Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pressed her forehead against the cool glass and for two minutes she did not move . |
| 2 | That 's the longest two minutes I 've ever seen . |
| 3 | And also had interest last week about two minutes I sat down I was just sitting comfortable |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For the next two hours they carried out what the sergeant-major described as ‘ drill ’ . |
| 6 | Individual teachers and researchers will , of course , form their own conclusions from the available evidence , backed up by their own experience ; conclusions which could put this particular ‘ explanation ’ into either of the two groups I described above . |
| 7 | Regular or prolonged contact between two groups who speak mutually unintelligible languages may result in the formation of a pidgin — a language which is nobody 's native language but serves as a means of communication for a limited range of purposes related to the contact situation . |
| 8 | If anyone is to go it should be Whyte and Fairclough , the two defenders who contributed so much to Leeds downfall in 1992–3 . |
| 9 | Gerard Brett , wounded in both legs , had been dragged to the protection of a low wall before his team slipped across the caisson , killing two Germans who appeared out of the gloom on the east side . |
| 10 | ‘ A Hollywood movie about two cops who do n't get along at first but are thrown together on a case involving drugs , foreigners , lots of fights and guns and which ends up with them respecting each other and winning . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it was the British navy which pioneered the two inventions which did most to increase the efficiency of eighteenth-century men-of-war . |
| 12 | Or indeed they could be heading for the two peaks we had just thrashed . |
| 13 | You know the only two songs I have n't heard that er that I know exist of theirs are Prince and . |
| 14 | The two subjects who slept little to start with did not achieve any such permanent reduction in sleep . |
| 15 | Yeah but what , I I remembered you saying that erm there 's two subjects you do n't row on and that 's erm religion and politics ! |
| 16 | After two months we have n't said we wo n't talk . |
| 17 | For nearly two months they raided all over Keppoch , Moydart , Ardnamurchan , up into Cameron country . |
| 18 | Over the next two months I stripped out my stereo and taught myself to re-fit it from scratch following various manuals and the original wiring installation . |
| 19 | At first I did n't mind doing it , but after two months I found out he had quite a few women . |
| 20 | In two months he spoke only 26 sentences to his lonely wife Susanne . |
| 21 | After two months he gave in . |
| 22 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 23 | The U.S.A. trip was wonderfully reminiscent too … mainly for the two brothers who travelled up & down Memory Lane every hour of every three week day . |
| 24 | In the last two centuries it has also been a source of scholarly controversy amongst historians , theologians and philosophers . |
| 25 | For most of the world 's people , the 20 years from 1970 to 1990 can be broadly divided into two halves — two pictures which tell very different stories . |
| 26 | Research with split-brain patients ( Levy and Trevarthen , 1976 ) , supported by results from normal subjects ( Landis , Assal and Perret , 1979 ) , suggests that the left hemisphere matches stimuli on a conceptual basis ( for example , a picture of a knife and fork " goes with " a picture of food ) while the right hemisphere matches on a structural basis ( that is two pictures which look physically similar will be matched ) . |
| 27 | A considerable amount of time was spent in assessing the answers to the two questionnaires you filled in during the year ; the proposed programme reflects your wishes . |
| 28 | The two rods I piece together are rather special to me . |
| 29 | So you you will accept for number two just the two words you do n't want a sentence ? |
| 30 | Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes play off against each other in a comedic buddy movie about two hustlers who team up to cream money off LA 's kerb-side courts , only to run up against problems with girls ( Rosie Perez , Tyra Ferrell ) and gangsters . |