Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing I played two rounds of golf yesterday … ’ |
| 2 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 3 | One hot after noon I was cycling on a lonely road to a country house where I had two pupils when I heard a plane buzzing rather low over my head . |
| 4 | It 's alright at Although I 'd two brothers , on or two would be away from home from home at the s the same time . |
| 5 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 6 | So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’ |
| 7 | Where is your proof that I garrotted two men , not to mention an old woman , in London ? |
| 8 | Now what I mean by that , is that every , you know , twenty working day month , I know from analysing my time , that I lose two days , two full days to major interruptions . |
| 9 | The ones that I did two years ago , which are giving a return of something about er nine to nine and a half percent a year , plus the potential for return in capital , will actually be very good . |
| 10 | The only difference with you is that I used two grains of gunpowder and no oil . |
| 11 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 12 | I know he has a meeting scheduled in St Maarten for the 20th , so I assume two nights will be fine . |
| 13 | The Danakil guide we had acquired at Bilen had tried to bolt on the march , so I detailed two soldiers to guard him till dawn . |
| 14 | ‘ So I had two choices . |
| 15 | The water was getting hot and becoming clouded with the residue of the last course , so I crumbled two Oxo cubes into it and stirred . |
| 16 | And I got two polo necks one with slight ribs in . |
| 17 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 18 | And I 've got a fourth board on exercise and I 've two boards I have n't started . |
| 19 | ‘ But when we got married and I had two children he did n't want me to work any more , and he got very jealous of other men looking at me . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've still got a steel plate and screws in my leg after breaking both ankles last year and I had two falls in four days in July . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend 's second criticism of the way in which the scheme has worked is that the £24 million budget which was set aside for the two financial years — and I emphasise two years — 1989-91 was underspent . |
| 22 | ‘ And I seen two gulls . |
| 23 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |
| 24 | He left Fontanellato early the following January , and I received two cards from him written in excellent Italian . |
| 25 | Linda and I spent two hours riding around Villa Maura later in the week trying to find the site . |
| 26 | and er , they were coming up and went across to get a drink of lemonade and it was a bloody hot day , really , you know a midsummer day and erm , we went across to this kind of cafe place that 's opposite the station and I saw two men with rubber boots on |
| 27 | ‘ That 's right and I want two things . |
| 28 | and I want two boxes |
| 29 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 30 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |