Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'll give thee two shillings for the wench . |
| 2 | And so the Phantasms propelled their two prisoners in the direction of the heat sink . |
| 3 | The 20 foot roof above our heads provided perfect shelter for all eventualities , so we decided to share our last scraps of food in another bivouac after fixing the ropes on the first two pitches above the terrace . |
| 4 | The guide said two pitches up the wall , a chimney and a wall to a good stance . |
| 5 | He cited the battle fought at the CPSU congress in July [ see pp. 37614-17 ] , a campaign of misinformation about Soviet policy towards the Gulf crisis ( an oblique reference to Soyuz ) , and a recent , much-repeated public boast by two deputies from the military , whom he described disparagingly as " boys with colonels ' stripes " , to the effect that having cleared Bakatin out of the way " the time had come to settle accounts " with Shevardnadze . |
| 6 | However , the last two scales concerning the amount of moving and fixed objects were included in that study specifically to aid interpretation of the recognition results from this study and will be considered below . |
| 7 | Mario also maintains the drainage system behind the two toilets in the statue itself , plus the one at its foot , that cater for about 1.8 million visitors every year . |
| 8 | For example , when writing letters I do not use Add a frame , the Thesaurus , Create drawing , Charting and I can quite well do without the final two icons on the default palette that concern icons themselves . |
| 9 | Indeed Saab has run an advertising campaign specifically linking the two activities in the hope of raising car sales , by transferring an up-market high-technology image from aeroplanes to cars . |
| 10 | Two projects in the melting pot at the moment are a Youth Award Scheme , which could help us liaise with schools as well as the community and a package of favourable trading arrangements as a membership incentive . |
| 11 | There are two projects in the Library which I consider appropriate for the involvement of the Friends . |
| 12 | Two projects in the area of personal and social development have been completed within the last year : |
| 13 | A straight line joining the two notes with the word ‘ gliss . ’ |
| 14 | He was obviously satisfied that I was on the level and reserved two birds on the spot , £35 each . |
| 15 | Among the small land birds , an obvious change in the last half century has been a dramatic turn round in the fortunes of two birds in the bunting family . |
| 16 | Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) need to be completely phased out because of their contribution to the greenhouse effect , say two researchers at the University of Munster , Germany . |
| 17 | TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell . |
| 18 | For instance , two researchers from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh , Roy Malpass and P. G. Devine , have recently described non-hypnotic ‘ guided memory ’ procedures which helped people to identify faces in experiments . |
| 19 | A plump , pretty girl , with a sensible scarf , two badges on the lapel of her corduroy overcoat , her face and stance vibrant , unflinching , exalted … |
| 20 | Scientific writings were read widely by educated people , unlike today , when we are divided into two cultures by the inaccessibility of science to non-experts . |
| 21 | A fascinating insight is provided into those two cultures by the fact that Western writers disapproved in the case of China , but greatly approved in the case of Japan . |
| 22 | Two years ago , NASA at the last minute reneged on a joint venture with ESA to send two satellites to the Sun in what was called the International Solar/Polar Mission . |
| 23 | The Banshee came to grief two minutes off the start while lying third , a length down on the leader , Red Alligator . |
| 24 | ‘ At two minutes past the hour , Rajputana was gone . |
| 25 | as so , more or less as soon as he 'd said hello he said erm thirty two and two minutes past the hour , they 're your trains . |
| 26 | It would have two minutes at the end ! |
| 27 | Issues that should take at least an hour of discussion with colleagues , as well as with the pupil concerned , have to be dealt with in two minutes at the staffroom door during break . |
| 28 | Ferguson blasted home a 30-yard drive with six minutes remaining , and there were only two minutes on the clock when substitute Trevor McMullan hit the jackpot from 20 yards . |
| 29 | Ferguson blasted home a 30-yard drive with six minutes remaining , and there were only two minutes on the clock when substitute Trevor McMullan hit the jackpot from 20 yards . |
| 30 | Snatching two minutes on the phone , Graham Massey explains what he likes to spliff up and chill out to . |