Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] two thing " in BNC.
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1 | I will say two things about this issue . |
2 | ’ You know , ’ she said , ’ I can tell two things from the way everybody looks at me this morning . |
3 | If I can clarify two things there first of all . |
4 | If you change the term to 10 years you will discover two things : first the column of results is n't wide enough and second , after increasing the column width , you find that the final amount is £1,638 including £438 interest and the earnings ratio is more than double , at 36.57% . |
5 | Nevertheless , Gaitskell did not think that the issue of public ownership was ‘ sterile ’ and during the heated debates on Clause IV he stated : ‘ I conclude that we should make two things clear to the country . |
6 | We must do two things together ( Cameron found his thoughts concentrating to a point at last ) . |
7 | To answer a relevant costing question we must do two things : |
8 | We shall require two things of an idiom : first , that it be lexically complex — i.e. it should consist of more than one lexical constituent ; second , that it should be a single minimal semantic constituent . |
9 | The behaviourists insist that we can observe two things : first , what an animal does , and second , its previous environmental history . |
10 | ‘ Right , ’ said Sean , ‘ we can do two things . |
11 | Therefore I suggest to him that he should give an undertaking to do two things er first that he should do two things . |
12 | It 's bad enough that he should get two things wrong about what is perhaps one of the best known poems in the English language . |
13 | It will do two things wo n't it ? |
14 | This plea will succeed where he can show two things : ( i ) that he was radically mistaken about the nature or effect of the document ( ii ) that he was not careless in signing it , Saunders v. Anglian Building Society . |