Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 2 | Having become ill in Prestwick , he was admitted to Park Nursing Home , Glasgow , where he died two days later , 5 February 1934 . |
| 3 | His head cleared at his second , where he thrashed two drivers on to the green , while he went to two under for the day at his fifth , the short 14th , where he hit a seven-iron to 7ft . |
| 4 | He drifted into junior football but then linked up again with McFall at Portadown — where he won two championship medals . |
| 5 | The defendant , who was driving his car in Jermyn Street , was arrested after a roadside breath test proved positive and taken to a police station , where he provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 6 | Murray gave him petrol money and a bundle of £20 notes amounting to several hundred pounds and Mr Taylor drove to Carlisle and then Liverpool , where he obtained two balls containing powder . |
| 7 | He left the corner and trekked a few blocks east until he found a bar , where he put two bourbons down his throat , and wished to his core that alcohol and not the opposite sex had been his addiction . |
| 8 | It was just after seven so he had two hours before his appointment with Elisa Stasi . |
| 9 | Yarnell decided to prove his point so he detached two aircraft carriers , the Saratoga and Lexington and a few destroyers from his battle fleet and set sail for Oahu in poor weather conditions , radio silence and no lights . |
| 10 | Like all sheep farmers , Peter Capener in Staffordshire faced this situation … until he installed two 3W infra-red heaters . |
| 11 | She was out , so he held three women staff hostage until he allowed two policemen to take their place . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | it really was So erm but I do n't know , I , I think if Jim got a ticket , if he got two tickets and he said do you wan na come ? |
| 14 | ‘ Him , ’ they said , ‘ if he had two watches he still would n't give you the time . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If he had two eyes like any one else , ’ said Fribble , ‘ I could stand it . |
| 16 | Of course he 'd be happier if he had two legs , so would she , so would everyone , but he 'd rather live with one leg than not live at all . |
| 17 | If he sells two horses , how long should the food last now ? |
| 18 | I wonder if he left two minutes in hand , like me , to get from the barrier to a compartment level with the Greenwich exit , or three , or five , or whether he liked to arrive at the very last moment and leave a slight uncertainty in the air . |
| 19 | If he did two miles in half an hour , how far would he go in one hour ? |
| 20 | All three phrases describe forms of impossibility : language can say it , but a man can not do it — unless he has two selves . ) |
| 21 | Old Mr Pascall saw no reason why he should make life easy for a gossiping female and made her hold on , while he sold two ballpoint pens and a packet of rubber bands . |
| 22 | We have no indication that his parents have had any contact with him since he disappeared two years ago . ’ |
| 23 | It was only after he took two bullets in the thigh and wrist and a shotgun blast in the back , and his brother was murdered by rival gangs that he channelled his aggression into baseball . |
| 24 | Davies , a security guard , of Feltham , north London , was jailed for 30 months after he admitted two charges of false imprisonment and causing actual bodily harm . |
| 25 | Northallerton magistrates sentenced the 20-year-old to a total of seven months in a youth custody centre after he admitted two burglary charges and asked for another seven offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 26 | I did n't know whether he had two loans or not or whatever it is because |
| 27 | Before he served two years in prison , Bobby Lavender had , as they say in LA , ‘ dressed the dress , walked the walk and talked the talk ’ of the black urban gangster . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | The pilot of a puma helicopter flying between the Magnus Oil platform and another platform when he saw two bombers ahead of him . |
| 30 | Constable Dale Buckingham had just collected the car from the scene of the raid , in Bristol , and was taking it to his police station when he saw two men he suspected of being involved in the raid , and stopped . |