Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] two [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the guards ' room I was shown two videos . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was duly cited for contempt , received a thirty-day sentence to jail and a fine , which were quashed two years later on appeal . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The liberals believe they are under-represented in the Congress , which was elected two years ago under the old Soviet system . |
| 11 | That 's right which was run two days a week for over for three and a half weeks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It happened before her mother 's death , when she was staying two weeks in the villa with her father . |
| 17 | She was watching two men . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We have a five-year-old daughter , Rebekah , who was born two months prematurely . |
| 21 | The Police have shot dead an armed man who was holding two women hostage at a flat in South London . |
| 22 | This was a truly remarkable achievement for Chris , who was diagnosed two years ago as having medically untreatable tumours in his lungs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | We were raided two nights ago — nomads , your son said . |
| 26 | And then , after two years , we were allowed on to the wards in our white coats and we had to erm find out about the patients and initially we were all very slow and we were given two hours to talk to a patient to find out all about them . |
| 27 | He and I were of course aware that we were making two assumptions which were obviously incorrect . |
| 28 | we were doing two things . |
| 29 | At one venue we were having two conferences three months apart . |
| 30 | Soon the little terrace house became a hub of domestic activity when not only his first daughter Eleanor Elizabeth played with his half brother but they were joined two years later by his second daughter , Florence . |