Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] only two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All three judges gave me the decision and having watched the video , I reckon I lost only two rounds — the fourth and the tenth . ’ |
| 2 | In more than two years of living with one band of Semai , my wife and I witnessed only two instances of large-scale co-operative action , one of which I had to organize myself to mobilize a labour force to repair a dangerously deteriorated suspension bridge which nearly everyone in the band used every day , and which was literally on the verge of collapse . |
| 3 | He examined me , and was not surprised to find I had only two legs , though of course I squealed about it . |
| 4 | With the years , it had seemed to get heavier , so that now she made only two excursions a week , mostly to the outskirts , making a point never to visit the same house more than twice a year . |
| 5 | But she got only two steps . |
| 6 | They married on 15 October 1753 , but it proved to be a short-lived union for she died only two years later . |
| 7 | She remembered only two things about New York with affection : the man at Pennsylvania Station , perched high in a little glass box , who announced the trains in the rhythm of a square dance , and the man who returned her purse which she 'd dropped on the platform — a black man . |
| 8 | In Bolivia she had only two cameras ; her trusty Nikon and a Hasselblad CM500 and a wide-angled lens . |
| 9 | In Bolivia she had only two cameras ; her trusty Nikon and a Hasselblad CM 500 and a wide-angled lens . |
| 10 | If you had only two bullets , who would you shoot among Saddam Hussein , Yasser Arafat or Paul Keating ? |
| 11 | ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said . |
| 12 | Because of the present shortage of entrants to general practice , we received only two replies to each of our advertisements . |
| 13 | In the dialect-divergent community we found this problematic , and we located only two vowel variables that could be reliably quantified in this way . |
| 14 | It goes on to state that the cell had no electricity and no floor covering , the prisoners were allowed few clothes and they received only two meals a day , one consisting of a single very small momo ( steamed bun ) and the other of a small cup of wormy vegetables . |
| 15 | They knew only two ways to make money out of territorial expansion : to find gold and silver , or to make themselves into landlords with plenty of tenants to cultivate their new estates . |
| 16 | They had only two rooms . |
| 17 | The Assistant Commissioners ' later report mentions that Lightpill was occupied by Brown and Tucker , and that they had only two hand looms , both unemployed . |
| 18 | ‘ It happened only two minutes from home , ’ he recalls . |
| 19 | He spent only two years at school . |
| 20 | Such was the enthusiasm and unanimity of the delegates of the steering committee that it required only two meetings to complete their task . |
| 21 | He examined only two FT-SE index futures contracts , March 1985 and June 1985 , and a significant maturity effect was found for only the June 1985 contract . |
| 22 | On retiring from the post he became a life peer and was appointed deputy leader of the Labour Party in the Lords in 1982 , an office he relinquished only two years ago , |
| 23 | He became a life peer when he retired from that post and was appointed deputy leader of the Labour Party in the Lords in 1982 , an office he relinquished only two years ago . |
| 24 | He took only two wickets in the first Test after leapfrogging Essex man Mark Ilott when Alan Igglesden pulled out injured , but had two catches dropped by Graeme Hick , including Mark Taylor early in his match-winning innings . |
| 25 | In 520 hours of observation , he saw only two lambs being brought to the nest that might have been killed by eagles . |
| 26 | It contained only two songs : ‘ Soiled ’ , a frothy , winsome pop thing , and ‘ Soup ’ , a luscious paean to Judy Garland that was supremely infectious , full of wry wit ( ‘ You 're much thinner when you 're ill ’ ) and packed with aural surprises . |
| 27 | It took only two minutes of lying stretched and rigid on his bed for Alex Mair to realize that sleep was unlikely to come . |
| 28 | It took only two years of renewed civilian government to see this death toll increase by 50 per cent . |
| 29 | Bush 's humiliation approached that of George McGovern in 1972 , when he won only two seats in his attempt to oust Richard Nixon . |
| 30 | Later , he remembered only two things about the fight . |