Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After him came two men in yellow raincoats with their hands behind their backs , and then two other men in white with guns . |
| 2 | Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience , all of whom shared two characteristics . |
| 3 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 4 | At this point , having reached the end of the ‘ second sentence ’ , we can confirm that all the conventional classical music examined seems to be built in sentences , each of which comprises two phrases of the ‘ question and answer ’ type . |
| 5 | The cat bit her , leaving two wounds in her hand , one of which needed two stitches , and then shot downstairs , disappearing through an open window . |
| 6 | Although there are only 15 contractors , they have between them 50-odd transmitters , each of which needs two copies of the commercial ( at least ) , so allowing for your own copies and back-up stock , you will need 115 or so bulks for a national campaign . |
| 7 | It must have helped both of you to have two galleries on one site ? |
| 8 | Getting rid of him achieves two things . |
| 9 | In front of him sat two folders . |
| 10 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 11 | Part of it includes two bypasses north of Oxford . |
| 12 | The dogmas of his consubstantiality with the Father and of his possessing two natures in one person , can only mislead us if they are taken as objective , factual descriptions of the constitution of his being . |
| 13 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 14 | He turned his head and walked towards a flight of shallow steps above which jutted two triangles of red granite . |
| 15 | In the centre of the room stood an extremely well-tended brazier before which sat two men in low conversation with broke off as the door opened . |
| 16 | He was looking for space in which to dump two sacks of garden fertiliser . |
| 17 | One morning a policeman while out on his beat , examined some rubbish from which poked two feet . |
| 18 | In it stand two heroes playing the lyre ( one no doubt Orpheus ; a third figure is lost ) , and at either end , outside the ship , a horseman , the Dioscuri again : and all these figures are absolutely frontal like statues . |
| 19 | Inside , it was lit by a single bulb wrapped round with a brown-paper shade and furnished with three wooden chairs and a counter on which stood two telephones and a litter of timetables and pads . |
| 20 | At one end there was a green-glazed tile stove under a mantelpiece on which stood two bronzes , both modern . |
| 21 | Near the fireplace a table had been installed , and on it placed two bottles . |
| 22 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |
| 23 | Actually , I always wanted to write a play about how life gets so tedious that we start reminiscing about what happened two minutes ago . |
| 24 | There are two things that we have to look at I need two references |
| 25 | ‘ I am delighted to record that the Group 's recovery has been sufficiently strong for us to undertake two acquisitions during the year , Sekers and Mercia Carpets ’ . |
| 26 | Around him swooped two hoopoes . |