Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I myself teach two history courses . |
| 2 | By which I mean two things . |
| 3 | What I wanted ideally was a situation in which I had two groups of birds , each trained on and showing the disgust response to the bitter bead , but one group then remembering and the other forgetting the association . |
| 4 | I have a soft water community of Discus , Clown Loach and Angels , to which I introduced two Red-Claw Crabs . |
| 5 | Until she passed on , which she did two weeks past . |
| 6 | We could also set up an effect-to-cause study in which we match two groups for which the response measurements differ and look to see if they also differ in some previous X-type phenomenon . |
| 7 | ‘ Project 1990 ’ , which we started two years ago , is a great help here and is a process that must and will continue . |
| 8 | In early April 1946 U Sein Ywet and I did a seven-days tour in the Delta in which we visited two towns and ten villages , listening to government officers , elders , headmen , and representatives from nearly a hundred villages , which convinced me that much more needed to be done for the towns and villages outside Rangoon . |
| 9 | And as to dictatorships — in which he says two people in every 100 are interested in politics as opposed to three in a hundred in a democracy — you could argue that some dictatorships succeeded because they appealed to primitive instincts in people who were not interested in politics . |
| 10 | So brief is the note , and couched in such general terms , that it is difficult to base much upon it , but worth noting are the facts that he clearly saw his choice as lying in the normal way between tedris and kaza , which he calls two paths or careers ; that a signal disadvantage of teaching was that it was unremunerative ; and , not least , that , unable to contemplate either alternative , he was able to find a home for his talents and interests in the bureaucracy . |
| 11 | He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh , after which he spent two years learning commerce with a London agency house . |
| 12 | In the same way , when Conrad Aiken sent him a copy of Ushant in which he described two incidents which displayed a streak of sadism " in Eliot 's nature , Eliot denied any recollection of such events . |
| 13 | Frank Malton , 77 , of Acacia Street , Darlington , has called for action on a dangerous broken grating on Brinkburn Road which he reported two months ago but found yesterday that nothing has been done . |
| 14 | His last literary project was a verse translation of Oppian 's Halieuticks , of which he completed two books , published posthumously ( 1722 ) . |
| 15 | On which he makes two statements : first , that we are unmoved by it ; second , that it is a tragedy , especially to the eight-year-old son . |
| 16 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
| 17 | Did you are you trying to tell me you spent two quid last night ? |
| 18 | Her husband , by whom she had two sons , was chaplain of All Souls and lecturer in modern history at several undergraduate colleges . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most familiar type of compound is the one which combines two nouns , and normally has the stress on the first element , as in : |
| 20 | We are at present much exercised in considering the possibility that in order to satisfy the CATE criteria , particularly the one which stipulates two years of subject study , our commitment in this area of work may have to be reduced . |
| 21 | Where 's your other one you had two ducks when you , ah , there 's one down there look near Hazel 's feet . |
| 22 | H here we we have two categories of of areas of difference . |
| 23 | Risking everything he grabbed two tomatoes and the biggest apples before bedding down for another night under cover of trees . |
| 24 | Resistance sources in Peshawar believe that hard-line Pushtun leader Gulbeddin Hekmatyar , who is attacking Bagram , may try to stage a coup in Kabul — something he attempted two years ago — denying the northern minorities power . |
| 25 | The old wooden case-clock at the foot of the stairs where Ellie was standing chimed the hour , as if to tell her she had two hours to herself before the ‘ broth ’ returned , and three and a quarter hours before her father did likewise . |
| 26 | They he freed two men . |
| 27 | This in turn brought him into contact with Owen Jones , the Superintendent of the Exhibition , for whom he wrote two introductions to Jones ' Grammar of Ornament , first published in 1856 . |
| 28 | Ivan said Sue , whom he met two years ago , had spent almost every hour with him during and since the operation . |
| 29 | He was married three times : to Margaret , daughter of Joseph Gatey of Keswick , Cumberland , in 1869 , who died in 1877 and by whom he had two daughters ; to Jessy Henrietta , daughter of James Stewart of Clapham , Yorkshire , in 1880 , who died in 1904 ; and to Florence Maude , daughter of the Revd Robert Daniel of Osbaldwick , Yorkshire and widow of Colonel J. Lawson Whalley , in 1909 . |
| 30 | On 9 July 1877 Matcham married Robinson 's younger daughter Maria , by whom he had two daughters . |