Example sentences of "[was/were] two [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There were two of them , ’ she said , ‘ both men , one of them was white , the other was probably a Pakistani . |
| 2 | Forty years ago , one of De Gaulle 's greatest admirers , the writer , Franois Mauriac , summed up typical French distrust after nearly a century of conflict by saying that he loved Germany so much that he was glad there were two of them . |
| 3 | There were two of them but one stayed silent . |
| 4 | There were two of them , and themselves they looked young and harmless ( which probably meant they were n't either , but Doyle was satisfied to judge by appearances today ) . |
| 5 | There were two of them and she knew instantly , and with absolute certainty , that they were dead . |
| 6 | There were two of them , two men . |
| 7 | ‘ There were two of them . |
| 8 | The kings ( there were two of them ) were exposed to the standard temptations of autocratic power without the constitutional invulnerability which such power generally confers : men like Kleomenes I and Pausanias the Regent were statesmen of stature , and the hostile literary tradition should be adjusted accordingly ; but their private tastes and temperaments certainly helped cause their fall , if only by giving ammunition to their critics . |
| 9 | Dennis Lloyd and I were two of them , and the third was Desmond ( now Lord ) Plummer , who was an estate agent and surveyor and an expert on rent restriction . |
| 10 | No doubt the privies , there were two of them , were much appreciated by the tenants , but one wonders how they managed for the previous two or three years . |
| 11 | She only needed an evening gown like the one Dana wore in the magazine picture and no one would believe there were two of them . |
| 12 | There were two of them , remember ? ’ |
| 13 | I did n't realise there were two of them . ’ |
| 14 | But what on earth made you think there were two of them ? |
| 15 | There were two of them , blue , belonging to the Swiss police . |
| 16 | There were two of them . |
| 17 | Just because there were two of them and they had a knife at my ear , they thought I was their prisoner . |
| 18 | ‘ There were two of them in your garden when I came to see you yesterday . |
| 19 | ‘ I always knew there were two of them in it , ’ he said aloud . |
| 20 | There were two of them crowing their heads off ! |
| 21 | unless they yeah they could do , there were two of them |
| 22 | There was two of them and they used to go all day at the quarry for to get bring the slates down to . |
| 23 | There was two of them w wi with a Range Rover the other morning er with all sorts of notices and the following morning they had a motorcyclist er hidden behind the hedge as it were er that seemed to obviously put things right for a couple of days . |
| 24 | She used to be in the window and her sister , and I ca n't remember her sister 's name , there was two of them , they , they used to do . |
| 25 | there was two of them |
| 26 | That was two of them but |
| 27 | There was two of 'em chattin' away outside my winder the ovver day . |