Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But two goals in two minutes midway through the half killed off the Dragons . |
| 2 | Three bombs were launched from improvised pipe mortars inside a van which had parked two minutes earlier on the corner of Horse Guards Avenue and Whitehall , around 200 metres from Downing Street . |
| 3 | It was nearly two hours yet to the start of the party , he 'd have plenty of time . |
| 4 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 5 | Additionally , because Acme made two copies instead of the one permitted under the licence agreement , it was in breach of that agreement and , depending on the terms in the licence dealing with breach , may find that the licence was brought to an end and that the purported transfer to Zenith is void . |
| 6 | The vicar had two sons much about the same age as my brother and myself , so we were often invited into the vicarage to play . |
| 7 | Then he was still two generations away from the throne . |
| 8 | When the referee talks to the two boxers just before the first round , each fighter stares closely and directly into the opponent 's eyes . |
| 9 | He and fellow residents have been persuaded , however , to install security lighting after two burglaries further up the road . |
| 10 | On February 19 we wrote of the chap round Carmel Road way who 'd installed security lighting after two burglaries further up the street . |
| 11 | The drop in production was blamed on two cyclones early in the year and on unfavourable climatic conditions later . |
| 12 | Even after repair works on the generators had been done , only two of them operated satisfactorily forcing the factory to work on only two shifts instead of the usual three . |
| 13 | Bryan Robson , doubtful for the World Cup match against Poland 24 hours ago , returned for United last night to cruise for 20 minutes before erupting into Captain Marvel , never shirking a tackle and being denied two goals only by the crossbar and a brilliant diving save from Alan Knight . |
| 14 | It was only the head of the diminutive Collins , clearing the ball off the line , which prevented Scotland from going two goals behind in the first minute of the second half , however . |
| 15 | He wrote to the victim 's family two months ago from the hospital , angering the victim 's family . |
| 16 | By the time the Master himself arrived in London to be examined in August 1669 , he had already been suspended for two months past by the Chancellor of the Archbishop of York until the controversy could be settled . |
| 17 | Two of these underwent a cholecystectomy and exploration of the bile duct 0.25 and two months respectively from the procedure . |
| 18 | We 've given them three hundred and sixty-four thousand pounds of extra funding , which we could legitimately have taken away as , particularly in the way that it was done , and as I understand it they er , revealed their V I P protection two months early to the Home Office , and therefore cut our S S A by a substantial amount , and I would even perhaps start that as a , as I could , as a series of criticisms about the way the police maintain their budget , and about the way that they have responded . |
| 19 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 20 | You are behind on the interest , Dr Bissett , and you are two months behind on the repayment … ’ |
| 21 | And , he reflected , the same innocence , the same near-perfect regularity of feature , was shared by Mertseger , who lay two paces away in the patience of death , awaiting her preparation for the Fields of Aarru . |
| 22 | With difficulty Li Yuan brought the Arab 's head round and moved the stubborn beast two paces closer to the watching T'ang . |
| 23 | She walked two paces backwards to the bed , only in her shirt , and tried to pull him on her as she fell . |
| 24 | As he laid the two pictures aside with the first one he felt that it was a farewell — a farewell to his youth , his youth and the greatest happiness that this youth had given him . |
| 25 | From within the arena of armchairs and sofa he had been mirroring her progress about the room , two steps forward to the drinks trolley where she placed her glass , four steps to her eight over to the window , three back on her way to the door again . |
| 26 | From the dry-out farm , Tunney had moved down to the border , mooched around in cantinas for a while , then left the country two steps ahead of the sheriff of some Rio Grande jerkwater . |
| 27 | DANCING for joy or dancing for fitness , pupils at a Darlington school are two steps ahead of the rest of the nation . |
| 28 | Guy took two steps away from the solar door and had to stop . |
| 29 | If they win the semi-final and final next month they will represent the town in the area finals and then be only two steps away from the Wembly final . |
| 30 | I then broke away because I saw two fighters above on the port side . |