Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two prisoners escaped over the wall of Oxford prison last night by tying clothes together . |
| 2 | A WOMAN law clerk was remanded in custody yesterday at Manchester magistrates ' court , accused of helping two prisoners escape from the court where they were on trial over the Strangeways jail riot . |
| 3 | I 've got two essays to write in the next fortnight . |
| 4 | As the two hellraisers met for the first time for the benefit of the world 's press , they exchanged jokes . |
| 5 | They could not reach agreement and so in the end two definitions emerged in the document : 1 . |
| 6 | Two projects commissioned by the European Commission — the competitiveness of the Community 's ‘ tradeable service sector ’ relative to Japan and the USA , and the ‘ identification of the technical devices that will lead to new service activities in the next 10-15 years and the role which these new services might play in European society ’ — were completed in 1985 . |
| 7 | Two birds swooping through the air at tremendous speed caught our eye , and we watched spellbound as a pair of long-tailed skuas gave a tremendous display of aerobatics before settling on the tundra not far away . |
| 8 | The fierce debate between these two tendencies pointed to the difficulties — and personal anguish — women often experienced when they tried to develop positive representations of their own sexuality . |
| 9 | The tradition , as related by Butcher , is that in 1209 ( the date popularly associated with the introduction of bull-baiting into England ) , William de Warrenne , Lord of Stamford , on looking out from his castle walls , saw two bulls fighting for a cow in the castle meadows . |
| 10 | Meg stood behind him , at his shoulder , holding the two lamps steady above the page , following Ben 's finger as it moved from right to left , up and down the columns of cyphers . |
| 11 | I maintained a straighter course now but perpetually wanted to stop , and so had to ration myself to two minutes rest in every fifteen , and ten minutes on the hour . |
| 12 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 13 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 14 | It took us about two minutes to get into the basement flat , about five minutes for Nicola to shake off the giggles and about another five for me to brief her as to what to say . |
| 15 | For precisely two minutes explain to an imaginary senior manager what your report is all about . |
| 16 | For comparison purposes it is interesting to note that searching a sequential ASCII file using a standard Unix command ( grep ) takes approximately two minutes to look for the 22 words of the test sentence , not including all the alternative candidate strings for each of these word positions . |
| 17 | There were only two cases mentioned in the media where a charge of indecent assault involved an older female technically assaulting a girl under 16 . |
| 18 | And then , after two years , we were allowed on to the wards in our white coats and we had to erm find out about the patients and initially we were all very slow and we were given two hours to talk to a patient to find out all about them . |
| 19 | Thus , after two days in which a negotiated settlement to the original squabble seemed possible , an ultimatum to the Vietminh to clear out of Haiphong in two hours led to a bombardment which must have killed at least 1,000 people , many if not most of whom would be described as innocent civilians . |
| 20 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 21 | We have just er er spent two hours looking at a report whether that will be the report we 'll use at that particular time needs to be agreed yet . |
| 22 | After about two hours flying over the sea , they swung in over the coast and were given a welcoming burst of anti-aircraft fire . |
| 23 | Six demonstrators spent two hours chained to the fence at the R-A-F Aston Down Airfield near Stroud . |
| 24 | ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
| 26 | Graham Brown , a 33-years-old farming contractor lay for nearly two hours trapped by the legs in a large field machine . |
| 27 | After about two hours sitting on the concrete floor , the prisoners were taken , one by one , into a room to be interviewed by an Englishman in plain clothes . |
| 28 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
| 29 | Up to two adaptors attach to the 200 at £386 each . |
| 30 | Two coaches to travel with the team are Nicholf Cruz and Noel Humpston of Dublin . |