Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
2 | I got fined two classes [ a class was half a crown ] a week for twelve months , so it mounted up . |
3 | They promised to drive two riders through twelve hoops of blazing straw . |
4 | ‘ Between 1964 and 1970 the Labour government tried to serve two masters . |
5 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
6 | I explain that Tod Richardson tried to do two jobs at once : one , have his boys reinforce the message about the ten thousand debt , and two , have another crew search the house . |
7 | It was not until March 1950 that the British ceased to rank the Middle East equally with Europe , and promised to send two divisions to the continent in the event of war . |
8 | He therefore tried to ride two horses , attempting to pad out Labour 's newly acquired eleventh commandment , ‘ Thou shalt not promote homosexuality ’ , with some points of principle . |
9 | They tried having two machines but never had enough laundry to justify running them both . |
10 | Daniels proposed to add two forms to the Senior , one at the top and one at the bottom , and to take on another master . |
11 | He tried to take two dogs on . |
12 | Though this distinction could be abused , at this precise moment it helped to clarify two sets of problems the Council would have to deal with : internal questions ( nature of the Church , worship , ecumenism , etc. ) , and external questions ( war , peace , birth control , hunger , etc . ) . |
13 | They produced fry two days later which were born during the afternoon . |
14 | Coombes , now 17 , of Cardiff , admitted causing two deaths by reckless driving . |
15 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |
16 | And there was a memo to John from yourself , tenth of Jan , that my manager has passed to me , it said you 'd given two options that you could go in on Saturday and erm |
17 | She 'd caught two buses across Johannesburg and then walked the last couple of miles to come and find me . ’ |
18 | By the time Durkheim came to write Two Laws of Penal Evolu-tion , he had modified his theory about the decline in importance of the conscience collective ( a phrase he ceased to use ) and had come to believe that collective sentiments were a crucial factor in any society . |
19 | I 'd earned two shadows , bullnecks |
20 | That was what Lord Weinstock did when his GEC seemed threatened two years ago . |
21 | Another witness , taxi driver David Harvey described how he 'd seen two cars flashing by , about three feet apart , in the opposite direction . |
22 | She 'd seen two men fighting in the street and seen them run past her . |
23 | He 'd strangled two children with his bare hands , then called the police to give himself up . |
24 | The equaliser Darlington 's endeavour deserved came two minutes before the break . |
25 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
26 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
27 | He 'd got two fivers left , then . |
28 | Either that or she 'd got two woollies on . |
29 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
30 | In fact , I was told you 'd got two nights ! |