Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has undergone two operations and now , hopefully , is on the road to gradual recovery . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's very hard for her because she has lost two sisters . |
| 3 | ‘ If the woman has to take money out of her purse then she has to use two hands and children can easily stray . ’ |
| 4 | So far she has won two classics , the St Leger ( twice ) and the Oaks . |
| 5 | ‘ He has sent two orderlies to get another ten or so men from the morgue . |
| 6 | From the heart of a large flat pebble-shaped stone he has revealed two fishes in brilliant , iridescent blues . |
| 7 | During our set Bill has to play sitting down because he has broken two fingers stage-diving during a Lush set . |
| 8 | It is true the man is bad , but he has done two years , almost , in prison . |
| 9 | ‘ Yet in his six years here he has won two championship medals and made a big contribution . |
| 10 | ‘ He has won two championship medals , he 's played a million games and he 's got the character to overcome setbacks like the one at Ibrox . ’ |
| 11 | Former Hull coach Smith , who has agreed a new 12-month contract with St George , claims he has had two offers to return to England for the 1993-4 season . |
| 12 | He has had two heart attacks and two major by-pass operations . |
| 13 | An employee will not be eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has had two years ' continuous employment . |
| 14 | He has acquired two UK trailer rental businesses : Central Trailer Rental in 1982 and Rentco International in 1988 . |
| 15 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 16 | He has sired two Derby winners , Golden Fleece and Shahrastani , and in the year of his Epsom triumph , was also responsible for the Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand . |
| 17 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 18 | Fremont , California-based Cirrus Logic Inc says it has received two shareholders ' class action lawsuits alleging it violated US securities laws ; in the usual phrase , it dismisses them as without merit and intends to contest them vigorously . |
| 19 | Faber 's agreement came into effect on 1st May ; it has appointed two part time merchandisers to support its reps in monitoring an agreed list of 400 Faber titles . |
| 20 | It has developed two types of condition . |
| 21 | In return , it has acquired two lawyers — Waddington and Mellor — plus a Wykehamist peer , Lord Ferrers . |
| 22 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 23 | , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in . |