Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
2 | And I 've got a fourth board on exercise and I 've two boards I have n't started . |
3 | ‘ But when we got married and I had two children he did n't want me to work any more , and he got very jealous of other men looking at me . |
4 | ‘ I 've still got a steel plate and screws in my leg after breaking both ankles last year and I had two falls in four days in July . |
5 | My hon. Friend 's second criticism of the way in which the scheme has worked is that the £24 million budget which was set aside for the two financial years — and I emphasise two years — 1989-91 was underspent . |
6 | ‘ And I seen two gulls . |
7 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |
8 | He left Fontanellato early the following January , and I received two cards from him written in excellent Italian . |
9 | Linda and I spent two hours riding around Villa Maura later in the week trying to find the site . |
10 | and er , they were coming up and went across to get a drink of lemonade and it was a bloody hot day , really , you know a midsummer day and erm , we went across to this kind of cafe place that 's opposite the station and I saw two men with rubber boots on |
11 | ‘ That 's right and I want two things . |
12 | and I want two boxes |
13 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
14 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
15 | So I went over and I bought two necklaces , I gave them to Julie who made the shirt , and she took them apart |
16 | And I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that and I did n't know what I shou . |
17 | and I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that , I did n't know what , now I do n't know how they manage this year because , she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around , there you are , you see , these , they , they will love and find a way , anyway , erm , I said dear look , a woman needs a man to support her I said mark my words when the chap that she 's got at the moment is taken her out to disco 's and things , she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
18 | Unlikely as this is , Minton was nevertheless a welcome visitor to Lehmann 's cottage near Three Bridges in Sussex , acquired in 1951 , and which had two acres of land and a miniature lake . |
19 | And you had two hours , fifty two minutes , right , so which is the next one , this one ? |
20 | Suppose the Universe really was like that , and you had two astronauts leaving the Earth at the same time in opposite directions , one from the North Pole , the other from the South . |
21 | The Lynx is larger than the GameBoy and you need two hands to hold it . |
22 | The second card you turn over is the matching six and you have two pairs . |
23 | But you are going to have a horse , Nails , and you have two weeks in which to learn to ride it , and you are going to have to work damned hard , because it 's a damned hard horse to ride . |
24 | And you did two years as an apprentice then another would come in and you dropped the bib and got a black apron . |
25 | The following afternoon Heather called for Shirley , who was in her Six and who lived two doors away from her , and asked her to go with her to Olinton Farm to get some butter . |
26 | A slight sudden puff of breeze lifted a thickly leafed branch in front of her and she saw two figures , framed by the foliage at the instant their lips met in a long , smooth , seductive and very mutual kiss . |
27 | They were beautiful and she had two others did n't she ? |
28 | Her mother , Joy , is a physiotherapist at the Memorial Hospital , father , Jim , is overseas director for Newcastle engineers NEI and she has two brothers , Christian , 15 , and Simon , 11 . |
29 | ‘ La Greine is a tough mare , ’ he said ‘ and she won two point-to-points this year as well as a hunter chase at Downpatrick in April when Paul rode her . |
30 | ‘ I played against them twice out there in 1984 and we got two hammerings . |