Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After about two hours flying over the sea , they swung in over the coast and were given a welcoming burst of anti-aircraft fire . |
| 16 | Six demonstrators spent two hours chained to the fence at the R-A-F Aston Down Airfield near Stroud . |
| 17 | ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
| 19 | Graham Brown , a 33-years-old farming contractor lay for nearly two hours trapped by the legs in a large field machine . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Up to two adaptors attach to the 200 at £386 each . |
| 23 | Two coaches to travel with the team are Nicholf Cruz and Noel Humpston of Dublin . |
| 24 | The prisoner , a negro stevedore called Augustus Ciparis , remained locked up in his cell for four days after St Pierre had been laid waste , without food , half-dead from burns and shock , until his cries for help were heard by two negroes picking through the ruins of the town . |
| 25 | His most recent summer holidays were spent with his two sons walking in the central Pyrenees : ‘ It was quite gruelling . ’ |
| 26 | During a trade dispute in 1960 , a police officer found two pickets standing at the front entrance of a factory , four standing at the back entrance and ten or twelve outside the back entrance . |
| 27 | Two chauffeurs linger in the corner , one white with blond hair , the other a good-looking black guy . |
| 28 | That was what the professor thought about those two beetles going round the pebble . |
| 29 | Respective values for the later serial positions were compared between the two groups to test for the recency effect produced in the first group . |
| 30 | Firstly , stimuli are divided into two groups depending on the direction of turn shown in the film . |