Example sentences of "two [noun] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got two essays to write in the next fortnight . |
| 2 | We had two minutes to get into cover and walked round to the other side of the wall and crouched down with our hands over our ears and our helmets firmly strapped on . |
| 3 | It took us about two minutes to get into the basement flat , about five minutes for Nicola to shake off the giggles and about another five for me to brief her as to what to say . |
| 4 | The question a to ask a supplementary question referring to the previous answer and that chair must have two minutes to reply to that . |
| 5 | You could give them two minutes to check with their neighbours what they think has happened . |
| 6 | For comparison purposes it is interesting to note that searching a sequential ASCII file using a standard Unix command ( grep ) takes approximately two minutes to look for the 22 words of the test sentence , not including all the alternative candidate strings for each of these word positions . |
| 7 | The fact of its presence was all I was going to learn , however , as it had revolving combination locks which were easy enough to undo , but only if one had two hours to spend on each lock , which I had n't . |
| 8 | And then , after two years , we were allowed on to the wards in our white coats and we had to erm find out about the patients and initially we were all very slow and we were given two hours to talk to a patient to find out all about them . |
| 9 | There were still two hours to go before high water springs on the sand bank . |
| 10 | Situated in Hind Cove , it takes over two hours to reach from Wasdale . |
| 11 | It took mum two hours to get to Debenham and it normally takes half an hour . |
| 12 | That gives us two hours to get there and two hours to prepare before Mait 's people begin to arrive for the ceremony . ’ |
| 13 | Two coaches to travel with the team are Nicholf Cruz and Noel Humpston of Dublin . |
| 14 | Their differing concerns have led the two groups to dwell upon different regions of the Empire . |
| 15 | Respective values for the later serial positions were compared between the two groups to test for the recency effect produced in the first group . |
| 16 | There were two meetings to attend in Ghent , the second one lasting into the evening , and Merrill 's notebook filled rapidly , predicting several busy days when she got back . |
| 17 | As Wilson recalled , his first experience of the courts occurred in April 1889 when he was fined five pounds and costs at Sunderland for having attempted to persuade two seamen to desert from the ss Edmonsley , an incident which Fairplay reported with glee . |
| 18 | Mark Robins bamboozled two defenders to whip in a cross which make-shift striker Rob Newman headed past England keeper Chris Woods . |
| 19 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |
| 20 | The reader might also care to note a paper by Milton on the possible use of two radiometers to correct for changes in irradiation . |
| 21 | The Individual Programme Plans of Elizabeth and Helen , which took two attempts to get off the ground because of staff changes and inadequate training , have been virtually suspended — even before the first reviews — because of the latest staffing upheaval . |
| 22 | As a preliminary , we must note that Thai has two forms to correspond to the English word old ; one is ( with superscript 2 indicating low tone ) which is used of animate beings , and the other is , applied to inanimates . |
| 23 | There are two styles to choose from : the traditional apex , shown here , and the flat pergola top . |
| 24 | WONDER BOY LEE SHARPE , hugely popular with the Old Trafford fans , must now rest for two months to recover from viral meningitis . |
| 25 | We had about two months to prepare for the seven of them ; a period useful not only for the co-ordinating of the PR assault but also , I believe , a safety gap , a firebreak , a time in which the military could take stock , an interval in which Goreng could see if there was to be a resurgence of the lost FAKINTIL in the hills . |
| 26 | The government has two months to reply to the charges . |
| 27 | Although emphasis was initially upon recognition of the variety of landscape features , sediments and structures that could be developed under periglacial conditions , the potential subsequently arose of developing a greater knowledge of phases of periglacial landscape development , and in Poland and other countries in Europe this emphasis was clearly evident in research in the 1960s and much of the research was reflected in Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1975 ) which was one of two books to derive from the earlier Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the receiver is still waiting for the club 's chairman , Samesh Kumar , and his two brothers to resign from Birmingham 's board of directors . |
| 29 | If money can buy happiness , what would you expect the relationship between the two variables to look like ? |
| 30 | We then moved on and expanded we expanded we brought with with a minimum of two words to do with each of those twelve words that we generated and we did this in a much faster way a much more creative way a right brain activity . |