Example sentences of "that [pron] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 a boys ' school and the headmaster there advised me not to put him there , he said send him to Newport Grammar school it 's the best school in Essex , best grammar school in Essex and he said that my two boys go there
2 " She gave up on me a long time ago , but she made sure that my two sons , Charles and Joseph , speak the language of her forebears , and that will stand us in good stead in your colony . "
3 Having said that my two roles models , if you like , are Jean-Pierre Rives and Michael Jones .
4 I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches .
5 Diode D1 is also mounted on a small heatsink so that its two pins go through to the appropriate foil points and the ‘ sink itself , which has solderable pins , is mounted vertically and fitted to the holes ‘ E-E ’ .
6 He simply would not accept that her two children should be allowed any further time off school for the purpose of family holidays .
7 Police said that their two accomplices arrested in Ireland had been carrying several addresses of safe houses in France .
8 This is not quite as simple as it sounds : the camera operators have to shoot in such a way that their two pictures will edit together , and skilled editing is required .
9 What was even more worrying was that she had never cried and even when he remonstrated with her and told her bluntly that their two children were dead and buried she just smiled and turned away .
10 It does seem to me that there are still relatively few women who become professional scientists , and today I hope that you two ladies will help me explore perhaps some of the reasons why this is the case .
11 At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up .
12 Yet Chapman saw that the future of English football ultimately depended on the young , and he was particularly concerned to win youngsters over to soccer and away from rugby , a concern heightened by the fact that his two sow , Ken and Bruce , were distinguishing themselves in the rugby code .
13 In time Lawless may be confronted by an obvious dilemma , the possibility that his two heavyweights , Mason and Frank Bruno , will be tempted into profitable confrontation , the suggestion being that they could come together some time next summer .
14 On 5 December 1991 the father applied for an order that his two children be returned to the jurisdiction of the State of Victoria , Australia , on the ground that the mother had taken them without his consent in breach of the joint custodial rights vested in him under the Australian Family Law Act 1975 .
15 When told that his two years at sea did not count , he resignedly attended his medical only to discover that his hearing was impaired and he was declared unfit for military service .
16 Astronomers can calculate when such maxima of solar insolation took place , and Fairbanks found that his two phases of accelerated run-off do not correlate with the maxima .
17 The conventional view of Mr Hussein is that his two invasions — of Iran in 1980 and Kuwait in 1990 — were vast and gratuitous mistakes .
18 This definition of topic has a certain intuitive appeal , in the sense that what two participants are concentrating on , in their conversational talk for example , is a reasonable candidate for ‘ the topic ’ .
19 There is talk of setting up a ‘ proud to be perverted ’ pressure group along the lines of Act Up ) , ( perhaps they should call it Strapped Up ) , which will campaign around the issue of consent , the idea that whatever two adults agree to do in the privacy of their own homes is no concern of the courts .
20 Would I be wrong in thinking that your two visitors decided to leave their message in a more visible form ? ’
21 I should like you to meet Augusta , but think that your two worlds are so different — And that is why I think there was surely never anything serious between us two … .
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