Example sentences of "[pron] be [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 | ‘ I was pursuing two Germans who were attempting to escape . ’ |
14 | I was born two miles away . |
15 | When I was born two voices cried from my mouth . |
16 | I was given two year option in the first place , so so |
17 | 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 . |
18 | In the guards ' room I was shown two videos . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | He was duly cited for contempt , received a thirty-day sentence to jail and a fine , which were quashed two years later on appeal . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 … ’ |
24 | The 55-year-old coach of Grove Athletics Club has already begun her new role by encouraging local sporting and musical groups to consider visits to Mari and has formed a link with a Wantage-based company , Autotype International , which is sending two executives to Mari El in July . |
25 | The liberals believe they are under-represented in the Congress , which was elected two years ago under the old Soviet system . |
26 | That 's right which was run two days a week for over for three and a half weeks . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . ’ |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Makita suggests that if you are using two battery packs , the charger should be left to cool down for 15 minutes between chargings . |