical London magazine City Limits — which also gave WCM regular Rob Steen his first break as a cricket-writer . |
| 14 | His voice was the merest whisper as he stared down the landing towards a particular door , his mind imagining the two people behind it ; two people he resented beyond words . |
| 15 | Colonel Graham Seaton Hutchinson , and his National Worker Party , also fizzled out ; his proposal to merge the two groups into the British Empire Fascist Party probably collapsed when the BF realized that the National Worker Party was aptly named . |
| 16 | Isaiah Berlin has pointed to the uncertainty in Marx 's attitude to this ‘ the most central of all the concepts of his system ’ and to his failure to reconcile the two views he expresses : the one , that in unalienated labour there is perfect freedom for the fullest realisation of human potential and happiness ; the other , that ‘ the need for this minimum of toil is an inescapable fact of physical nature which it is mere Utopianism to hope to conjure away ’ . |
| 17 | He had overheard his uncle warning the two maid-servants not to go up there because it was too dangerous . |
| 18 | His mother passed the two sheets of paper , typed in the smudged style characteristic of the Metropolitan Police , to her husband with a frown . |
| 19 | We thought perhaps we can use that as a goal standard , and pick up what actually happens with our project to compare the two . |