Example sentences of "[verb] two [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rolled out the towel on the table , revealing two scissors she turned back to Patrick , looking critically at his hair . |
| 2 | If a taxpayer has two residences he can elect which of them is to be treated as his main residence ( s222(5) ) for the purpose of the exemption and notwithstanding the terms of the above concession the husband can avoid difficulty if he makes a positive election . |
| 3 | Brown , who wed Whitney at a glittering ceremony last month , says : ‘ Whitney has two dogs she adores . |
| 4 | Oh I can I do n't carry two cups I ca , dare n't carry a cup and saucer |
| 5 | Yeah , but would n't that make it possible to take that out , and then it would n't make sense , 'cos it would say , as I missed the train which went in an hour 's time if you put another comma , 'cos if you , if you put two commas you could n't take it out . |
| 6 | I would have done two doors I think , someone knocking on a door and but I do n't think anyone would have got it . |
| 7 | Alan gave it back to him , but when he had had two mouthfuls he let it drop . |
| 8 | Now if you 'd like two tickets I 've got one pair of tickets only , we 'll send them by post we need your postcode call us on Nottingham three four three four three four but please make sure that you can use the tickets before you call please . |
| 9 | Hell , I 've got two sons I 've got to put through school and I just … ’ |
| 10 | So I 've got a two there I 'll put a tick on that so I 've got two times I 've got another two so I always put my smallest ones on the left so I can find them quickly . |
| 11 | Unless this chap 's got two heads they 'll confirm it 's Hess , I 'll put my shirt on it . |
| 12 | Yeah and she 's totally focused , she 's er , I think she 's got two children erm her husbands works , she 's got two children she 's brought up and developed herself to be a branch manager or assistant branch manager er she 's got a degree h now do n't listen to this Lorraine , who it said mid thirties |
| 13 | And a prosthetist said : ‘ You have a great understanding of their problems because no matter how good a prosthetist is , if he 's got two legs he falls short of really knowing what it 's like . ’ |
| 14 | It 's the smallest polygon you can make cos if you 've got two sides you ca n't join it up can you ? |
| 15 | But it 'd been a good day last year , on the Monday holiday , and they had needed two coaches you see . |
| 16 | there 's only two of us , you get two visitors we 're alright as a four |
| 17 | For example , if you draw two objects you can select Suggest Alignment and if any dimensions are similar making them identical will be suggested . |
| 18 | You see , the the erm wait a minute the womb is like two knuckles together like that , wh when you conceive they close like two bones you see they close , and they if you want to get rid you 've got to open it which is which is damned hard work and of course terrible pain attached to it . |
| 19 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 20 | Yeah , you know two times I 've been , and me eyes are going right mad . |
| 21 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 22 | RESIDENTS on a Londonderry housing estate tracked two men they had earlier seen allegedly acting suspiciously at a car used by a Ministry of Defence worker , a court heard yesterday . |
| 23 | So I phoned them again and er they took it down and then I did n't see it in the paper again so when I phoned again and said why have n't you put it in she said well , of course , she said , if you pay two pounds she said two pound fifty |
| 24 | After blunting two ice-screws I give up and go for the peg . |
| 25 | Maybe I said things I should not have done — it was over-reaction to the fact we lost two points we probably deserved , and to the manner they were lost . ’ |
| 26 | I 've got to make allowances you see cos I 've got to fill the day f with jobs for the other lads , so if I allow two hours I 've got to fill the other six . |
| 27 | Yeah , this , this is interesting , it gets confusing perhaps because erm , I rang British Section , British Section today erm , enquiring about er , ah , there it is , were , were are we , erm enquiring about er groups having two prisoners you brought this up last time and as the result of me talking to somebody there erm , it became clear that British Section still showed us as having Sabri Lushe as a prisoner , erm and they were n't aware that we were no longer dealing with him , he 'd been released , and what they say is they usually get conformation from International Secretarium |
| 28 | As no man can serve two masters we had long been told no wise general tries to fight on two fronts . |
| 29 | Also , when comparing two probes we are averaging information over the large number of clones , whereas when comparing two clones we are averaging over the small number of probes , so a probe-probe comparison has a higher information content than a clone-clone comparison . |
| 30 | Also , when comparing two probes we are averaging information over the large number of clones , whereas when comparing two clones we are averaging over the small number of probes , so a probe-probe comparison has a higher information content than a clone-clone comparison . |