Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] the two " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SHOPLIFTER gave the two police officers who arrested her a shock when she sent them a Christmas card . |
| 2 | If a programmer adds the two together , the database will not complain , though the programmer 's boss might . |
| 3 | A cart pulled out from the courtyard , driven by a soldier taking the two coffins down to the village church where the priest would sing a requiem and those two pathetic brothers be buried and , in time , forgotten . |
| 4 | " Certainly it would be a tragedy to see the two most powerful nations on earth destroying each other in such a way , " he agreed , " and let us pray that such a day never comes . " |
| 5 | A close-up showed the two of them as they were now , toasting each other with mint juleps . |
| 6 | President Mitterrand of France ( and he 's not alone in this ) has been anxious that too swift a move to reunify the two Germanys could destabilise Gorbachev , something that could spell disaster not only for the West but for the balance of world power . |
| 7 | In Johnson and Bloy ( Holdings ) Ltd v Wolstenholme Rink Plc [ 1989 ] IRLR 499 the Court of Appeal granted an injunction to the plaintiffs to prevent the defendant from disclosing or using the information that two specified ingredients might be used in combination in the manufacture of a drier for a printing ink and from manufacturing or arranging for the manufacture of printing inks containing therein a drier containing the two ingredients . |
| 8 | They 've sent me flowers and choclates , and they 've expressed a desire to accommodate the two young men who 've done this at their own institutions |
| 9 | In Pitham & Hehl ( 1976 ) 65 Cr App R 45 , a person took the two defendants to his friend 's house and sold them the furniture of his friend who was in prison . |
| 10 | Change in the atmosphere and ocean surface are clearly linked , but current models lack a factor joining the two . |
| 11 | A woman saw the two boys holding James by the hands about an hour after they had left the shops . |
| 12 | Desmond Clarke would no doubt have summoned up a helicopter to take the two naked ladies on a nationwide author tour and had them descending on bookshops by parachute . |
| 13 | As a birthday celebration some time ago , I set off with a companion to conquer the two more accessible ones , Sgurr Thuilm and Sgurr nan Coireachan . |
| 14 | At no time could the department justify why they had not allowed a rabbi to visit the two Jewish children in the mainland foster homes , or permitted Quakers to visit the two Quaker children , Can all these refusals really have been in the best interests of the children ? |
| 15 | When a female appears the two males start to perform the ‘ catherine wheel ’ display . |
| 16 | The individual close-ups should be shot from the same side of a line connecting the two characters so that the eyelines match from shot to shot in the way they do in the master two-shot . |
| 17 | If the mean levels for one hour and two hours are plotted , then a line intersecting the two points can be taken back to the y-axis ( Fig 7 ) and the hourly uptake calculated from the slope , thus : |
| 18 | This fell into three categories : those who waited for applications to come from staff , those who nominated or requested staff to attend courses , and those who had a system combining the two : |
| 19 | do n't look at him , I 've written the answer down when a country buys the two , Mark take your coat off , give me your walkman , not suppose to bring to school |
| 20 | Opposing bail at the Magistrates Court , a detective said the two women had been left penniless and without passports but were planning to leave in a couple of days . |
| 21 | Like most human beings of whatever condition or culture who send out and receive such close scrutiny in a public place the two of them dimly sensed at one tissue-thin layer within the oldest parts of themselves that the strangely alternating processes of mutual assessment had not been entirely used up . |
| 22 | A way to combine the two goals , safety and riches , eluded me . |
| 23 | It is important to understand that this ‘ code-switching ’ behaviour does not indicate an inability to keep the two varieties apart , but is used for stylistic effect , and is part of the complex linguistic repertoire of many bilingual communities all over the world . |
| 24 | Radelescu and Stoia ( 1979 ) , for instance , describe a microprocessor-based closed-loop control in which the switching angle is calculated by an algorithm involving the two previous step periods , enabling the rate of change of speed to be taken into account . |
| 25 | One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings . |
| 26 | One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings . |
| 27 | Colonel Henry Wilson negotiated with Mosley in an attempt to merge the two organizations . |
| 28 | Use the wiring loom fitted to the later IIa These were negative earth and will fit your vehicle As this has a dynamo system replace with an alternator Connect the two A terminal wires to the F terminal wire on the regulator box wiring insulate the other wires and tape up Connect the small terminal wire on the loom to the warning |
| 29 | That was the impression Bowe and Lewis 's representatives gave after more than three hours of talks yesterday aimed at trying to reach an agreement to have the two fight sometime early next Spring . |