Example sentences of "[art] two [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He stuffs his pistol into the top of his trousers , tilts one of the two heavies back onto the rear chairlegs and drags him out the door , clumping down the steps to the gloom outside . |
2 | Place two fingers in the two holes directly to the left of the finger stop . |
3 | And with dignity he took the two glasses over to the bar . |
4 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
5 | ‘ So , ’ he was saying to the Prince 's chauffeur as Owen arrived , ‘ you picked the two girls up from the salon and took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’ |
6 | When the referee talks to the two boxers just before the first round , each fighter stares closely and directly into the opponent 's eyes . |
7 | Place the two ingredients together in a vinaigrette bottle or small screw-top jar and shake vigorously until blended . |
8 | More importantly , it has brought the two companies close to the brink of financial disaster . |
9 | The older man regarded the two women expressionlessly for a moment , then stepped forward . |
10 | The two women closest in the world to Charles were already known to be the Queen and Camilla , whom Charles had readily confirmed was a trusted friend . |
11 | Beth Shepherd set the two bags down on the kitchen table then went to the garden door and undid the top catch . |
12 | We were perhaps closest in the two winters immediately after the first rebel tour to South Africa in 1982 , when we both signed to play for Western Province while serving our Test bans . |
13 | He took the two boys off to a Lyons Corner House in peckham Rye , invited them to Bedford Gardens to meet Colquhoun and MacBryde , showed them his paintings , played Marlene Dietrich and Billie Holiday records and in one remarkable evening left them firmly hooked on the Bohemian life , determined also to become artists . |
14 | A cart pulled out from the courtyard , driven by a soldier taking the two coffins down to the village church where the priest would sing a requiem and those two pathetic brothers be buried and , in time , forgotten . |
15 | All right then well I 'll get the I 'll get the two councillors on in a minute . |
16 | What circumcision was to men of faith under the old covenant , assuring them that they belonged to Yahweh , so baptism is to the Christian ; and Colossians 2:11 , 12 brings the two ordinances together round the cross of Christ which alone gives them meaning . |
17 | We sat at one of the two tables just beneath the dais . |
18 | As he laid the two pictures aside with the first one he felt that it was a farewell — a farewell to his youth , his youth and the greatest happiness that this youth had given him . |
19 | His opportunity to bring the two threads together as a writer came in the early 1980s through the radical London magazine City Limits — which also gave WCM regular Rob Steen his first break as a cricket-writer . |
20 | Pin , then slip-tack the two pieces together from the right side ( fig. 10 ) , making sure that the pattern does not move out of line . |
21 | Going back inside the house , the two staircases up to the first and second floors were dark as neither had windows , the only light available came from open bedroom doors . |
22 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
23 | How could the balance be restored without again taking the two balls out of the box ? |
24 | The current was taking the two boats down towards the rocks , so Harry Pascoe could n't afford to waste time . |
25 | The two tower alone in a dingy apartment but perhaps they are really inside a womb which has run short of amniotic fluids . |
26 | Expectations in the following week that the Libyan government might hand the two men over to the Arab League , and thus pre-empt the approval on March 31 of Resolution 748 , were disappointed . |
27 | The US White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater had meanwhile ( according to Le Monde of March 26 ) said that it would not be sufficient for Libya to hand the two men over to the Arab League ; Libya had to comply with all the demands that had been referred to in Resolution 731 [ see ICJ verdict below ] . |
28 | Carole laughed as she and Laura followed the two men back towards the house . |
29 | The doctor led the two men out of the small private room and into an office next door . |
30 | The dragonwoman had quite recovered her composure now , and looked levelly at Hrun as he threw the two men down on the steps before her . |