Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] two [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace .
2 The flat roof of our own house was high enough for me to see two summer screens for free .
3 About 70 per cent of new entrants were over twenty-one , half of whom lacked two A levels , and fewer than a quarter were school-leavers with these qualifications or their equivalent .
4 I got two toilet papers on .
5 And I got two polo necks one with slight ribs in .
6 I needed some change so I got two sausage rolls , I 'm gon na wire them up on microwave in a bit right ?
7 There is a German lady called Louise most anxious to see you again , ’ — here I suggest two exclamation marks — ‘ and I have some Jewish friends who are also desirous to meet you .
8 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 .
9 Erm if I put two times brackets three add six it does make a difference .
10 That evening I received two elephant tusks , a heavy , ornate gold cigarette case , a large , colourful carpet and the third class of the Star of Ethiopia .
11 I remember two lady missionaries , who were also returning to Burma , saying , ‘ Well , of course we shall arrive safely because we are going out to do the Lord 's work . ’
12 Can I have two chicken breasts please ?
13 Yeah I se well I happened to be coming home from school cos I thought there was a the hearse coming and then I watched two mourning cars two flashy great big things !
14 At either end of the aquarium I placed two terracotta dishes to contain the fish 's food .
15 On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door .
16 I took two paperback books , a toothbrush , my Ventolin inhaler and a copy of the repeat prescription , four T-shirts , two pairs of jeans and my other pair of trainers .
17 I think two product areas are worth watching .
18 I bought two Clown Plecs in the hope that they would embarrass the Foxes into nibbling a bit of algae .
19 I have a soft water community of Discus , Clown Loach and Angels , to which I introduced two Red-Claw Crabs .
20 I did two rabbit sculptures for an exhibition in Yorkshire made of cow much on a metal frame .
21 To illustrate these points I offer two case studies .
22 I had two manpower extensions .
23 I had two glass fulls
24 But I give it back to er cos I have two pleadings bundles .
25 I have two 10″ specimens in a 53″ × 18″ × 12″ aquarium , which they share with two 8″ Oscars and a couple of small Pimelodids .
26 I have two software/hardware queries .
27 At the present time I have in a total of fourteen patrol constables and two community constables and , as you are aware , I have two community constables here in , and .
28 I have two margarine cartons in here .
29 AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent .
30 NCp7 is a highly basic protein which contains two zinc fingers of the form Cys-X 2 -Cys-X 4 -His-X 4 -Cys ( CCHC ) flanked by regions rich in basic residues ( 3–4 ) .
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