Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am using two 36″ tubes . |
| 2 | I am using two 80W mercury vapour lights , from when my tank was planted . |
| 3 | By leaving him a half share in the house , I feel I am achieving two objects . |
| 4 | I am following two women , heavy bundles on their backs . |
| 5 | If so , I 'm meeting two girls at a cop-shop on the corner of Green Street and there 's a pub next to it called the Wagon & Horses . |
| 6 | Do you want to know why I 'm wearing two pairs of knickers because |
| 7 | I 'm getting two copies there . |
| 8 | I 'm losing two units of reproductive success . |
| 9 | I 'm having two bridesmaids , aged five and six at my wedding and would like to give them a present after the event . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm having two poems published in Novy Mir , ’ she said aloud ; ‘ Dmitri 's had some good luck too . |
| 11 | I know , but I 'm to buy two birthday presents I just do n't have thirty . |
| 12 | Three pounds , I 'm doing two signings , one is this Sunday at the Radio Lincolnshire Open Show , I 'll be there on Sunday from two till four signing the Good Old Days Quiz Book , two till four this Sunday at Radio Lincolnshire 's Open Day and on Wednesday December the eighth I 'll be at at Nottingham , and doing a signing there for the Good Old Days Quiz Book , B B C publication . |
| 13 | If you are using two strands of 2/30s for your jacquard then add one extra strand for the welt and remove it after the last two CX rows . |
| 14 | Makita suggests that if you are using two battery packs , the charger should be left to cool down for 15 minutes between chargings . |
| 15 | If you are using two six-egg-boxes , fasten them together with strong tape to make two rows of six ‘ holes ’ ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 16 | Imagine you are parting two walls . |
| 17 | You are putting two trees ahead of people |
| 18 | You must have , you , you must have you keep telling me that you 're doing all these extra hours and you 're owed two weeks ' holiday |
| 19 | This is a centuries old , charming village situated on the promontory that separates Lake Como from Lake Lecco , so you 're getting two lakes for the price of one ! |
| 20 | I mean , that 's alright , but when you think you 're spending two pound ten pence and then , if you come out and you want a drink |
| 21 | Cause you have to put a lot of cream on your face to get the make up off and you do that especially if you 're doing two performances a day it 's an awful lot mess and much you 're putting on your face and you ca n't get it all off |
| 22 | The net result of all of this is that we are deleting two words from point ten the rest of the procedure stands . |
| 23 | To take a simple example : suppose we are comparing two dialects , one of which has the vowel /eI/ ( in words of the type gate , place ) where the other has /aI/ . |
| 24 | This could be described as a hybrid Bill and , in a sense , we are considering two questions at the same time . |
| 25 | I consider that we have a very important national duty to perform in this respect ; this city is something more than the mother of arts and eloquence ; she is the mother of nations ; we are peopling two continents , the Western and the Southern Continent , and we are organising , christianising and civilising large portions of two ancient continents , Africa and Asia ; and it is not right that when the inhabitants of those countries come to the metropolis , they should see nothing worthy of its ancient renown . |
| 26 | ‘ We are funding Two Castles in the first place . |
| 27 | For this allover pattern we are crossing two stitches over two instead of three stitches over three stitches . |
| 28 | We are making two changes in our meter-reading procedures . |
| 29 | Still , it 's not for much longer , then we 're taking two months off to sail the Atlantic . ’ |
| 30 | I think we 're discussing two issues here . |