Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got fined two classes [ a class was half a crown ] a week for twelve months , so it mounted up . |
| 2 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 3 | I seemed to live two inches behind the front of my skin , that part of me created wilfully by my lovers . |
| 4 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 5 | I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk . |
| 6 | Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ? |
| 7 | I 'd got two pals that tried to get rid , they did get rid eventually , yeah . |
| 8 | And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd earned two shadows , bullnecks |
| 11 | I mean really I er it shook me because I was extremely naive , I 'd had two children but I was very very naive in those days . |
| 12 | Erm , then I think it probably had us confused for a while , whilst we were just trying to decide who should do writing and who should do what , but then I decided I 'd chose two people , and then we started cutting things out so then that , that went okay then . |
| 13 | I turned to face two men , apparently soldiers , for both were wearing the camouflage combat jackets of the army 's working dress , and black berets . |
| 14 | Well , like I say , it 's not erm an ambition really of mine it 's a challenge of a lifetime because I 've never liked running and I decided that as I started running two years ago that er the marathon was the ultimate , and as it 's the ultimate challenge I thought what I 'm asking and why I 've asked to come in to FOX F M is to er ask the businesses of Bicester to help me er raise money for the er Bicester Health Centre , and also for the Bible School boys sponsoring me . |
| 15 | ‘ I managed to get two rods out but had to sink the line below the water to avoid the ice which was being blown towards me , ’ said John . |
| 16 | I did have two minutes to see A do his ladder climb , and T's climbing feat . |
| 17 | Benjamin , however , squeezed me by the wrist and I followed him , taking some consolation in the fact that I had hidden two knives , three spoons and a small silver plate used for sweetmeats inside my jerkin . |
| 18 | I had lost two teeth , one eye was closed , and an ear torn . |
| 19 | I had lost two stones since joining the RAF . |
| 20 | I had to wait two hours before seeing him as he was in conference with a producer . |
| 21 | He would know I had placed two packets there inside . |
| 22 | I had to take two trains and a bus ; by the time I got there I was bleeding badly , giddy and incoherent with exhaustion . |
| 23 | ‘ I had done two shows with spectacular unsuccess . |
| 24 | I had arrived two days too late . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , Mary , I had to journey two centuries to find such a lover ! |
| 26 | Often I had to learn two beats per night . |
| 27 | At that time I was turning it out with some facility , and I had had two poems published in The Isis in my first year . |
| 28 | I also bound up with my brochure , a number of photographs ; for I had taken two cameras abroad . |
| 29 | She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me . |
| 30 | I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law . |