Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb -s] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quality 's main geographical markets are the UK and Australia , where it has two offices , one in Melbourne and one in Sydney . |
| 2 | As Gore Vidal once remarked on TV , ‘ America has one-party , the Property Party , although it has two wings , the Republican and Democratic ’ . |
| 3 | When my husband takes his shirts off I have to wash them straight away — like he wears two shirts on Sunday and I wash them as soon as he takes them off . |
| 4 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 5 | We can speak of an orbital as being full if it contains two electrons , half-filled if it has a single electron , or empty . |
| 6 | IF IT HAS TWO ENGINES , WHERE 'S THE OTHER ONE ? |
| 7 | If he sells two horses , how long should the food last now ? |
| 8 | cos it has two bands of rib |
| 9 | All three phrases describe forms of impossibility : language can say it , but a man can not do it — unless he has two selves . ) |
| 10 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 11 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 12 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
| 13 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
| 14 | The disadvantages , however , are that it would be much more expensive to construct , requiring the construction of several bridges , and the fact that while it straddles two council areas , there will be no possibility of support from Ards Borough Council as their Tourist Officer has an agreement with Down District Council not to support a tourist railway in the Ards area as there is already one under way in the Down District area at Downpatrick . |
| 15 | The latter is of particular significance , since it allows two way communication : input and output through an LCD screen , using a special pen . |
| 16 | Hollywood glories in sadism and presents brutality as light entertainment , according to Medved , citing Danny Glover 's comment in Lethal Weapon 2 , when he kills two thugs by applying a nail gun to their temples : ‘ I nailed 'em both . ’ |
| 17 | 1.50 Once the 21 days for acceptance have passed or the trial has started the plaintiff can take the money in court only with the defendant 's consent or by order unless the payment in itself was made or increased after the trial started , when he has two days to accept , but must do so before the judge begins to deliver his judgment ( RSC Ord 22 , r5 ; CCR Ord 11 , r3 ) . |
| 18 | The sheep wisely leave it alone and most bugs do , too , for it contains two chemicals which , when mixed together in a creature 's stomach , make cyanide . |