Example sentences of "two [noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Two blackbirds sang against each other across a territory boundary .
2 In the slightly embarrassed silence that lasted while the two groups stared at each other through the wire , there were occasional calls of recognition .
3 For about five seconds the two groups stood regarding each other .
4 In the second two pairs devoted to this relationship the same pattern emerges .
5 The two gentlemen looked at each other , then turned away from the house and walked on .
6 And it was as I was standing like that , in the shadows some distance from where the two gentlemen sat amidst those rows of empty chairs , that I heard Lord Darlington talk about Herr Bremann , his voice as calm and gentle as usual , somehow resounding with intensity around those great walls .
7 The two cars slammed into each other several times as they sped along a quiet tree-lined avenue before the youths finally forced her into a garden .
8 Two imperatives flowed from this perspective .
9 Unlike the November general election when the BJP and the Janata Dal ( the main component of the National Front ) had generally agreed on seat adjustments in the Congress heartlands , the two parties competed against each other in many of the February state elections , often creating a three-cornered contest .
10 A systematic search for the pair of NTPs that led to the formation of stable initiated complexes ( to be shown and discussed below ) indicated that only the simultaneous presence of GTP and UTP could give rise to stable complexes , indicating that these were the first two NTPs incorporated at both promoters .
11 They knew , for example , that in the Coniston Mines where a fault ran into a vein there might be a bunch , or a general enrichment , particularly if two veins ran into each other .
12 The version Cranko first appears in 1850 , but the two versions competed with each other at least until the end of the decade .
13 The reviewers of the 1807 Poems in Two Volumes disagreed with these principles .
14 This means a shed full of aquariums and two ponds interconnected with each other with a total water capacity of around 2000 gallons .
15 According to an Amal statement two people died in this attack , including the group 's local deputy commander , Mahmud Haydar .
16 And two years ago , there were calls for coach seat belts after two people died in this crash on the A40 near Oxford .
17 But it was to burn again in the candlelit drawing-room where the two sisters sat opposite each other after supper in a warm red glow of port , firelight and reflections from the red velvet curtains drawn against night air .
18 Although that struggle brought about changes in the formal relationship between the press and politicians , it did not fundamentally alter the natural attraction that these two spheres had for each other .
19 The two mums smiled at each other as Stuart and Linda raced off down the aisle .
20 The two girls looked at each other , as if they were searching for the similarities .
21 In silence the two craft coasted alongside each other ; they were very close .
22 The two men looked at each other .
23 The two men looked at each other , the senior officer accepting that Duncan was about to enter a more serious and dangerous assignment , whatever it was .
24 The two men looked at each other quizzically , then Duncan handed the pictures back to the policeman and stood up .
25 The other two men looked at each other .
26 The two men looked at each other for a moment , no doubt exchanging of those wordless communications that women contrive now and then .
27 The two men looked at each other , then turned and left the courtyard without a word .
28 The two men looked at each other aghast .
29 The two men looked at each other in silence .
30 The two men stared at each other .
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