Example sentences of "two [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stuffed it hastily back , afraid someone had seen him reading it , and took ‘ To Mother Dear ’ and his two shillings up to the counter . |
| 2 | He stuffs his pistol into the top of his trousers , tilts one of the two heavies back onto the rear chairlegs and drags him out the door , clumping down the steps to the gloom outside . |
| 3 | As it is , a penalty kick at goal can take up to two minutes out of the match . |
| 4 | Then he put his two cases down inside the door . |
| 5 | And we had er two hours off during the day , er and twenty minutes for dinner and er about twenty minutes for tea . |
| 6 | Indeed I believe there 's a distinct possibility , that the force of persuasion in my arguments will bring the other two groups over to the Conservative point of view . |
| 7 | Then , after a while without having stolen anything , they 'll leave , pausing only to stick two fingers up at the store detective on the way out , ’ he says . |
| 8 | It ca n't end like this — you and the TARDIS , fighting the monsters , putting two fingers up to the Master . |
| 9 | As you straighten your hand the band will jump from the first two fingers on to the third and fourth ones . |
| 10 | and then do your other half of knot , reef knot and tuck it in straight away , you get your pin ready , have it on , either on the table or ready like that , now if you 've got too much material ever you just fold that down , there , if that 's too much , which is n't too much with Denise because it 's the right size sling , sometimes you have to improvise and then you fold if forward and back , firmly , take the pin and put it , put your two fingers down between the casualty so that your fingers are apart and there 's a space between your fingers so you can stick the pin in and out again without any danger , if you put the fingers apart like that , if you do stick the pin in yourself and draw blood would you please throw the pin away , as a matter of automatic hygiene , it must n't be used again once it 's been stuck into somebody |
| 11 | There are two roads up to the col , the more beautiful being the corniche road leading out of Men dive ; the other starts up from Béhorléguy . |
| 12 | Opposite her were two steps up to the baize door separating the kitchen quarters from the house . |
| 13 | All the Met Waafs at Bourn had by this time qualified for their ‘ props ’ , so we were two steps up from the bottom of the ladder and that 's where we stopped . |
| 14 | I 've seen the movie , too — Rainbow and I watched it together , in Hampstead , on an Old Weepies double bill : the ageless heroine walks two steps out of the enchanted valley of Shangri-La and time 's ravages hit her all at once . |
| 15 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 16 | The shop was well below pavement level for there were two steps down inside the door . |
| 17 | A customer could , therefore , ring round the booths seeking preliminary quotes , before going through the form of putting two traders out into the pit to effect the execution . |
| 18 | Tenderly , he put the smaller of his two tortoises down on the floor . |
| 19 | His head cleared at his second , where he thrashed two drivers on to the green , while he went to two under for the day at his fifth , the short 14th , where he hit a seven-iron to 7ft . |
| 20 | Tony limped along with his tripod sticking two feet out of the top of his rucsac to protect his head . |
| 21 | ‘ Next , ’ said Amaranth , who had let drop the first two scarves on to the heads of the assembled press men , ‘ we have Gerald Kaufman , all vinegar and no chips . ’ |
| 22 | He then took two bottles out with the same result . |
| 23 | The current was taking the two boats down towards the rocks , so Harry Pascoe could n't afford to waste time . |
| 24 | Possible options are shown by two films in At The Edge Of The World , a season of weird stuff from the US film and video underground currently on regional tour . |
| 25 | After two weeks out in the desert it was time to take stock . |
| 26 | At £1,622 million , the May figure was less than two percent down on the April total of £1,651 million . |
| 27 | How could the balance be restored without again taking the two balls out of the box ? |
| 28 | After two years out of the limelight , the 31-year-old comic is bouncing back with his new film , Boomerang |
| 29 | ‘ I came back after two years out of the ring because boxing 's in my blood and because I feel I can win the title . |
| 30 | Going back inside the house , the two staircases up to the first and second floors were dark as neither had windows , the only light available came from open bedroom doors . |