Example sentences of "[verb] two thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want two things . |
| 2 | I want two things from an aeroplane : I want it to fly me up to the enemy , and then lie still while I shoot the enemy down . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That 's right and I want two things . |
| 4 | The point I am trying to make from all this is that to win a karate bout needs two things — your ability to defeat the opponent and the referee panel 's ability to recognise your superior performance . |
| 5 | A clearer remit needs two things : indication of purpose to make expectations more explicit and more specification of member roles , corporately and individually . |
| 6 | A good spreadsheet needs two things — plenty of memory and the ability to calculate quickly . |
| 7 | It moved two things which put it into operation , you know and er I could turn the knob and it 'd get the whole thing going , it 'd get you inside , it 'd register that it 'd been , when you shut the door , as soon as you shut , in the toilets , as soon as you shut the door the penny dropped down , see what I mean . |
| 8 | Certainly for cause and effect we do need two things , things that in the most fundamental sense are two in number . |
| 9 | In particular , one would expect to find two things . |
| 10 | And in the end she found two things . |
| 11 | We opened the cloth and found two things — a book and a paper . |
| 12 | This work demonstrated two things . |
| 13 | We believe in each case there actually occurred two things , the cause and the effect . |
| 14 | The program accomplishes two things — ‘ blind ’ set-up , i.e. without needing to display an image , and control of the measuring process . |
| 15 | THE restaurant industry has two things in common with the film industry : the high failure rate among its small businesses and the abundance of ‘ how to ’ wisdom . |
| 16 | I would like to know two things : ( 1 ) What you think of the way I have handled him ? ( 2 ) Is he entitled to a loving relationship with another woman ? |
| 17 | I want to know two things from you . |
| 18 | My medical eye noticed two things immediately : there were virtually no flies near the children playing on the beach ; and the dog lying down was no scrawny , starving mongrel . |
| 19 | I think that that will ensure two things : first , greater equality of action across the Community ; and , secondly , to a greater degree than ever before that every nation that signs up to a directive considers in detail the implications and costs of that directive before it becomes law . |
| 20 | About this God Paul says two things : on the one hand , ‘ He ’ is ‘ the God who made the world and everything in it ’ , who ‘ does not live in shrines made by man ’ ( 17:24 ) ; on the other hand , ‘ He ’ is not far from each one of us , for ‘ in Him we live and move and have our being ’ ( 17:27–8 ) . |
| 21 | This plea will succeed where he can show two things : ( i ) that he was radically mistaken about the nature or effect of the document ( ii ) that he was not careless in signing it , Saunders v. Anglian Building Society . |
| 22 | In practice the employer must show two things : ( a ) the existence of trade connections which are to an extent " special " to him ; and ( b ) that the employee is or will be in a position to take advantage of those special trade connections . |
| 23 | Oh and they show two things so y you 'll have to see if there 's any correlation between the two is there any correlation between rainfall and temperature , and is there ? |
| 24 | Root definitions can be used to define two things that are otherwise both vague and difficult . |
| 25 | This actually tests two things , the capabilities of the software itself and those of the dealer trying to sell it to you . |
| 26 | I only want to tackle two things . |
| 27 | Getting rid of him achieves two things . |
| 28 | You 've said two things about him . |
| 29 | We must do two things together ( Cameron found his thoughts concentrating to a point at last ) . |
| 30 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |