Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I did return to nurse them for two years |
| 2 | I returned to London , and was unable to find you until two hours ago . ’ |
| 3 | Five management personnel brought in a local French teacher , Eileen Hutchinson through Pontefract company ‘ Communication 92 ’ to lead them through two hours of French instruction each week using a text book and cassette tape course . |
| 4 | If your list of suspect foods is very extensive , it may be better to split them into two groups and try eliminating each group in turn . |
| 5 | Okay , what I 'm going to do now is I 'm going to split you in , into groups , I want to split you into two groups , we could have up to you , and the dividing line will be you and then at the back there . |
| 6 | We have to tackle it in two directions , and I think that education is going to be incredibly important in terms of trying to create a more appropriate atmosphere in the colleges , you know , because at the end of the day that 's where people spend an enormous amount of their time . |
| 7 | Her daughter , Linda de Roulet , inherited the picture , never thinking to sell it until two events changed her mind . |
| 8 | Well I 'm coming back to see you in two weeks ' time so could I maybe get the information off you then ? |
| 9 | But I would b , e very glad if I might see you on your return to ask you to help me in two cases . |
| 10 | When a record turns out to be a synonym , there are two alternatives : these are to store the synonym at once , in which case the process is called a one-pass load , or to load it in two passes , which is called a two-pass load . |
| 11 | Most fishermen operating in offshore waters will have to use the devices immediately ; those fishing inshore or using smaller boats will have to use them within two years . |
| 12 | Side effects of the IUD and hormone contraceptives like the pill and Depo Provera are major reasons why between 40 and 70 per cent of users in the Third World to abandon them within two years . |
| 13 | Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) . |
| 14 | There 's not much point in paying out over £100 if you 're only going to use it for two weeks a year on holiday . |
| 15 | KAMPALA ( Reuter ) — Uganda 's President , Yoweri Museveni , whose government 's four-year term ends in four months , wants to extend it by two years to draft a new constitution . |
| 16 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 17 | Yet another way in which you might choose to use the second half of your daily Fibre-Filler is to divide it into two portions and eat one of these half an hour before each of the two main meals of the day . |
| 18 | To divide it into two parts , heaven and earth , might still be admissible , as it was for Newton , when discussing theological and political symbolism . |
| 19 | He liked her to phone him for two reasons — it kept his phone bills down and if Gina answered it proved that he was fancied . |
| 20 | I knew I needed the disguise because I would be able to surprise him by two hours at the most . |
| 21 | And we would never be able to surprise him by two hours at the most . |
| 22 | For instance , if that 's an overseer 's house and you extend the town and want to turn it into two labourers ’ houses , all you do is add a w.c. upstairs , change the stair entry , and remove the coloured-tile decoration from the balcony and cornice . ’ |
| 23 | At the age of 37 — old by Australian standards — Border accepts that he is nearing the end of his career but he is desparate to prolong it for two reasons . |
| 24 | To kill it with two blows is less meritorious ! ’ |
| 25 | I 'm sure we can get an accountant to come and speak to us , but we might have to pay him for two hours work , you see . |
| 26 | In general , we can say that if the free energy-composition curve has a shape which allows a tangent to touch it at two points , phase separation will occur . |
| 27 | I am going to tell you of two glimpses that have retained their clarity for me over the years while important and famous things have faded . |