Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another . |
| 2 | He maintained his strong links with the world of the deaf formed during his two years at the Institution by getting together with Matthew Burns , q.v. , and Alexander Blackwood to start Sunday services for the deaf of Edinburgh in June 1830 . |
| 3 | The association with Fahreddin Acemi of the only information in the Turkish sources about the activities of the early Muftis may well not be entirely coincidental , for in one very important respect he seems to have differed from his two predecessors in the traditional list , Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan , in that he appears not to have held a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , whereas Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan apparently both held the kadilik of Bursa at the same time as the Muftilik . |
| 4 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 5 | Her misery was made complete because she was separated from her two sons who were flying first class . |
| 6 | I think the inde independent corroboration for actuaries was another important factor , custody confirmation by the auditors , veto of transfer of assets , independent auditors for pension funds , independent custodian arrangements , in-house investment management , you made some comments , co-ordination of the various regulators , co-ordination of the professional advisers , establishment of the Pension Tribunal , you know now as far as I was concerned on on my sort of looking through it , those were all recommendations that that you have made over your two years and I could n't really find any response to those in Good , and I think that 's er you know we we personally found that disappointing . |
| 7 | I think the inde independent corroboration for actuaries was another important factor , custody confirmation by the auditors , veto of transfer of assets , independent auditors for pension funds , independent custodian arrangements , in-house investment management , you made some comments , co-ordination or the various regulators , co-ordination of the professional advisors , establishment of a pension tribunal , you know , now as far as I was concerned or on my sort of looking through it , those were all recommendations that , that you 've made over your two years and I could n't really find any response to those in Good and I think that 's a you know we , we personally found that disappointing . |
| 8 | The invaders assembled at Stornoway were now divided by a bitter quarrel over whether or not they should move on to the mainland , only ended when one of the Earl Marischal 's supposed subordinates , William Murray , Marquis of Tullibardine , suddenly produced a commission granted to him two years before by James which appointed him Commander-in-Chief of all his forces in Scotland . |
| 9 | The next morning the national papers continued to dig into the background of The Fox , especially his sex life as revealed by his two wives . |
| 10 | His well rounded performance ( in more ways than one ) established his rascally nature and was matched by his two henchmen Michael Hunt and Peter Walker . |
| 11 | Between the noise of the bloody guns and clouds of bloody mosquitoes buzzing around my head , all I 've had for my two hours is more mosquito lumps on my face , and I 'm more tired than ever. , Taff and I chatted while he sat on the floor of the trench smoking his cigarette . |
| 12 | Knives were drawn during his two years with PSV in Holland . |
| 13 | There was an initial suspicion that this poison had been ingested by our two patients . |
| 14 | Were we able to exhume the body of the Earl of Moira then we would see an example of John Hunter 's technique , as performed by his two assistants John Doratt and Everard Hone . |
| 15 | Norway 's suspicions were soon set aside , and the country joined with its two neighbours in setting up a Nordic Council in 1952 . |
| 16 | ZANY comedian Freddie Starr ( right ) , has called off his two concerts in Londonderry next month . |
| 17 | In 1469 , King Louis XI of France conferred with King Henry IV of Castile here ; in 1526 the captive King Francis I was exchanged for his two sons , who stood in for him as hostages with his great enemy , the Emperor Charles V ; in 1659 , the Peace of the Pyrenees between France and Spain was negotiated on the island ; and a year later , the contract of marriage was signed which consolidated that epoch-making treaty , between Louis XIV and the Infant a ( it was while helping to decorate the Spanish pavilion for the occasion that the painter Velázquez is said to have caught his death of cold ) . |
| 18 | And Fand did n't try to counter-attack , only parrying again and again with the shaft of her spear , gripped in her two hands . |
| 19 | Sewell 's perky and attractive character was always apparent and it was also demonstrated by his two pairs of First Division goals — scored , one may add , at a time when Palace goals were really at a premium . |
| 20 | She had brought with her two friends , Giselle and Rodney , also prize idiots . |
| 21 | His most recent summer holidays were spent with his two sons walking in the central Pyrenees : ‘ It was quite gruelling . ’ |
| 22 | I could n't bring myself to believe it , and after I had visited Cooper in Maidstone Prison and McMahon in Long Lartin Prison and spoken to their two solicitors , Gareth Peirce for Cooper and Wendy Mantle for McMahon , as well as to Tom Sargant , the secretary of JUSTICE , who had also taken up the case , I was convinced that they were as innocent of the Luton murder as I was . |
| 23 | She had been divorced by her two husbands , deserted by her last lover , and considered herself very virtuous because she neither drank nor smoked . |
| 24 | But its tone was really set by its two paintings : both nudes , girls in sunlit interiors , pinks , reds , greens , honeys , ambers ; all light , warmth , glowing like yellow fires with life , humanity , domesticity , sexuality , Mediterraneity . |
| 25 | Even if the catechisms of ‘ correct thought ’ are updated and find new roots , and old upbeat endings are set to more popular and contemporary tunes , they will not be able to generate the more intricate models or maps which are required to confront successfully the types of racism which are evidenced by our two transcripts . |
| 26 | Today Mrs Letts was accompanied by her two sons Martin and Stuart . |
| 27 | Today Mrs Letts was accompanied by her two sons Martin and Stuart . |
| 28 | In April 1905 , the wife of a lock-keeper in the canal near the Potomac River at Great Falls made a trip in her rowing boat across the river to the Virginia shore accompanied by her two dogs . |
| 29 | Crack German soccer squad sponsored by our two friends … |
| 30 | Each stetch was limited on its two sides by water-cuts or deep furrows that made easy the escape of surface water from the soil ; and in fact the main purpose of ploughing in stetches was — and still is , where stetches continue to be used — to ensure effective draining of the land . |