Example sentences of "two of they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Together or separately , the two of them may hold the key to power after the election .
2 Two of them may fall to Labor .
3 One or two of them may grab your arms while a third gets ready to hit you from the front .
4 Mike Pumfrey had wondered whether the two of them might sit and talk things over in the two easy chairs stained , dusty , pre-war relics , that squatted capaciously in the far corner of the study .
5 The easy , informed arguments they had about the Kesselring case proved him wrong : as they talked , the two of them might have been no more than friendly colleagues .
6 Anyone looking at the two of them would think that they were lovers .
7 Then , in the car , the two of them would sing nonsensical songs , made up from Yiddish slang , at the tops of their voices and talk gibberish — childish , therapeutic , playful gibberish .
8 Then , unerringly , he found his way to Modigliani , wherever he was , and the two of them would drink the night away until they were unconscious , taken to the police station and beaten up .
9 response at our end , and as as I said , I know that person , three particular incidences which were good incidences to report two of them would 've certainly resulted in arrests , and they got an absolutely negative reply .
10 And the two of them would discuss , with some enthusiasm , where Donald could have acquired this information .
11 Sometimes , before their numbers were made up , one or two of them would come to the edge of Steep Ridgery and look gloomily out over the sea of greenery as though wondering whether they dared set out without waiting longer .
12 Another two of them will do me then .
13 Occasionally , one or two of them will leave their cars and climb higher , almost as far as the winter shelters .
14 Afterwards , the session 's duties are divided out between the companies , two of them will stay behind to muck out , clean tack etc , while the other two ride over to nearby Bushey Park , where the Horse Rangers have a small schooling area .
15 There can be more than two colours in the pattern , but only two of them will appear on any particular row .
16 There will be one or two at the margins where we have to look at our priorities and one or two of them will have to be reassessed .
17 Past experience suggests that one or two of them will come to rest in the belly of a fox , and of those that survive several , I fear , will turn out to be cockerels .
18 Soon the three members of Right Said Fred will put on their pop faces , two of them will put on their unplugged guitars , and they will walk along a corridor , down some stairs , into a colourfully-lit plastic cave that is part of the set for the children 's TV programme Parallel 9 .
19 Two of them could handle it but the other one …
20 The dacha was owned by a doctor who , Vasili reasoned , would be able to snap Lena out of her trance ; then the two of them could set off for Tula on the banks of the River Don where they would lie low until , with time , the investigation wound down .
21 When it was positioned as well as the two of them could manage , Masklin let the hatch open .
22 Julia heard the name ‘ Jonathan ’ , but she made a determined effort not to translate the Italian words , knowing how much the two of them must need privacy .
23 She 'll want at least another three watch-keepers , and preferably two of them must understand celestial navigation .
24 The final plan , as it is adapted and developed by Lorestan , has less of a boy 's melodrama in it but it is the Rat 's plan , and it is the Rat who advises Marco to pose as a poor , insignificant boy so that the two of them can reach Samavia without attracting attention .
25 So they want us to go around at half past one or the two of them can start cos we 've got an addition .
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