Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] take two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll take two bob , then , and you can take the one an' six an' the penny interest out of it . |
| 2 | I put the receiver down for a moment so that I could take two hands to the strawboard . |
| 3 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 4 | I shall take two examples of that and apply them to London . |
| 5 | There are people on waiting lists , and I just want the chance to say something on this subject which will take two minutes . |
| 6 | Mrs Mawdsley then asked administration manager Dave McCreary if she could take two weeks ' annual leave and a week 's unpaid leave to go on holiday . |
| 7 | Erm you could take two cars if you want to . |
| 8 | And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest , to the door of the tent of meeting . |
| 9 | ‘ The song is about the power of the mind , how you can take two people and do the same thing to both of them . |
| 10 | We may take two approaches to the identification of this group . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'll take two pieces of bone from your pelvis and wire them to the top two vertebrae and your skull , ’ he said.d . |
| 12 | Dr Bacher , who confessed to feeling ‘ incredibly emotional , ’ said he was ‘ really happy we could take two teams on tour — the senior side which demonstrates where we are coming from , and the youth team where we are going . ’ |
| 13 | We can take two examples . |
| 14 | We can take two people from each yacht , and course members join us afloat from 10am to 5pm each day for 4 days during the first week of a Villa-Flotilla holiday . |
| 15 | It may take two kilometres to overtake one other rider . |
| 16 | Well no it 's only seventy pee a roll it might take two rolls but at least it 's , sort of , done . |
| 17 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 18 | We 've got a nice piece of beef , and it 'll take two hours at least . ’ |
| 19 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
| 20 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 21 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 22 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 23 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 24 | It would take two years to decide whether the country would leave the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) , he said , but it was hoped that Namibia would be able to set up " a foreign exchange control system more liberal than the one which we must accept at present " . |
| 25 | Professor Baldassare Conticello , the Soprintendente , estimates that at this rate it will take two generations before the whole of Pompeii is once more in a stable condition . |
| 26 | Even with the best economic policy it will take two years from this point to go through the unavoidable stages of deflation and recession to reach the start of recovery . |
| 27 | A tea bush requires constant attention : if not plucked for a year it can take two years to return to normal ; if bushes have to be uprooted , new ones take seven years to come into production . |