Example sentences of "two [pron] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For a second or two I stare at the words quite blankly .
2 Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy .
3 Of the relatively few exceptions to the pattern two which call for mention are Chicheley Hall , Buckinghamshire ( 1719–21 ) , and Sutton Scarsdale , Derbyshire ( begun 1724 ) : the exotic façade of the former probably owes more to the taste of the patron , Sir John Chester , than to Smith 's own devising ; but Sutton Scarsdale , in part evidently inspired by Gibbs 's unexecuted design of 1721 for the university buildings at Cambridge , is his finest work , a wholly convincing essay in the heroic grand manner , in which the giant Corinthian order is handled with total assurance .
4 Well you do dad 's two you give to him
5 Generation One you burn at the stake ; Generation Two you decorate with the CBE .
6 An ‘ A ’ level Chemistry set of 15 students may contain six whose performances in a trial exam six months before the end of the course suggests they are unlikely to pass , and another two who seem to be on the borderline .
7 When it was just your Dad and I we , we could go out all evening and then , then come back to the tent , but when we 've got you two we have to be back in the , we ca n't go out in the evenings .
8 In two species examined the crystals lie parallel to the surface and in another two they lie at a steep angle .
9 Swindon Town ended their dismal run of four defeats last night with a two nil win over Tranmere .
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