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 .
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