Example sentences of "two men " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early 1991 AI received a letter directly from the two men . |
| 2 | On the boulder that lay against the rough stone stump of the Cross two men were standing , waving torn papers and conducting the crowd in a chorus of jeers . |
| 3 | Instinctively the two men were looking for faces that they knew — Mary McCulloch and her friends , big Mary as tall as a man , red-haired Flora . |
| 4 | Hope Steuart had felled a tree across the track , two men with cudgels were standing sentry behind it , they dropped the clubs and ran when the whole wood came at them , the darkness between the trees turned into people , people everywhere , herds and thickets of them surrounding the low tower-house . |
| 5 | He was also a disciple of Ezra Pound , more ( one suspects ) because Pound was ‘ the most controversial , dynamic and stimulating figure in modern literature , ’ than for personal rapport between the two men . |
| 6 | I went along there one afternoon and stuck my head round the door ; saw two men in the sort of office you 'd expect of solicitors — box files in neat rows and shelf upon shelf of law reports . |
| 7 | Janice took their orders while Gillian studied the two men . |
| 8 | Pretending to be worried about the painters and the incriminating evidence against them — ‘ It 's very , very important for them ! ’ — Porfiry asks Raskolnikov if he has any recollection of passing an open door on the lower landing and seeing two men at work inside . |
| 9 | And how different the tone of the two men and their two suicides ! |
| 10 | A BOY of 17 and two men in their twenties face execution in Burma for planting a bomb , but others involved in the crime say they took no part in it . |
| 11 | The two men then retired for goodwill talks , which one US official described as ‘ not negotiations ’ . |
| 12 | Neither of these two men can control with any certainty , however , the factor that will perhaps exert the most influence on the SPD 's election chances . |
| 13 | He has now been positively identified by detectives as one of two men who hijacked a police car when traffic patrol officers checked out a suspect van in Co Limerick three weeks ago . |
| 14 | Meetings between the two men lasted into Saturday night and continued at a religious service on Sunday . |
| 15 | According to sources close to Mr Mandela himself , the first two men out will be Wilton Mkwayi and Elias Motsoaledi , a very influential member of the ANC old guard with positions of leadership both in the union movement and in the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe . |
| 16 | The Home Office could not confirm reports that the two men set fire to themselves . |
| 17 | The two men , Emmanuel Christen and Elio Erriquez , were kidnapped by two masked gunmen only 300 yards from the Ein Helweh Palestinian camp , where the Red Cross runs an artificial limb centre . |
| 18 | Unless the two men kidnapped yesterday are speedily released , it will be difficult for Michel Dufour , the chief ICRC delegate in Lebanon , to avoid taking the same decision once again . |
| 19 | Shrewsbury Crown Court heard that the two men discussed no other topics and Browning , 36 , left . |
| 20 | The two men were arrested at a time of increasing student political activism , and a renewed government offensive against the supposed communist threat . |
| 21 | The two men were held in military custody , incommunicado , for some time and are believed to have been ill-treated . |
| 22 | One of the dances consisted of a mimed battle between two men . |
| 23 | A mechanic went to the car and saw two men beside it and a young woman inside . |
| 24 | Two men with cans of Guinness strapped to their baseball caps wore yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of the Leprechaun Society . |
| 25 | First Edition TWO MEN who fled after bungling a raid on a shop jumped into a getaway car only to find a policeman at the wheel . |
| 26 | Constable Dale Buckingham had just collected the car from the scene of the raid , in Bristol , and was taking it to his police station when he saw two men he suspected of being involved in the raid , and stopped . |
| 27 | Detectives named two men sought in connection with Clapham as Patrick Sheehy and John Conaghty , who are believed to have been the core of a cell of about five or six . |
| 28 | The two men were born in the same region , the Transkei , but whereas Mr Mandela was a distinguished personage of royal blood , Mr Sisulu came from an impoverished peasant family and engaged in politics as a consequence of his exposure to the daily indignities of life for blacks through his work in a dairy , a bakery , in mines and factories . |
| 29 | He said the two men attacked him with a tyre lever , hammer and a craft knife . |
| 30 | Officially what Knighton called ‘ the vilification ’ is over , the two men are friends and colleagues again . |