Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] two [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | you see I 've got two subsids now literally the transfer |
2 | I got fined two classes [ a class was half a crown ] a week for twelve months , so it mounted up . |
3 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
4 | I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk . |
5 | Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ? |
6 | I 'd got two pals that tried to get rid , they did get rid eventually , yeah . |
7 | And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by . |
8 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
9 | I 'd earned two shadows , bullnecks |
10 | I mean really I er it shook me because I was extremely naive , I 'd had two children but I was very very naive in those days . |
11 | Erm , then I think it probably had us confused for a while , whilst we were just trying to decide who should do writing and who should do what , but then I decided I 'd chose two people , and then we started cutting things out so then that , that went okay then . |
12 | Benjamin , however , squeezed me by the wrist and I followed him , taking some consolation in the fact that I had hidden two knives , three spoons and a small silver plate used for sweetmeats inside my jerkin . |
13 | I had lost two teeth , one eye was closed , and an ear torn . |
14 | I had lost two stones since joining the RAF . |
15 | He would know I had placed two packets there inside . |
16 | ‘ I had done two shows with spectacular unsuccess . |
17 | I had arrived two days too late . |
18 | At that time I was turning it out with some facility , and I had had two poems published in The Isis in my first year . |
19 | I also bound up with my brochure , a number of photographs ; for I had taken two cameras abroad . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | I 've written two articles now in a series that 's supposed to be practical and is intended to get you knitting on your ribber and we 've not yet knitted a single row . |
23 | I 've written two novels and five Plays and God knows how many short stories , and what keeps me alive , even ? |
24 | I 've told you all I know and I ought to be getting back — I 've lost two hours of work as it is . ’ |
25 | ‘ I 've waited two days for you . |
26 | Day 14 ) Not only has Dave been on a raft the last week but today — honest Dave , I 've waited two months for that 50 bucks you promised me not to reveal this , but it has not arrived — he got off the raft and walked around Upset . |
27 | I 've seen two women fighting over a saucepan . |
28 | As long as I 've done two tapes minimum |
29 | But I 've heard two people |
30 | But now I 've made two trips there and I 'm anxious to go back because I feel I 'm getting tapped in a little better , I 'm getting emotionally connected . |