Example sentences of "[prep] two [noun pl] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two dinners now I 've had enough . |
| 2 | His study was interrupted after two years when he was posted abroad and he rejoined OU three years ago . |
| 3 | But as I say he was the most conscientious removal man and after two years when he came in he was so upset . |
| 4 | Of the Irish contingent , The Committee on recent form stands out but if Cahervillahow were to recapture if only fleetingly the form of two years ago you need look no further for the winner . |
| 5 | ‘ As of two days ago I told them you were still alive . |
| 6 | Just under a hundred yards separated him from the police officers of two nations when he died . |
| 7 | Obviously with the coming of two elections shortly we have the opportunity to do a lot more canvassing and contact more members of the public and to draw in new members from there . |
| 8 | The fact is now I mean where like two years ago she was taking two and three exams at a time . |
| 9 | I was shaking so much that I had to lift the kettle with two hands when I staggered down the yard . |
| 10 | Gravier 's brother made his identification on circumstantial evidence and it was n't until two days later he had the remains cremated and that occurred in Mexico City . |
| 11 | Until two years ago he was , despite his flirtations with the Soviet Union , seen as an ally in President Reagan 's obsessional war against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua . |
| 12 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 13 | then in two minutes flat he was waving his hat |
| 14 | In two cases where he executed designs by Hawksmoor , the Clarendon Building ( 1712–15 ) and the north quadrangle of All Souls ( 1716–35 ) , he had submitted alternative proposals himself ; and at Christ Church library ( 1717–38 ) he acted as Clarke 's architectural amanuensis , drawing out his designs as well as executing them . |
| 15 | I knew I would n't get back in two hours when I was overtaken by a hopping rabbit . |
| 16 | On Saturday night at Manchester 's G-Mex Centre , Eubank , who modestly styles himself ‘ Simply the Best ’ , faces his 10th world title fight in two years when he tackles Juan Carlos Gimenez in a fourth defence of his WBO super-middleweight title since February and one he can not afford to lose . |
| 17 | The appointment of Stewart as vice-captain , opening batsman and wicketkeeper collapsed when Gooch missed the second Test , with Blakey consequently keeping wicket in two Tests when he was intended only for the one-day internationals . |
| 18 | Being of only flimsy material and fitting tightly round Angela 's body , it had burst in two places when she fell , and when Mummy tried to pull it off , it tore again . |
| 19 | But I think we need to prove that we 've actually communicated with quite a few people to say that if we do n't hear from you in two months then I 'm afraid the scheme will lapse . |
| 20 | WELL , YOU CAN SAY ONE thing for John Major : after ducking the date on two occasions when he might have won , he ca n't be accused of lacking courage in calling a general election when his party is at best level-pegging with Labour and , possibly , is even behind in the polls . |
| 21 | It is likely to be , even , that two mental events are not of the same type on two occasions when I give a more explicit description of my experience , perhaps that I was thinking that my daughter is a quick thinker . |
| 22 | and erm like I said up to about , up to about two years ago you could claim housing benefit with which you could pay your rent , and that was a great help to students you know , but now that 's been stopped , but you do n't get anything like that , so you 've got thirty five pound a week to pay for food , rent , community charge , everything |
| 23 | Basically you will listen for maybe seven minutes then you switch off for two minutes then you switch on again and then you try and think well what was I listening to seven minu well you know , three minutes ago what was probably said in the last two minutes . |
| 24 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 25 | British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then . |
| 26 | Smith 's mini gamble paid off for two ends later he stole a single to tie the score at 1-1 . |
| 27 | If you can home in on the fact that a full page is one thousand pounds per year for two years then it locks in . |
| 28 | For two weeks afterwards I cried more than I had done in my whole life . |
| 29 | For two days now he had sat in Isobel 's garage during most of school hours and planned his new book . |
| 30 | So we looked at two areas where we 've erm we were both very weak , erm , and I do n't we could even , we could n't even see it with regards this . |