Example sentences of "[vb past] me two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 2 | Harvey passed me two New York numbers on the Hanover exchange . |
| 3 | Mm used me two times table . |
| 4 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
| 5 | Erm and it cost me two quid I think for the four . |
| 6 | And a pint of milk 's thirty eight pence I think it cost me two pound thirty eight up here . |
| 7 | Not much late I asked Dr Ethelwynn Trewavas her opinion , and she assured me two species were involved , and kindly showed me photos of the teeth of both species , which even I could see were different . |
| 8 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 9 | My third bus dropped me two streets away from home , which gave me a chance to call in at the local florist 's and buy a twenty-quid bouquet on PKB 's Amex card . |
| 10 | Phillips said : ‘ The bench told me two minutes , the referee seven minutes . |
| 11 | paid me two pounds . |
| 12 | No that were my mistake , which er , is a genuine mistake , I mean sh you paid me two quid , as I say , I do n't know who 's whose now |
| 13 | He taught me two things in addition to the pastoral spirit . |
| 14 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 15 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 16 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 17 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 18 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 19 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 20 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 22 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 23 | But my ex heard about this and sent me two letters , full of how much he cares for me and that the break-up was his fault . |
| 24 | Sent me two sheets for the official ledger , two sheets peoples handicaps , three medals and two medal certificates and that was the whole |
| 25 | They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head . |
| 26 | and we will give you a er , two addresses , and so they gave me two addresses and and to reach people at I 've done the job quite well . |
| 27 | They gave me two days to decide — two days of hell . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I do n't know — it lasted me two meals . |
| 29 | Made two , erm , cooked two eggs , and it lasted me two days , whereas you know , usually if I go downstairs , I do n't have to make anything , because all their pre-prepared anyway . |
| 30 | So I started as an errand boy and half a crown a week was my bus fare , which give me , entitled me two journeys , a return journey each day . |