Example sentences of "two [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or sixty two rather but his father lived until he was eighty six and his father was the District Goods and Passenger Manager at Cambridge and er later on , of course , er when he was old enough , he , he was in the same office as his father was but not the same position , you see , but he was a clerk , a railway clerk , and his brother was Stationmaster of Colchester and his grandfather was also a Stationmaster and that would be in Queen Victoria 's reign when , when railways first began and then again , you see , in those first days , you see , when there were highwaymen and that sort of thing erm signalmen , signalmen were issued with a truncheon for their own safety , you see , and I 've got one . |
| 2 | I disliked these two intensely and did n't like being told off for being rude to them , so I told her peevishly that I was n't staying while they were there and kicked off the slippers , put on my clogs and ran out banging the door behind me . |
| 3 | But they 're they were all kind ladies and er the thing that they punished us with really was made of cardboard , like er , er a pointer or a stick , it was a pointer that they pointed to the board when they drew things on and told us about them , but sometimes boys By the way , boy sat with girl , at the desk with two in and er it was quite satisfactory , I do n't remember any other upset with being there th th th there were two sexes , we were five years of age to begin with and stayed till seven . |
| 4 | We 'd got two in and they was really first class . |
| 5 | there 's hardly enough for two in and then she has to do another two only , only she ca n't pour it in after it 's . |
| 6 | To be correct , the double-breasted coat must have six buttons — two placed at the waist , two below and two above . |
| 7 | Anne had to leave for work for two o'clock but she proudly displayed her ring to her friends and they all sincerely wished her happiness . |
| 8 | I 've heard bottles rattling early in the morning but I , sort of one o'clock , two o'clock but I had n't |
| 9 | Well , you see you finish in the morning about half past , half past twelve we used to , cos no sooner you get your dinner and had a drink , you had to be back again two o'clock or half past two to start on 'em again , you see , |
| 10 | Well the main squad would come in about two o'clock or three o'clock and er was already for them to start working . |
| 11 | Oh , he said , two o'clock or when we get done . |
| 12 | In due course the parents are relieved when he begins to ‘ miss ’ his two o'clock and then his six o'clock feeds . |
| 13 | Their name is derived from the ‘ all quiet ’ or ‘ all 's well , cry ( ‘ sereno ’ ) that the men used to give after calling the hours , just like our old English tradition — ‘ Two o'clock and all 's well ’ — which has unfortunately died out . |
| 14 | Say , any time between two o'clock and six . ’ |
| 15 | It was nearly two o'clock and there were few soldiers drinking the hot soup and ersatz coffee . |
| 16 | How many women want to sit down at two o'clock and give an hour and a half of their attention to a play of any sort whatsoever , let alone one about the life of somebody who collects Irish folk ballads ? |
| 17 | It was nearing two o'clock and Annie McCafferty paused as she put on her coat in the back room of the cafe . |
| 18 | But between two o'clock and three-thirty , Flora took a nap . |
| 19 | All the different schools had er cos then we had , used to compete against er all sports and we used to get an afternoon football we used to march from up to the and erm play football but we did n't go up there until at half-time at erm play-time so they went to school at two o'clock and at half past three then that 'd be our break , then we 'd go up to erm football till five o'clock . |
| 20 | The motion having been made after half-past Two o'clock and the debate having continued for half an hour , Mr. Deputy Speaker — adjourned the House without Question put , pursuant to the Standing Order . |
| 21 | It 's nearly two o'clock and he has had no lunch . |
| 22 | Cos you 've got one more role play to do erm at your syndicate groups so do n't come here , go straight to your rooms , but start at two o'clock and then back here at five to three . |
| 23 | Say to Jill , yes you could go over with her at two o'clock and then come back with her about four . |
| 24 | Two o'clock and I always used to leave work and take him out for an hour . |
| 25 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 26 | just one other cricket match , again I said in Hertfordshire , this one 's at Ashwall near Baldock , and their cricket club 's long way ahead in fact , but it 's erm , twenty first September , but we sha n't have time to talk about it before two o'clock and it 's in aid of the garden hospice at Letchworth , a very worthy cause that , and John Emburey 's taking a , a Middlesex eleven against the Cherubs who are the local team , John runs them down there , so that er , that is at Ashwall , two o'clock start twenty first September , have a look at John Emburey and his Middlesex eleven , all in a good , good cause , and the Cherubs watch them as well . |
| 27 | Thursday the eleventh of November , matinee performance , starting at two o'clock and the tickets are five pounds . |
| 28 | The necessary points came in the shape of three halved games , with Andrew Hare recovering from two down with two to play and Jim Milligan , playing Jay Sigel in the anchor match , was two down and three to play . |
| 29 | It may settle the other two down and prevent one individual from being continually picked on . |
| 30 | For the Wallabies it is case of ‘ two down and four to go ’ — three tests against New Zealand and one against South Africa . |