Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a state visit to the UK on April 23-25 Walesa and UK Prime Minister John Major signed a joint declaration on Polish-UK relations , committing the two countries to work together for " a united , free Europe " . |
| 2 | There are two explanations put forward for why the King has relaxed his grip on the government . |
| 3 | The two classes work separately for ( say ) three weeks , and then come together in the hall in the fourth week . |
| 4 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 5 | But he declined to say whether the inspectors — two teams acting together for the first time in Iraq — had found any of the Scud missiles the United Nations thinks Iraq is hiding . |
| 6 | Bradford and Gosport are the two teams to watch out for , and we lost by only three goals away at Bradford . ’ |
| 7 | Unfortunately General Gordon was killed before its completion but his two sisters lived there for forty years . |
| 8 | Ever since then the custom has been kept up and the two halves clasped together for the marriages where it is applicable . ’ |
| 9 | Stelrad Doulton 's popular Vista range of bathroom equipment has been extended by the addition of two fittings designed specifically for the fitted bathroom — the semi-recessed washbasin and the back-to-wall WC . |
| 10 | It was boring in the passage but also , it proved , necessary , as one or two passengers came back for a look at the corpse . |
| 11 | Shaking a match out involves a lot of rattling and scratching about , before he lights the turd using two matches held together for a brighter flare . |
| 12 | The two girls stayed up for hours , and by the end of the evening a date had been arranged for the Paris adventure , and Clarissa had confided her plan for the Saturday afternoon of the visit . |
| 13 | ABAD-TEMPERED Uefa Cup game between Cologne and Red Star Belgrade last night ended with a last-minute winner for the West Germans , two players sent off for fighting , the Red Star coach involved in an after-match incident with an usher , and fighting between rival supporters . |
| 14 | The two legends came together for a race in aid of the charity , Comic Relief . |
| 15 | You can have a lot of fun shooting city lights , but there are one or two points to watch out for if you are going to come away with some really effective shots . |
| 16 | I had once found two names scratched on one of the window-panes , ‘ perhaps two soldiers billeted here for a time at the beginning of the 1914 War … ’ ( or perhaps soldiers in hiding at the time of the Reformation ? ) |
| 17 | When the fire was out the hut grew cold and the two boys settled down for the night under their blankets . |
| 18 | These two encounters sum up for Major , cast by history as EC president , the difficulties he faces in advance of a special summit next month . |
| 19 | Having escaped from their field , two goats wandered around for a while until they found themselves in a rubbish dump . |