Example sentences of "of two [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | As the sub-manne pulled away , the captain ordered one of two soldiers he was carrying on board to open fire with his Lewis gun on the survivors in the dinghy . |
2 | A carving of a pair of riding boots was modelled on some from her Cape Cod tack room by a nephew , while paintings of two horses she once owned feature on one of the living room walls . |
3 | Beador 's own response was reassuring — he thought it a ‘ ripping good idea ’ and gladly added Fontana to the travelling stable of two hunters she had brought down from Yorkshire . |
4 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
5 | The first of two holidays they spent together was on a cruise ship , the SS Romantica which took them to the Greek Islands . |
6 | it 's a ratio of two lengths you can measure them in centimetres miles whatever you like but it 'll |
7 | Regular bills include a household expenses food , eating , a dress allowance and the retention of two nannies they 've |
8 | As we descended it became increasingly hot , and in the space of two hours we had dropped from rolling grassy hills to a sandy , semi-desert plain . |
9 | I visited the official information bureau in George Square armed with paper and the names of two groups I wanted to get the telephone numbers of . |
10 | Tonight , in the second of two reports we look at work being done to prevent the spread of Aids and the hopes for a medical breakthrough . |
11 | He had caused his father to have a near-fatal heart-attack , and finally , he had used a legal wrangle to cheat his mother out of two properties she inherited on the death of her mother . |
12 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
13 | Because when all said and done if at the end of two days you do n't feel that you 're any better at making a presentation then when you started then why have you been here for two days . |
14 | At the end of two days you say well fine but it 's not for me I ca n't do anything about that when you walk out the room but I hope my objective is to convince you that here is something that like lots of other people in time I can it 's a very very useful system . |
15 | All oriental rugs are made in one of two ways they are either hand-woven ( kelims ) or hand-knotted ( pile rugs ) . |
16 | Regarding the Nationalists as the lesser of two evils he joined with them to resist Japanese encroachments . |
17 | Over a period of two weeks they noted the time she went to bed each night and calculated an average ‘ time late ’ . |
18 | For most 18–30 's the night finishes quite late and by the end of two weeks you 'll probably find you 'll need a holiday . |
19 | At the end of two weeks she was hooked . |
20 | At the end of two weeks she was tired , frustrated , and close to despair . |
21 | While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep . |
22 | Over a period of two months we released some 300 000 into a small village in Upper Volta in West Africa . |
23 | In this land of two nations he was not big enough to be one of the just . |
24 | DETECTIVES trying to fill in gaps in the ‘ missing 23 hours ’ of murdered pensioner Doris Shelley have issued hi-tech photofits of two men they want to interview . |
25 | Police in Edinburgh have issued descriptions of two men they 're anxious to trace . |
26 | Then , the phone in her room rang , and for all of two seconds she stood transfixed . |
27 | ‘ We went through the contents of two handbags we found in the road . |