Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] two " in BNC.

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1 Watching me wind two strands together on the cone winder he exclaimed ‘ Ah , now I know what ‘ k 2 tog ’ means ! ’
2 But , in reply , let me make two fundamental points which , I think , make the original question far from otiose and the answer to it anything but platitudinous .
3 This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace .
4 Re-reading the Editorial Edict I see I am allowed , if necessary , to stretch my budget to ( say ) £275 , which would enable me to acquire two or three nice pieces .
5 You can also use them to compare two similar groups or to follow one group through a period of time and observe any change in attitude .
6 The flat roof of our own house was high enough for me to see two summer screens for free .
7 I ca n't see them keeping two stores on .
8 Well you either left the line for me to try two or three mixes for custom purposes .
9 There I became two people — one who watched and one who tried to forget that the other watched .
10 May I make two points in reply to the hon. Gentleman ?
11 Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in .
12 As a child I overheard two women talking .
13 Do I want two year old triplets at fifty three ?
14 I read two a day for two years and forgot them .
15 I mean The Sun is absolutely I mean I did tr have a go at reading the first one and I thought well I ca n't read this trash any longer , think I read two pages .
16 I made two ruler from Tufnol ( 24x1–1/2x1/2in ) , then joined them with two brass strips , allowing about 1 in of play between the rulers .
17 I made two attempts but they both failed , each time my fear of water proved too much .
18 I made two more visits to Knowlton , and it has now become a focus for my own particular pilgrimage .
19 E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns .
20 I made two attempts .
21 By which I mean two things .
22 Yeah I mean two things .
23 You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ?
24 Surely its relative , I mean two thousand pounds to you might be quite a lot of money , but to someone else , its , its not a big deal .
25 I mean two teachers come back and one of them says , Well I 've counted all those who are going to Whitby .
26 Erm I , I ca n't say that we sold a lot of them I , I , and I have n't seen a lot about at all , er it 's a very good idea I mean two , there 's mainly two different types , one that was held up by pins which was , was quite good er and erm and there was another one which was held up by erm a pin which ran , which the flex ran through , a stud rather than a , a pin and er two little black legs on it , was very good .
27 I mean if that does , er er , I mean Two Unlimited ought to do alright .
28 I mean two makes my water boiling .
29 I mean two more .
30 Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report .
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