Example sentences of "[vb past] take two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to take two dogs on . |
| 2 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 3 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 4 | She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me . |
| 5 | Vigno had taken two lumps of granite from the side of the hill and made us keep them in our mouths for three hours . |
| 6 | It had taken two hours . |
| 7 | I also bound up with my brochure , a number of photographs ; for I had taken two cameras abroad . |
| 8 | And then , when he said that , Viola Angotti had taken two steps forward . |
| 9 | He had taken two steps when the guns stopped . |
| 10 | However , Mr Everett said , it had taken two months to obtain the Giro for Emma . |
| 11 | Suppose that the misdirected letter of acceptance had taken two months on its way , or had never arrived . |
| 12 | She asked for news of Robin and Jenny , and Aunt Sarah launched into an ironic description of how a Japanese tourist half Jenny 's size and four times her age had proposed marriage to her ( ’ At least I hope it was marriage ’ ) , and how Robin had got locked overnight in the bar of the hotel where he was working and had taken two days to sleep it off ; and gradually Ruth fought down her feelings . |
| 13 | The case had taken two weeks at the Old Bailey , the first devoted to legal argument before the jury was sworn . |
| 14 | I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law . |
| 15 | The communications link had taken two years to pioneer , in situ long before a road or railway . |
| 16 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
| 17 | The children had to stay within close reach of each other and the hosts had to take two children so they could keep each other company . |
| 18 | The administration blames the delay on the fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton , the president 's wife and head of the task force , had to take two weeks off to care for her dying father . |
| 19 | I had to take two trains and a bus ; by the time I got there I was bleeding badly , giddy and incoherent with exhaustion . |