Example sentences of "two [adj] [noun pl] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not so much small as rectangular , with a low ceiling , two narrow windows and a slab of aquamarine industrial carpet , firm to the touch . |
| 2 | It was a small room with two narrow beds and a hooked rug between them . |
| 3 | Two dry sherries and a couple of bottles of Nuit St Georges had washed it all down and now we were onto the coffee and brandy . |
| 4 | If I had written the script myself it could not have turned out better : two European titles and a British record . |
| 5 | He was to become a breed record holder , with twenty-nine CCs to his credit , two Working Groups and a Best in Show , All Breeds Championship Show . |
| 6 | The foot was too big to get a boot on so I put on two woolly socks and a plastic bag . |
| 7 | However , with the two medium-sized potatoes and a spoonful of carrots , she found this also quite to her liking . |
| 8 | Last year Captain Jack from Whitby , Yorks , was fined £1,000 for sailing with two old ladies and a vicar on an unfit vessel . |
| 9 | ‘ Whatever I say , ’ he said , ‘ will probably be addressed to two old ladies and a stray sheep . |
| 10 | ‘ Two old men and a dog . |
| 11 | Gary Smith 's five week old daughter Danielle suffered fourteen broken ribs , two broken legs and a brain haemorrhage , leaving her permanently mentally handicapped . |
| 12 | Charles , however , sustained two broken ribs and a fractured jaw . ’ |
| 13 | The village has one general store , an antiques shop , a garage , two public houses and a post office which was opened in 1851 and has been run by the same family since that date . |
| 14 | The room was unpainted and the only furniture consisted of a lime green sofa , two wooden chairs and a three-legged coffee table which was propped up against the wall to prevent it from toppling over . |
| 15 | Two teenage girls and a woman were hurt . |
| 16 | If you work for a company which insists that you drive a particular brand of car , resign , first writing off the car in an accident in which two teenage hookers and a hallucinating macaw reach a rather untimely end . |
| 17 | The ground floor consisted of two sizeable rooms and a kitchen , while upstairs there was a bathroom and three bedrooms . |
| 18 | The Ballyclare man , riding South African showjumpers , won two jump-off classes and a speed event . |
| 19 | In 1990 we found our first chiff-chaff on the count of March 11 and in 1989 , two early sand-martins and a solitary wheatear on March 12 . |
| 20 | Their quarters turned out to be a small suite , with two sleeping cabins and a minute dining-room . |
| 21 | It consists of two lateral lobes and a single small dorsal lobe . |
| 22 | If x is proportional to expt , we have to satisfy unc and for unc we therefore have two different roots : either two real roots or a conjugate complex pair . |
| 23 | TWO male strippers and a clubgoer were arrested in a swoop by police at a Liverpool nightclub . |
| 24 | He succeeded two Roman popes and a long line of Italians . |
| 25 | Three days later ( 6th January ) came a further announcement that four additional young Protestants , David Barr , William Bingham , Charles Martin and Joseph Miller , had been charged with murdering two Roman Catholics and a Protestant married to a Roman Catholic — again in three separate incidents . |
| 26 | Two Roman Catholics and a Protestant were shot dead on Nov. 15-16 as they left the factory where they worked in Craigavon , south west of Belfast . |
| 27 | The rest of the room was sparsely decorated and had only two wooden-backed chairs and a small steel-legged table . |
| 28 | We grew together struggling for supremacy like a wisteria — two trunks from one root — twining tortuously round each other 's faults and failings and culminating in the glorious flowers of two fine sons and a deep and immovable friendship . |
| 29 | After Shah Jehan had loaded his son with precious wedding gifts — ‘ a superb robe of honour , a jewelled dagger with incised floral ornament , a sword and a belt studded with gems , a rosary of pearls ’ , two fine horses and a pair of war elephants — and the gifts had been displayed and admired , the festivities began : |
| 30 | The stage set features two monumental Greek statues , a belly dancer , two giant balls and a moving ‘ love symbol ’ . |