Example sentences of "the two [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then it would surprise you , perhaps , to learn that Kao Chen was one of the two assassins you were after that day ten years ago . ’ |
| 2 | In fact , the two meetings we observed were concerned with a number of issues more or less closely related to the concerns of the project . |
| 3 | She added , referring to the two meetings she held with Mr Lawson on the afternoon before he resigned : ‘ I tried to persuade the Chancellor not to go . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean , the two reasons I even got involved in a group were at the party — Mark Smith and John Peel . |
| 5 | But a greater tribute to his genius were the results that continued to be achieved after his death by the two clubs he had put on such solid foundations . |
| 6 | And in the point-of-sale material just a headline as opposed to the two sentences you have now ? |
| 7 | By examining the costs , prices , and profits of the two firms they were able to conclude that the outcome of the conduct of the firms , however that conduct may be described , was against the public interest or , in economic terms , highly distortive of economic efficiency . |
| 8 | Of the two galleries he could see , he had already decided that one was unmanned . |
| 9 | Whilst it is not possible in this chapter to provide a detailed comparative analysis of the two periods it is important to outline the context within which adult education responses to unemployment in the 1980s take place . |
| 10 | The direct journey between the two towns he visited was further than that from London to Moscow . |
| 11 | Residents of the two towns he had visited were suffering from severe malnutrition , Dr Mardell said . |
| 12 | But the two families he preyed on were furious he was not caged longer . |
| 13 | Before the end of the day , he had had a short sharp interview with Chief Inspector Chips Salter , who produced the names of the two families he suspected of killing the Pitts , with his reasons for this suspicion , while at the same time letting John Coffin know he thought he was wasting his time looking elsewhere . |
| 14 | To measure the angle between the two lines we use a protractor . |
| 15 | But in the deep shade in the angle of the two hedges she could just make out that a pit had been dug . |
| 16 | Figure 3.1 shows the joint variation of the two properties we have been talking about , and , of course , the possible values which any unit can take . |
| 17 | Lineker 's double at Meadow Lane brought Spurs one of the two victories they feel they need to avoid the relegation fate that now seems inevitable for Notts County . |
| 18 | Sydney is a big as Los Angeles , and I was now far from the two teams I liked — Wests and St George . |
| 19 | ‘ Now we have to put that behind us and get the two wins we need to be safe . ’ |
| 20 | When you have practised the exercises for two or three weeks , go back to the two pages you read at the outset and time yourself as you read them again . |
| 21 | MESSAGE : To the two girls I asked the way to the offy . |
| 22 | And the two girls I beg your pardon ? |
| 23 | But er , I can nae really fault the two girls I 've worked with |
| 24 | The two girls he had noticed earlier were standing talking to some other girls . |
| 25 | it flies down their garden and in between the two houses it acts like a wind |
| 26 | In the general sports round … these are the two answers we were looking for and the two winners … |
| 27 | She had lost her cap , and so could not again conceal the glory of her hidden beauty , but she twisted the plait in a knot behind her head and clipped it there as best she could with the two pins she had found , so that it resembled the thick queue of a man 's old-fashioned wig . |
| 28 | The two sons she 'd reared had left home , and even being married to one of the richest men in Europe could n't compensate . |
| 29 | In order to do this Thorndyke split the two passages he used into propositions . |
| 30 | I wanted to concentrate the space to the sculptural potential it aspires to but does not fulfil , which meant that the two elements I decided to use needed to have a weight and mass comparable to that of the architecture . |