Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] about two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I tried , tried to er er done it in my book about my again and I read about two pages and I fell asleep . |
| 2 | I had about Friday night I finished work here at twelve and then up again at and I got about two hours sleep then and I started to . |
| 3 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 4 | I mean if you go it 's normally I chat about two lectures on that and you give lots of examples . |
| 5 | I had about two inches cut off actually . |
| 6 | I had about two mouthfuls and then I just thought , no , I 'm going home . |
| 7 | ‘ I spend about two days a week at my office in Barnsley and the rest of the time is spent travelling around Pennines at meetings , ’ she said . |
| 8 | And she made me feel about two inches high |
| 9 | The Scottish army marched to relieve Berwick and encountered the English forces drawn up on Halidon Hill , which lies about two miles north-west of the town and commands all approaches to it from the north . |
| 10 | Department officials had been monitoring the convoy which spent about two weeks at a roadside halt near Ardglass before slipping into Downpatrick overnight . |
| 11 | So the novel , the action of which lasts about two years , grew . |
| 12 | I mean I do n't understand this you know , they oh bye , see you tomorrow you know about two hours . |
| 13 | Cos she takes about two pounds of root ginger peels it |
| 14 | Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep . |
| 15 | But she does about two pound of root ginger . |
| 16 | ‘ At the end of the day , we build about two ships a year and we have the option of using dry docks at Harland & Wolff in Belfast or perhaps Yarrow , ’ he said . |
| 17 | We had , I think we had about two ships of that , that 's all . |
| 18 | Bill Clinton had gone for his inaugurations now President of the United States so John high U K John and he met Colin and we had about two sort of erm semi heads of state battling in the what went on . |
| 19 | He uses his enlarged tail fin to regularly splash them with water , until they hatch about two days later . |
| 20 | Erm yeah , Romeo and Juliet was not completely his idea , it came from a sort of long poem which he read about two lovers and then he turned it into a play . |
| 21 | its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space . |
| 22 | Some of it arrived about two weeks after she had written to the box number , in the shape of three typewritten pages . |
| 23 | I should think it measured about two yards . |
| 24 | It takes about two hours to watch it |
| 25 | As it takes about two years to convert an idea to law through our parliamentary system , new legislation is often implemented at a time when the circumstances which gave rise to the idea have substantially altered . |
| 26 | Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south . |
| 27 | when I looked at the front page and he said about two paragraphs |
| 28 | This was the first phase of the eruption ; it lasted about two weeks . |