Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lost so much weight that he wore two suits , one on top of the other , because he despised the sign of toll . |
| 2 | when Moore says he knows such and such [ for instance that he has two hands : JD ] he is really enumerating a lot of empirical propositions which we affirm without special testing ; propositions , that is , which have a peculiar logical role in the system of our empirical propositions . |
| 3 | By mid-September there were some 150,000 US military and support personnel in the region , but on Sept. 13 the senior US commander in the Gulf , Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf , dampened the growing speculation about a possible move on to the offensive in mid-October , expressing the opinion that he needed two months to bring the forces up to strength . |
| 4 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 5 | John Johnson said in evidence that he heard two shots and saw the defendant 's car reverse and then drive away from the scene ‘ like a jet . ’ |
| 6 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 7 | But there can be little doubt that he had two causes in mind , and great probability that he had also a third . |
| 8 | It is , however , certain that Molla Fenari was in Karaman at a date much later than Bayezid I 's reign , as will be shown ; and as there is no evidence to suggest a journey before 800/1397 or to support the possibility that he made two journeys to Karaman , it seems justifiable to treat the Taskopruzade story with some caution . |
| 9 | Where is your proof that I garrotted two men , not to mention an old woman , in London ? |
| 10 | These powers are due to the fact that we have two ears , separated by about 20 centimetres of acoustically dead grey matter . |
| 11 | Contrary to popular myth , many men can remember those small but important details about the women in their lives , such as their birthday and the fact that they have two eyes , one on each side of their nose , probably browny-blue ( the eyes , not the nose ) . |
| 12 | The gathering perception that pen input has been over-hyped was reflected in the fact that it slipped two points to 8% , and speech technology does n't have many friends either , dropping one point to just 7% . |