Example sentences of "two [noun] [adv] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the recovery crew arrived two hours later they found the capsule was filling with water from the seven foot swell . |
| 2 | As Edward VII , he took a major step in healing any rift between the two countries when he met the Czar during a trip to Russia in 1908 in an attempt to win his support against the German Kaiser . |
| 3 | Two years ago they bought the seafront house as a weekend retreat . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's thirty-six , extremely wealthy and two years ago he inherited the title . |
| 5 | Two years ago it slashed the gift to £24,000 in protest at the Tories ' high interest rate policy . |
| 6 | Two years later she passed the University of Cambridge Examination for Junior Students . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes — two years later she won the Gold Medal in the Olympics . |
| 8 | Two years later I saw the Giffens again . |
| 9 | In the Yeats memorial lecture in Dublin , for example , he talked about the theatre as a medium for " the expression of the consciousness of a people " and two years later he castigated the failure of most poetic drama to evoke the rhythms of " colloquial speech " ; he returned to this theme a year later when , in a preface to S. L. Bethell 's Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition , he described the language of poetic drama as the language which people " would speak today if they could speak in poetry " . |
| 10 | An outstanding sportsman , in 1936 he became Irish universities ' heavyweight boxing champion and two years later he received the first of six rugby international caps for Ireland , touring South Africa in 1938 with the British Lions . |
| 11 | Two years later he left the council . |
| 12 | Returning to his parents in Scarborough , he continued to train in hotel management until in 1925 he at last defied the family and enrolled as a drama student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London , where two years later he won the gold medal and was immediately given his start in the professional theatre by one of his teachers , the Russian director Theodore Komisarjevsky [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | Two years later he joined the BBC to help launch Radio 1 . |
| 14 | Two years later he bought the property ‘ out of love ’ from Verger for £280,000 , and promptly set about a £3m renovation that included a new restaurant , spacious kitchens employing 19 staff and 10 luxury bedroom suites affiliated to Relais et Châteaux . |
| 15 | Then in 1947 they threw a bomb at the Red Cross cinema and two days later they attacked the Cairo Haifa train . |
| 16 | Gravier 's brother made his identification on circumstantial evidence and it was n't until two days later he had the remains cremated and that occurred in Mexico City . |
| 17 | Two days later he won the Thompson Trophy at 252.7 mph . |
| 18 | Two days later I drove the BMW back to Winston Street and cleared my room . |
| 19 | Two days later I met the same lady and her sari had been stolen in the middle of the night . |
| 20 | On Aug. 20 the Moldavian government ruled these secession moves unconstitutional , and two days later it outlawed the Popular Front-style Gagauz Khalky ( People 's ) Movement . |
| 21 | The French recovered the lead but two laps later they tried the same move in the same place and there was a collision between the two boats . |
| 22 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 23 | Alfred Anderson lost touch with the two men when he left the island in 1959 . |
| 24 | Obviously with the coming of two elections shortly we have the opportunity to do a lot more canvassing and contact more members of the public and to draw in new members from there . |
| 25 | Two seasons ago he guided the club to the elusive league and championship double , but both in 1991 and 1992 success eluded him . |