Example sentences of "[pron] take two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked no way could I take two years out again and that was it . |
| 2 | I took two paperback books , a toothbrush , my Ventolin inhaler and a copy of the repeat prescription , four T-shirts , two pairs of jeans and my other pair of trainers . |
| 3 | and I 'd got a bit of an headache , well I took two tablets and it had gone before Steve come in and er I had me tea and I w I went like that and I thought God almighty ! |
| 4 | Right , when I went to Turkey , I had three jabs before I went away and every two days I took two tablets . |
| 5 | ‘ I took two pills that evening — they 've never affected me like that before . ’ |
| 6 | A week later I took two children and the three of us got there and back for £40.50 , which does seem a comparative snip . |
| 7 | I take two examples . |
| 8 | I take two examples which I find seem to embrace the fateful aspects of my life in the Service . |
| 9 | I take two cracks at saying , ‘ People can speak gibberish in their dreams . ’ |
| 10 | We now discuss " sweeping " , which takes two forms . |
| 11 | Before use , the trimmer must be fully charged , which takes two hours . |
| 12 | The Individual Programme Plans of Elizabeth and Helen , which took two attempts to get off the ground because of staff changes and inadequate training , have been virtually suspended — even before the first reviews — because of the latest staffing upheaval . |
| 13 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 14 | Modelled here by Adele Curry , a student at the Blackpool and Flyde College of Hair and Beauty , the amazing creation which took two weeks to complete and stands well over a foot high is in celebration of Blackpool Tower 's £13 million transformation into Tower World . |
| 15 | These colleges have concentrated mainly on providing initial training courses leading to a Certificate in Education , which take two forms : a one-year full-time pre-service course for graduates , similar in structure to post-graduate courses which train teachers for schools ; and a four-term sandwich course for practising teachers . |
| 16 | These will only appear after the final moult , except in damsel flies which take two moults , one very soon after the other , to bring their wings to perfection . |
| 17 | She takes two teaspoons of sugar in each of her hot drinks ; she adds two teaspoons of sugar to her breakfast cereal ( or has sugar-coated cereal or muesli with sugar ) . |
| 18 | She took two cups and saucers from the dresser and put them on the table ; she got the milk from the fridge . |
| 19 | She took two sips , then the water ran out of her mouth on to her chin . |
| 20 | She took two pills from a bottle by the bed on which she had thrown herself and crushed them between the pages of Mansfield Park . |
| 21 | I introduced her , she took two steps , and there was an almighty clatter . |
| 22 | She took two steps down the corridor , then stopped , relieved . |
| 23 | But , as she took two steps backwards , he followed her into the apartment 's hallway , softly lit by the lamp she had left on . |
| 24 | His swarming attacks gradually overwhelmed wright who took two knock downs and a standing count before the referee halted it in the third . |
| 25 | Lurgan also went to Dublin and won , eliminating CYM by a five wicket margin helped by a superb all round performance from Craig Irwin who took two wickets for 24 and then hit a not out 60 . |
| 26 | ‘ It was after that weekend gig in Zimbabwe — but I seem to remember that you took two weeks ’ leave immediately after that , so perhaps you never knew . |
| 27 | You take two rounds Willie . |
| 28 | Most remarkable of all , if you take two sponges and treat them both in this extreme way and then mix cells from the two , they will reconstitute themselves into a single mixed-parentage entity . |
| 29 | We took two hunks and , with the help of a carefully selected team of experts , made them even hunkier ! |
| 30 | No , neither were we when we took two trips to London in a fortnight . |