Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | two minutes past , because they have two minutes of news I think |
| 2 | Deane was always a threat and two minutes before half-time he claimed his second when he turned in a low cross from Barnes . |
| 3 | And two minutes from time they were level … |
| 4 | There are , however , two groups of people we do n't keep waiting : the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got rather a big order , ’ she said , ‘ mostly for slippers but one or two pairs of shoes I have to make in French calf . ‘ |
| 6 | However , there is an agonizing choice to make between at least two pairs of spectacles we might wear to take this critical look . |
| 7 | Fig 103 By making the first of two tacks into tide it is easier to judge when to tack for the mark since you are much closer to it than if you take the other course . |
| 8 | It makes a great difference which of these two forms of conventionalism we are to consider . |
| 9 | After two months in kennels they move on to the dog supply unit for 11 months , during which time they will be required to train at least six dogs up to the blindfold standard , and pass the guide dog trainer examination . |
| 10 | Cranmer played no rugby after the war , and apart from a handful of matches during his two months in India he played no cricket during the hostilities . |
| 11 | Now when it 's opened it 's useful as a sling , two sorts of slings we 're going to do , high sling and the low sling but also if you fold it , it 's very useful as a bandage too , if you put it across your knee , then you bring the point up towards you like that and then again , fold it the base up to the top again . |
| 12 | However , whilst asserting that the reporting accountant should already as part of his or her duties be auditing at least two reconciliations in detail they also argued that the process was ‘ highly unlikely to reveal a great deal that the reporting accountant would not otherwise pick up during the year-end work ’ . |
| 13 | They 'll leave the two kids at home you see , they get |
| 14 | Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody has a few thousand to go before he can ever catch Carson … that ca n't be done in jump racing of course … but the new champion is off to a flying start to the new season … two winners on saturday he won the first at Newton Abbot this afternoon |
| 15 | The two directions of thought he distinguishes , from effects to causes , and from causes to effects , are discussed by him in terms of resolution or analysis , and composition or synthesis . |
| 16 | Eliot 's writings on poetry do not contain a systematic theory , but on two matters of principle he adopted a stance strongly opposed to that of Richards : he refused to accept either that poetry consisted in the use of emotive language , or that it was simply a vehicle for communicating the author 's experience to the reader . |
| 17 | She saw him go to the bar and order a tray of Cokes and crisps for the children , and by the time he came back to her table carrying two mugs of coffee she had composed herself a little . |
| 18 | Simon poured a drop of rum into the two mugs of coffee he was making and handed one to Merrill . |
| 19 | This was very lucky and one of the two strokes of luck we had on the whole job . |
| 20 | During his first two weeks in France he read no English newspaper and barely glanced at a French one . |
| 21 | After two weeks in Czechoslovakia he was climbing in a style usually reserved for winter . |
| 22 | Despite this finding , the two classes of junction we have created on the basis of their phosphorus chemical shift can not be clearly distinguished in terms of the energetics of the B I -B II transition . |
| 23 | He thanked the fat Nubian for her help — it had indeed been well worth the two pieces of silver she had demanded — and left . |
| 24 | Er well before we proceed er there 's two pieces of information I 'd like to give you |
| 25 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 26 | Edward 's first year at Oxford , with its long hours of set daily lectures and prepared reading , its loneliness punctuated by long walks , longer letters , and occasional forays in search of new friendships , formed a gentle transition from the two years of freedom he had enjoyed , since leaving St. Paul 's , towards the severer demands that family and social demands were to make upon him . |
| 27 | After more than two years of discussions they have decided to publish two separate statements , one from each country , in the next few weeks . |
| 28 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |
| 29 | I , it , I , twice two years on trot I 've booked for him to go with me , and he wo n't go , he cancels it every time . |
| 30 | Mr Recorder Shaun Spencer QC placed Ninham on probation for two years on condition he takes medication to control his libido . |