Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | However my dad and my stepmum had two . |
| 2 | My department has two functions . |
| 3 | Lee ( 4.8 ) : My daddy has two vans , a blue one and a yellow one . |
| 4 | My husband died two years ago from the sweating sickness . |
| 5 | My husband died two months ago , and we had no issue . |
| 6 | Since my husband died two years ago , my daughter and her husband are always on hand to help and cheer me up . |
| 7 | Since my wife died two years ago , I 've lived in a flat on my own . |
| 8 | But it was a little lane and there were all these allotments that were on this erm this little lane , and I 'm not sure I think my father had two . |
| 9 | My father had two horses . ’ |
| 10 | From the backs of elephants we watched pig-sticking , and went out after blackbuck in a bullock-cart ; my father shot two , each with a good head . |
| 11 | My daughter has two young sons . |
| 12 | My son married two years ago and my grandson was born four months later . |
| 13 | Mm I mean my son buys two or even three at a time and |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm going to waste my time visiting two dealers , both of whom will try to sell me items I do n't want — and one of which I know is a nineteenth-century fake . |
| 15 | Ever ingenious , my brother snipped two holes in the top of one of his secret stash of ‘ johnnies ’ and stuck little Gnasher 's back legs through them . |
| 16 | At half past ten Emily came into my office carrying two cups of coffee , her own and mine . |
| 17 | Later my mother had two other sons , Ernest and William . |
| 18 | My mother made two movies with Alfred Hitchcock — Marnie and The Birds . |
| 19 | At its heart lie two raised mires of deep peat , wildernesses of scattered birch , where adders sun themselves among the fern , and amber dragonflies haunt the peaty pools . |
| 20 | At her side stood two other women , their admiring expressions mirror-images of the blonde 's . |
| 21 | At meetings in May 1788 , March and June 1789 , the Odiham Society , in its leisurely way , resolved to advertise its intention to educate two or more boys ‘ at the great School of Farriery in the neighbourhood of Paris , where children from every part of Europe are taught the business of Farriery scientifically and practically , and solicit the contributions of the Public at large ’ . |
| 22 | The navy has also expressed its intention to purchase two derelict British-made Oberon submarines from the Immingham-based firm of Seaforth . |
| 23 | NIREX quickly announced its intention to investigate two specific sites . |
| 24 | He may have met Burgess at Oxford ; Lord Rivers , who was also a graduate of Magdalen College , and was president of the Odiham Society , may have discussed the society with him ; or Penn may simply have read the society 's advertisement of its intention to send two lads to Alfort for training . |
| 25 | Its search has two interesting features : |
| 26 | The terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) , the first trade pact of its type linking two industrialized powers with a developing state , were agreed on Aug. 12 . |
| 27 | He , himself , commanded a unit and its armoury included two Thompson sub-machine guns . |
| 28 | Students for whom French is the minor component in their degree spend two months in France during summer vacations , and some financial help is available from the University to enable them to do this . |
| 29 | The BBC 's governors toyed with the idea of relinquishing their right to operate two channels of direct broadcast TV . |
| 30 | The reference to her Bible suggests two things : firstly the oral and the literary could exist side by side , and secondly that religion and superstition were not necessarily perceived as contesting forms of popular belief . |