Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] two things " in BNC.

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1 By which I mean two things .
2 Yeah I mean two things .
3 Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report .
4 I want two things .
5 I want two things from an aeroplane : I want it to fly me up to the enemy , and then lie still while I shoot the enemy down . ’
6 ‘ That 's right and I want two things .
7 I remember two things about that rally .
8 From these authorities I collect two things .
9 Are erm erm have been made I 'd like to simply to say I think two things .
10 On Wednesday morning I did two things .
11 I have two things to say in response .
12 And in the end she found two things .
13 ‘ So now you know two things about me , Miss Aurora Blake .
14 ‘ It 's just that when you get two things happening like that , people say there 's going to be three , do n't they ?
15 And in that instant she understood two things .
16 In order to carry out your responsibilities you require two things — POWER and AUTHORITY .
17 You said two things .
18 You have two things to put the raspberry and then they .
19 By ‘ good ’ we mean two things :
20 So we get two things , we get a very good new personality , and secondly , an intelligent personality , and , therefore , and this is an important part of the strategy , she gets out of the other archaeologists she 's talking to a much higher level of interaction and intellectual interchange than she would if she were simply a standard presenter .
21 We did two things to offset this : first of course we reduced the book fund [ the money for purchase of new books ] .
22 At the last council meeting we did two things or two things have happened .
23 So we have two things , we 've got iron ore , coke .
24 In order to make the right choices we need two things : some reliable facts to educate ourselves with , and some experience of how different foods affect the body , our own in particular .
25 We asked them to consider two things — what would make a good general gift for any fishkeeper — and what would they actually want to find in their Christmas stocking .
26 Oh and they show two things so y you 'll have to see if there 's any correlation between the two is there any correlation between rainfall and temperature , and is there ?
27 Getting rid of him achieves two things .
28 He seeks to provide a substantive characterization of the concept of reality which will enable him to do two things : first , to show how certain rules and procedures are logically correct , how employment of them will suffice to guide us towards knowledge of reality ; secondly , to show how it can be rational for a self-controlled agent to seek to contribute to knowledge of reality .
29 They have two things in common : in life they were rich , and in death wary .
30 And he had a list which I 've , I 've got there and er I think he got two things suggested that were on his list from the group of people who were supposed to be aware and er about twenty things which he thought maybe they should have thought about , and had n't .
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