Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] two [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I make two points in reply to the hon. Gentleman ? |
| 2 | I got two Helens in the group . |
| 3 | It 's just as well — I cut two holes in it for the ears ! |
| 4 | I put two pounds in the machine up there and I got fifteen pounds , I got the three bars , er , not the three , two bars and some nudges and I nudged it |
| 5 | One Sunday when I was attending Mass in the Santuario , I noticed two girls in the next pew who were wearing greased mountain boots and thick hand-knitted socks . |
| 6 | Later on , as a consultant at the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital , I organized two trials in rheumatoid arthritis at the Centre for Rheumatic Diseases . |
| 7 | To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour . |
| 8 | ‘ I spent two years in a psikhushka , ’ he replied curtly . |
| 9 | ‘ You see , I spent two years in Russia , and I know a little about Siberian Magic . |
| 10 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 11 | I spent two years in Washington trying to be a surgeon , but I could n't settle in the States . ’ |
| 12 | In the end , I spent two afternoons in a central gaol ( the highest category of prison , intended primarily for long-termers ) in a major town in the south of India . |
| 13 | I lost two stones in all . |
| 14 | As the plain rose towards the plateau , I saw two poles in the ground ; with a rag flapping from each they looked like wind socks . |
| 15 | It sat in my wardrobe malevolently for a while until , out of sheer defiance , I grew two inches in as many months and in most directions . |
| 16 | I attended two meetings in my constituency yesterday . |
| 17 | ‘ I did two jobs in the vac , you see . |
| 18 | She said : ’ I won two golds in the team and doubles event and a silver in the mixed . |
| 19 | or how I liked two sugars in my tea , |
| 20 | ‘ I had two horses in the wagon that day : I had two that day . |
| 21 | I had two horses in work during November and December . |
| 22 | For the last couple of weeks , I had two posters in my windows , facing on to a fairly busy street . |
| 23 | I had two rounds in the morning and a round in the evening . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've still got a steel plate and screws in my leg after breaking both ankles last year and I had two falls in four days in July . |
| 25 | Er I think I had two years in the Home Guard . |
| 26 | For the moment I had two vehicles in PKB 's underground car park , Armstrong and Tel 's BMW . |
| 27 | It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only ! |
| 28 | ‘ But I have two youngsters in Stuart Spruce and Paul Atcheson who will hopefully put Jonathan under pressure . |
| 29 | I have two purposes in raising his case . |
| 30 | Mortensen ( 1933a ) noted that A. ingolfiana and A. norvegica were very similar and could only be distinguished from one another by the following characters ; the shape of the genital plate which has two branches in A. ingolfiana but in A. norvegica the abradial branch — the one on the ventral interradial side of the genital plate is reduced and broadened , while the radial shields which are more rounded on the proximal abradial — outer side in A. ingolfiana while in A. norvegica this side is more angular . |