Example sentences of "they [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , we thought ( quite irrationally and knowing next to nothing about the Germans ) , even if they met two young girls cycling in the countryside , they would never suspect us of taking food and clothing to the English . |
| 2 | ‘ Yeah , well , just tell them they got two more days and then they get their boy back in a bag . |
| 3 | ah group three well they got two it depends on what their criteria is if it 's erm just listening a diary of events of what 's gone on |
| 4 | Er in the nineteen seventies and eighties there was a long running campaign to get an equal rights amendment er which was sponsored largely by er women 's groups and er and er gay and lesbian groups er and they got almost there , they got two , I think two states short of getting a constitutional amendment and then something called Ronald Reagan happened and it all sort of fell apart . |
| 5 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 6 | They got two or three millions dollars for it |
| 7 | Oh look at that one they got arrows an they got two arrows facing one another . |
| 8 | Well they got two kids now but the , it was then , you know ? |
| 9 | I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown . |
| 10 | They were beaten 2–0 at Ewood Park by play-off hopefuls Charlton on Saturday , and although they remain two points clear , the chasing pack is closing in . |
| 11 | They concerned two constituencies only miles apart , yet as sharply contrasting as any in the UK . |
| 12 | Boswell 's account says they rode two miles to the shore to find a herring-boat which would take them out to Raasay . |
| 13 | And so they made two provisions which make the situation rather different . |
| 14 | They passed two motor-cyclists who emitted no bleep , and two powerful motor-bikes overtook them , but the D/F they sought was still proceeding steadily ahead of them . |
| 15 | They passed two prosperous-looking farmsteads that had been abandoned completely . |
| 16 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 17 | In addition , they raise two further issues . |
| 18 | RUSTLERS will get the trots if they eat two stolen sheep that had just been given de-worming chemicals , Northumberland police warned . |
| 19 | Er er and that they sit two hours doing e and exam you know for somebody who can watch at all . |
| 20 | During this three-year period they applied two dressings of farmyard manure and in the intervening year they applied an indigenous legume crop as green manure . |
| 21 | Few students seem to be able to integrate their joint studies ; instead they read two , often incomplete , halves . |
| 22 | However , they make two important points . |
| 23 | Er , they reckon they grow two to three foot a year they 're the fast grow ones , once they get a hold , they start growing and they shoot up each week and when they start shooting up , that 's when , you 've got to keep them watered , and you 've got to feed them with that plant stuff do you know what I mean ? |
| 24 | Well that 's right cos they were thinking of erm , mind you they 've stop , they 've already parted and they stopped two days in and then |
| 25 | Why did they wait two days before making contact ? |
| 26 | erm and ask them you know and say , and if they want two years , say well you know I 'm pretty keen on this , now what , you know I necessarily expect you to have me |
| 27 | They want money , they want two pounds for the first lot which they 've had that and two pounds for that |
| 28 | And yet they want two eighty to rent one . |
| 29 | and they want two extra extensions you see in a certain area , we obviously do n't know that |
| 30 | They proposed two simplified theories — one for an incompressible solid , the other for an incompressible elastic fluid , which can be compared with experiment . |