Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 3 | On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door . |
| 4 | From these authorities I collect two things . |
| 5 | It is proving a delight to use ; on my fist attempt I punched two cards in quick succession without making a single mistake and with no strain to my hands — despite the instructions for the punching being written in Japanese only ! |
| 6 | To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour . |
| 7 | Mummy I got two bears . |
| 8 | In Kuwait it is just that we by the way in Kuwait we have two courts , we have the civil courts and we have the Islamic court , and erm Islamic cases go to the Islamic court and otherwise they go to the civil court , except just we we accept erm how to live our live in a modern way and keeping up with the times , and it is a tradition that we have adopted in Kuwait , and the fact that it is for women can drive in Kuwait versus those that do n't in Saudi Arabia , I do n't believe I 'd like to put that in the Islamic context , it 's just a way of life which we have adopted . |
| 9 | In the last chapter we introduced two notions of equity : horizontal equity , or the equal treatment of equals , and vertical equity , the redistribution from the ‘ haves ’ to the ‘ have-nots ’ . |
| 10 | To attach the sail to the boom we have two clips , one simply holds the sail down to the boom , whilst the other one , the out-haul is used to bury the tension on the foot of the sail . |
| 11 | For the next theorem we need two definitions . |
| 12 | So if somebody just writes those two words they get two marks . |
| 13 | It has sixty four pages with one hundred and ninety thousand words They spent two days working around the clock typing it into a computer , now their master disc is being used by a Sunday newspaper to publish the whole thing this weekend . |
| 14 | When Insurers settle a total loss they acquire two types of rights — the entitlement to take over the Policyholder 's interest in the subject matter insured , and all the Policyholder 's rights and remedies in respect of the casualty which caused the loss . |
| 15 | His job is to clean along the paths of the Zoo and that thing he pushes is for the rubbish he collects , and along its side he has two brooms and a shovel . |
| 16 | In practice it overlooks two things . |
| 17 | In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition . |
| 18 | To help it in these roles it has two seats on Council which is the top executive body of the University . |
| 19 | He was hired anyway on the condition he spend two months studying English at Berlitz . |
| 20 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 21 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 22 | A lady has just said one of your earlier callers has just said that Council are out of touch well we should n't be out of touch and that is this exercise you have two councillors on here from different parties showing a concern for the trees . |
| 23 | In the F test we have two measures of the degrees of freedom , right , you need to have the degrees of freedom in the numerator N one and in denominator N two . |
| 24 | When extracts from the HeLa cervical epithelial cell line were used in this assay we observed two complexes as in our previous experiments ( Figure 2b ) . |
| 25 | Identifying now v=2xy with the potential and u=x2-y2 with the field lines we get two sets of orthogonal hyperbolas . |
| 26 | I.A. Richards has defined metaphor like this : " In the simplest formulation , when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word , or phrase , whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction . " |
| 27 | Health and Safety Executive representative Neil Anderson said Peter McKay was working on a cutting machine when his glove became entangled with a rotating bar he broke two bones in his left hand and was off work for six weeks . |
| 28 | The first time I saw Mark Foo he had two girls with him . |
| 29 | The last time I saw Mark Foo he had two girls with him — not the same two . |
| 30 | with the dining room at one end and a sitting room at the other in which case you had two light , ceiling light |