Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 2 | We cascaded down the stairs as the dog decided he could take going downstairs in his stride — and seethed across the station into the sunshine of the great outdoors ; where I observed two large policemen surrounding my estate car , notebooks in hand — and under the obvious impression that they were abut to make an easy collar . |
| 3 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 4 | One hot after noon I was cycling on a lonely road to a country house where I had two pupils when I heard a plane buzzing rather low over my head . |
| 5 | Mrs Dyer was lodged in Reading Gaol , where she made two abortive attempts at suicide , the first with a pair of scissors with which she tried to stab herself ; thwarted , she then tried to strangle herself with her boot laces , with no greater success . |
| 6 | Pick up any book ( not a children 's book or one which is highly technical or full of pictures ) and open it where you have two complete pages of text . |
| 7 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 8 | I could n't help contrasting it with Antrim , Edinburgh , Gateshead , even Crystal Palace where you needed two or three tracksuits just to keep warm . |
| 9 | But where you sees two for the price of one , you 're effectively gon na be getting a fifty percent |
| 10 | He took me to lunch at a discreetly ill-lit restaurant and then to an hotel on the Ile St Louis , where we passed two hours of the afternoon gratifying his fantasies . |
| 11 | On the larger ships where we have two main restaurants , we also have two hot kitchens . |
| 12 | The words ‘ domestic flight ’ brought a smile and directions to gate 6 , where we found two gentlemen and an X-ray machine . |
| 13 | Their homeward journey took them via Lille ( where Wolfgang fell ill ) , Ghent , Antwerp and The Hague ( where they gave two public concerts and played , by special request , to the Princess of Weilburg , to whom Wolfgang dedicated a set of six keyboard and violin sonatas ) . |
| 14 | When he was thirteen , despite an erratic academic performance at King 's , Sorley gained an open scholarship to Marlborough College , where he developed two abiding sensual passions , for food and cross-country running . |
| 15 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 16 | Having become ill in Prestwick , he was admitted to Park Nursing Home , Glasgow , where he died two days later , 5 February 1934 . |
| 17 | His head cleared at his second , where he thrashed two drivers on to the green , while he went to two under for the day at his fifth , the short 14th , where he hit a seven-iron to 7ft . |
| 18 | He drifted into junior football but then linked up again with McFall at Portadown — where he won two championship medals . |
| 19 | The defendant , who was driving his car in Jermyn Street , was arrested after a roadside breath test proved positive and taken to a police station , where he provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 20 | Murray gave him petrol money and a bundle of £20 notes amounting to several hundred pounds and Mr Taylor drove to Carlisle and then Liverpool , where he obtained two balls containing powder . |
| 21 | He left the corner and trekked a few blocks east until he found a bar , where he put two bourbons down his throat , and wished to his core that alcohol and not the opposite sex had been his addiction . |
| 22 | There was a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 23 | There was also a shock for the SDLP in Newry and Mourne where it lost two seats , reducing its strength to 15 . |
| 24 | Quality 's main geographical markets are the UK and Australia , where it has two offices , one in Melbourne and one in Sydney . |
| 25 | It 's alright at Although I 'd two brothers , on or two would be away from home from home at the s the same time . |
| 26 | I know he has a meeting scheduled in St Maarten for the 20th , so I assume two nights will be fine . |
| 27 | The Danakil guide we had acquired at Bilen had tried to bolt on the march , so I detailed two soldiers to guard him till dawn . |
| 28 | ‘ So I had two choices . |
| 29 | The water was getting hot and becoming clouded with the residue of the last course , so I crumbled two Oxo cubes into it and stirred . |
| 30 | I could not find a piece big enough , so I bought two smaller pieces and took them back to the dacha . |