Example sentences of "two of [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had always written off their mother 's manoeuvres as tribal tactics devised to keep the two of them for her kind , with their father as some sort of lower ally in the endeavour , more deeply absorbed by his autonomy and his cigars than by the dynamics of living with his wife . |
| 2 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 3 | Mortimer almost ran headlong into a patrol of Germans as he traversed a long gallery , but the Germans were hampered by uncocked weapons , and Mortimer downed two of them with his Browning before ducking behind a turn in the wall , his men loosing a volley of rifle fire into the surviving guards . |
| 4 | These preference shares were allotted to the relations of the respondent and his wife and two of them to their children in consideration of a payment of £10 each in cash . |
| 5 | He invited the two of them to his flat for tea or dinner , a practically unheard of thing . |
| 6 | There had been a record of only three complains — two of them from his wife Jane , who administers the BPCC-sponsored competition . |
| 7 | Students take units from three of these courses in their first year , and from two of them in their second year . |
| 8 | They will now be classed by UEFA as ‘ assimilated ’ — and United can choose two of them in their squad to face Russian side Moscow Torpedo in the UEFA Cup first round clash later this month . |
| 9 | ‘ There were two of them in your garden when I came to see you yesterday . |
| 10 | If you could also supply a photo or two of you in your trunks on the beach , I would be even more grateful ! |