Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 2 | TWO prisoners bungled an escape bid after running either side of a lamp-post — while handcuffed . |
| 3 | Only two prisoners refused the offer of early release in exchange for forfeiting their fee as volunteers . |
| 4 | These two institutions have a history , and they are therefore specific to a particular time and type of society and , as time passes and society goes on changing , as it always has , these institutions will change . |
| 5 | Two scales showed a correlation with positive changes on an outcome measure — Spielberger State Anxiety Inventory . |
| 6 | Yet the two activities have no obvious relationship . |
| 7 | HIT man Chris Hackney scored two gems to give the Jewellery Division victory over battling Wedgwood Barlaston and win the Group 's soccer tournament . |
| 8 | Some explanation is perhaps needed for the fact that the same phrases also sound more normal in ( 18 ) than the corresponding phrases in ( 15 ) : ( 18 ) the heir is a lawful one her cousin is a distant one Possibly we should accept that , even when used in a context of heirs and cousins respectively , these two adjectives occupy an intermediate position in the sense that they can be construed either way without any significant difference in the non-linguistic phenomena that can be designated thereby . |
| 9 | It then takes a further two minutes to suspend the inner under the fly . |
| 10 | CARLISLE 'S George Oghani took just two minutes to hit the back of the net . |
| 11 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
| 12 | In the event , by the intervention of the umpire , Norrish was given enough room after two minutes to grasp the stream and she held on to her advantage with great skill until Oxford were clear and the race was won . |
| 13 | Start the music and record one or two minutes to begin the all-important process of deep relaxation . |
| 14 | THREE goals and a missed penalty in the last two minutes climaxed a thriller , with Derby clinching their sixth consecutive away win . |
| 15 | Prior to cycling , the reaction was incubated at 72°C for two minutes to repair the single stranded gap between linkers and cDNA . |
| 16 | While the male of one of these species constructs the nest alone ( as in other weavers ) , in others the female also involves herself in this activity and in two cases receives the active assistance of additional apparently adult birds . |
| 17 | Pathological examination of the resected specimens in two cases showed the typical appearance of Dieulafoy 's lesion . |
| 18 | Two cases illustrate the point . |
| 19 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |
| 20 | While there , he spent two hours outlining the new Japanese thinking to the Soviet president . |
| 21 | The jury took two hours to return a majority decision finding Shepherd guilty of assaulting Mr Hyslop . |
| 22 | County workers travelled in less technological gritters , snow ploughs and snow buckets and spent two hours dragging the expensive machine back on to the road . |
| 23 | It took her two hours to put the curlers in ! |
| 24 | Gentle lavage with warm isotonic saline ( 37°C ) and air was used to clear the entire small intestine of residual contents before instilling 75 µg of cholera toxin in 5 ml of isotonic saline for two hours to induce a stable secretory state . |
| 25 | It took more than two hours to control the flames at the Publicity Blinds factory on Regent Street in Northampton . |
| 26 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 27 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 28 | I spent half an hour painting layer upon layer over the hole and went to bed , and in the morning took two hours picking the varnish off because I 'm quite hairy , and then the damn thing moved again . |
| 29 | You can get a train to Green which and happily spend the next two hours watching the marathon . |
| 30 | In fact I think one has to be like an athlete to get even that one , or two hours done every day . |