Example sentences of "two [noun] [adv] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two hours later they pushed their way out from the cover of the trees into a tiny clearing no more than a handful of yards across . |
| 2 | When the recovery crew arrived two hours later they found the capsule was filling with water from the seven foot swell . |
| 3 | ‘ You see , two centuries ago they had electricity — but in order to make it they had to burn non-renewable resources and endanger people with fission systems . |
| 4 | The rebellion of the American colonies in the eighteenth century confronted the British with an axiom which , for reasons which are capable of being understood , they found so unpleasant that more than two centuries later they have still not ceased attempting to wish it out of existence . |
| 5 | Only two weeks ago they complained they could not afford to fund the teachers ’ pay award . ’ |
| 6 | For them it 's the latest … possbily the last great mountain challenge … three years ago they reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro … two years ago they made for Mont Blanc and the Alps … |
| 7 | Two years ago they play it , everybody stands up . |
| 8 | Two years ago they bought the seafront house as a weekend retreat . |
| 9 | They lived together for four years , and then two years ago they broke up . |
| 10 | Two years later they married , with Jane still based at Gombe while he kept his home and work in Dar es Salaam . |
| 11 | Although it 's two years later they 've got to resell at the price that er it 's been discounted more or less . |
| 12 | Two years later they moved to Alfoxden , Somerset , in order to be near Coleridge at Nether Stowey , and there she met Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt [ qq.v . ] . |
| 13 | Two years later they bought another one , this time a brown standard poodle so they were company for each other . |
| 14 | Since that afternoon two days ago they 'd treated each other with a cool formality , a style initiated by Roman on the return trip from the Blue Grotto , when he 'd seemed to withdraw into a kind of amused reserve , as if he 'd tested her out in some way and now lost interest in the original conquest . |
| 15 | Two days ago they said she had not been assaulted . |
| 16 | Two days ago they had arrived at Palma airport , Steve elated at the prospect of a couple of weeks ' work in his own special paradise place on earth and Ruth stuffed with foreboding . |
| 17 | I had been in hospital for about two days when they told me my tumour was malignant . |
| 18 | ‘ I hit my head on the kerb when I fell and when I went to hospital two days later they told me I had severe bruising of the brain , ’ said Walter after his Kempton win on Mithl Al Hawa . |
| 19 | Then in 1947 they threw a bomb at the Red Cross cinema and two days later they attacked the Cairo Haifa train . |
| 20 | And then you 've consulted somebody else and if the say no go ahead and sell the shares and if two days later they 've gone through the roof it 's unfortunate . |
| 21 | Two days later they drew 14–14 , after leading 14–7 at half-time in a strength sapping 90°F , with Languedoc/Roussillon Select U21 based on Béziers and Narbonne . |
| 22 | Two days later they called me back and said that I could n't go back to Jamaica , but offered me a place in the group going to Thailand , which was leaving in February . |
| 23 | Two days later they phoned up to confirm that the cheque had arrived and congratulated me . |
| 24 | Mulloney ( 1969 ) has shown that these muscles are activated by a motor neuron in the thorax which in turn is driven by two interneurons in they brain , from which descending paths synapse with the motor neurons in the thorax . |
| 25 | The French recovered the lead but two laps later they tried the same move in the same place and there was a collision between the two boats . |
| 26 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 27 | they came up to you if there 's two women together they assume that they have the right to talk to you , that you 're going to be interested in them , and if you tell them to get lost however politely , you can get a very , very unpleasant response because they assume that what they have to say is more important ! |
| 28 | Two beers later they shake on the deal and stagger out of the Captain 's Cabin . |