Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] 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 | 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 ! |
| 5 | To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour . |
| 6 | Mummy I got two bears . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | with the dining room at one end and a sitting room at the other in which case you had two light , ceiling light |
| 14 | And in that instant she understood two things . |
| 15 | For the moment I had two vehicles in PKB 's underground car park , Armstrong and Tel 's BMW . |
| 16 | That evening I received two elephant tusks , a heavy , ornate gold cigarette case , a large , colourful carpet and the third class of the Star of Ethiopia . |
| 17 | That evening I bought two sheep which the Somalis slaughtered ; they then gave the blood to some of the camels . |
| 18 | Yesterday evening we walked two miles through the snow to a very secluded little inn , which was a charming place — low rafters and a log fire . |
| 19 | At the last council meeting we did two things or two things have happened . |
| 20 | During this three-year period they applied two dressings of farmyard manure and in the intervening year they applied an indigenous legume crop as green manure . |
| 21 | When the subjects heard the tone in the centre of each junction they performed two rating tasks similar to those used in Studies 1 and 2 , first a risk rating , then an estimate for the actual accident statistics for the junction . |
| 22 | At this period he added two memoirs on Fife to the extensive list of books , memoirs and papers which had flowed from his pen . |
| 23 | The police , having interviewed working colleagues of the victim at the London Docks , had elicited information to the effect that at the end of his shift he met two men outside the gates and said he was going for a drink with them . |
| 24 | However , at the committee 's latest meeting he supported two amendments dealing with the status of church shops and newsagents . |
| 25 | ‘ As well as a £50,000 signing-on fee he wanted two cars and a nanny for his kids , plus his contract money . |
| 26 | To show what we meant by grammatical description we included two examples of how meaning is constructed in different kinds of language , both spoken and written . |
| 27 | For the next in our reports Inside The Globe I joined two contestants from our region when they met Jim Bowen and the Bullseye crew . |
| 28 | At either end of the aquarium I placed two terracotta dishes to contain the fish 's food . |
| 29 | Last night you had two fillets of plaice and he only had one . |
| 30 | That night we had two watchmen outside , just in case . |