Example sentences of "[pron] was two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was two hours too early for dinner and so spent the interval in a cloud of steam with my wet clothes draped around the fire . |
| 2 | ‘ Preston , I was two hours waiting for you in that porch . |
| 3 | I was two days late in getting onshore and just got to London on time . |
| 4 | I 've lived in Miami since I was two years old but when Emilio and I started singing professionally , back in the late Seventies , we sang only in Spanish . |
| 5 | I was two years old when my younger sister was born . |
| 6 | I can imagine him so very clearly , from his photographs , his words , but I do not remember him myself — I should have , I was two years old — it 's strange that I can not remember seeing him bending over my cot , as they say he did , glass of brandy-and-soda in hand . |
| 7 | She gave me my first mask when I was two years old . |
| 8 | When her younger brother tried to challenge her inheritance from her mother , ‘ I told him that though he was now the heir , as being son , yet I was two years the elder by my birth , and though he had got the birthright , yet I ought to have a share of her blessing . ’ |
| 9 | And as I had told you before on the previous er chat we had , how my father took over er when when I was two years old we moved up . |
| 10 | No I was two years when I left there . |
| 11 | ‘ He would make tremendous efforts , like running to catch the last train back when I was two months old , and waking me up at 11 o'clock at night to spend time with me . |
| 12 | ‘ I was two months pregnant and my parents said I 'd brought shame on their house and they kicked me out . ’ |
| 13 | Sarah took to visiting whenever she had time off , which was two hours every other Sunday , and she never went empty-handed . |
| 14 | Hey ? it 's the original time , which was two hours , is times it 's times a tenth . |
| 15 | A trip to his local pub , which was two roads away , was invariably undertaken by car . |
| 16 | Well erm I actually stopped smoking about er , two years ago and was quite surprised at the amount of weight I put on in about five months , which was two stone , which I did n't think I 'd deserved ! |
| 17 | The early mortality for elected admissions was point four percent and this was found to be significantly lower than the early mortality rate for emergency admissions which was two point four percent , some six times higher . |
| 18 | Examining the effects of histology , histological type , the early mortality patient with benign was point three percent and this was significantly less than the early mortality for those patients who had prostate cancer , which was two point nine percent , almost ten times greater . |
| 19 | She failed , however , and Mr Jones grabbed her and shook her , demanding to know where she had been , and why she was two hours later than he had said coming home . |
| 20 | It was so deep this dislocation , this feeling that she was two people . |
| 21 | She was two weeks away from giving birth to their first child . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's right , ’ said Mildred , ‘ and I heard tell that she changed one girl into a frog because she was two seconds late for a lesson . |
| 23 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 24 | She was two years older so it was n't surprising . |
| 25 | When she was two years old she had seemed to be of a cheerful disposition and laughed obediently when he made a witch out of his knotted handkerchief or cast a swan 's shadow against her bedroom wall with his fingers . |
| 26 | Carlie also claimed that when she was two months old a baby-sitter had stolen a gold cross from round her neck . |
| 27 | Last year , when she was two months pregnant Louise noticed a mole had appeared on the back of her leg . |
| 28 | Sometimes in her memory , it was her faceless father who was two fingers short instead . |
| 29 | Edward IV died in April 1483 , and the power struggle resumed as his younger brother , Richard , Duke of Gloucester , was Protector of the heir , the twelve year old Edward V , and the Duke removed the heir and his brother , who was two years younger , to the Tower of London where they died . |
| 30 | There were two daughters of the marriage : June , who was seventeen when Jack was born , and Lorraine who was two years younger . |