Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was pursuing two Germans who were attempting to escape . ’ |
| 2 | I was born two miles away . |
| 3 | When I was born two voices cried from my mouth . |
| 4 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
| 5 | My charge was supplying cocaine and I was given two years for that and one year each concurrent for possession of small amounts of cannabis , cannabis resin , amphetamines and LSD . |
| 6 | In the guards ' room I was shown two videos . |
| 7 | when I lost my weight with slimming we were try I was losing two pounds a week and I were n't starving , I was still drinking and it come off and I lost , I lost about I think it was about eighteen pounds , it was over a stone . |
| 8 | Er , I 've been robbed and swindled , er I was burgled two months ago , my house was wrecked all my jewellery every thing taken simply because I had left my windows open slightly , now I 've got to sleep at night with all my windows closed and I do n't get a good nights sleep apart from feeling insecure any way and er the swindle er I trusted people and now I ca n't trust any body and that leaves you feeling very insecure . |
| 9 | He was duly cited for contempt , received a thirty-day sentence to jail and a fine , which were quashed two years later on appeal . |
| 10 | Environment Minister Emil Salim said that the 500 firms , spread over 11 of the 27 provinces of Indonesia , have failed to comply with water effluent standards which were set two years ago . |
| 11 | One pair of blue jeans , faded , American label , in the pockets of which were found two cinema tickets , one wallet , brown leather with a red painted design , containing … ’ |
| 12 | The liberals believe they are under-represented in the Congress , which was elected two years ago under the old Soviet system . |
| 13 | That 's right which was run two days a week for over for three and a half weeks . |
| 14 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 15 | During the 1960 campaign , the Kennedy entourage dodged the opposition 's charges about the disease , which was diagnosed two decades earlier by a London doctor who commented , ‘ He has n't got a year to live . ’ |
| 16 | According to Mr Gorman , one of the main grievances is the minimal redundancy packages given to the 67 Albion workers who were sacked two weeks ago : ‘ We will be pushing the case for adequate recompense for workers who lost their jobs . |
| 17 | Then you would need two of the , two of these sheets if you were doing two conversations , but only one if you 've done one . |
| 18 | It happened before her mother 's death , when she was staying two weeks in the villa with her father . |
| 19 | She was watching two men . |
| 20 | She was killing two birds with one stone , she thought cheerfully : she really did feel sorry for Veronica , and keeping in touch was the only way she 'd find out more about the woman 's relationship with her husband . |
| 21 | Expecting that he would now let her go and retreat down the ladder , she was startled when his large hands gripped her thighs and continued to guide her until she was standing two steps above him . |
| 22 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 23 | We have a five-year-old daughter , Rebekah , who was born two months prematurely . |
| 24 | The Police have shot dead an armed man who was holding two women hostage at a flat in South London . |
| 25 | This was a truly remarkable achievement for Chris , who was diagnosed two years ago as having medically untreatable tumours in his lungs . |
| 26 | In their places came a unified Ministry under the Secretary of State for Defence , who was given two Ministers of State with functional responsibilities to assist him . |
| 27 | I got about halfway , and then wished for a spurt of invention that did n't depend upon one strident clown shaking a furious finger at someone who was standing two feet behind him . ’ |
| 28 | Diana asked the maid who was carrying two Louis Vuitton suitcases with the ‘ S ’ initial to her car . |
| 29 | Gordon Coppuck , who was to build two McLarens of great distinction — the M23 and the M26 — was quiet , immensely competitive ( he had been a motorbike driver of distinction ) and utterly absorbed in solving the engineering and design problems associated with FI racing . |
| 30 | We were raided two nights ago — nomads , your son said . |