Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A real beauty of a goal from Les Robinson … there 'll not be many better than that this season but it 's quantity rather than quality that counts and within two minutes it was one-all … |
| 32 | In one of the two cases we have considered — incest — the prohibition is paradoxically related to pre-cultural dispositions : it expresses their function , but not their content . |
| 33 | read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns . |
| 34 | In one of those two cases we 've had inheritance tax to pay . |
| 35 | Again I 'll mention the two cases I 'm dealing with where there 've been no wills and surviving spouses who are not getting anything . |
| 36 | First two cases I took were missing persons . |
| 37 | On the facts of the two cases it was unnecessary to decide whether , as argued by Mr. Jeffreys , the mere taking of the article from the shelf and putting it in a trolley or other receptacle amounted to the assumption of one of the rights of the owner , and hence an appropriation . |
| 38 | In two cases it 's very much a specific one off application , |
| 39 | As we descended it became increasingly hot , and in the space of two hours we had dropped from rolling grassy hills to a sandy , semi-desert plain . |
| 40 | ‘ In two hours we are at Pot'ma Transit . |
| 41 | For the next two hours we flew from tree to tree , grabbing onto creepers to break the fall to the next ancient branch , to land in a pile of ferns and fall on again faster . |
| 42 | After two hours we were dismissed upstairs , only to find our rooms wrecked again . |
| 43 | It was a good seven-hour jeep-lurch , even with Abu at the wheel , and for the last two hours we drove over a tyre-tearing track down a parched spit of land . |
| 44 | After a wait of about two hours we joined the long crocodile winding through corridors to the ballroom , with anxious ushers ensuring that we were all in the right order of presentation . |
| 45 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |
| 46 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 47 | For the past two hours they have provided part of the vital screen against the possibility of terrorist activity . |
| 48 | During that two hours they realised that they had much in common . |
| 49 | In two hours they ferried 22 people to high ground and to safety , and at 0900 they were released to return to the Portrush lifeboat which was still lying in Ballycastle Bay . |
| 50 | If they worked for if six men worked for two hours they 'd work |
| 51 | For two hours they made love , never leaving each other , even for the brief periods when they lay still , nibbling ears and lips gently ; always delaying the splendour until the last possible moment , and always achieving it together , gasping and roaring , moaning and crying , seven times . |
| 52 | For the next two hours they carried out what the sergeant-major described as ‘ drill ’ . |
| 53 | The child was allowed into the bedroom and for two hours she watched her father die . |
| 54 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 55 | Two hours she had lain there — two whole hours of torment . |
| 56 | For the next two hours she was absorbed in the film , which turned out to be as good as she had hoped . |
| 57 | For nearly two hours he worked his way through his agenda , more administration and finance today than scientific exploration . |
| 58 | Two hours he 'd have to wait . |
| 59 | For two hours he 'd have me swimming after a brush held in front of my nose , while he set the pace up and down the side of the baths . |
| 60 | In less than two hours he could be free , safe and looking forward to a future . |