Example sentences of "say [pron] [vb past] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters .
2 Boswell 's account says they rode two miles to the shore to find a herring-boat which would take them out to Raasay .
3 Mr Tomlinson says he spent two months solidly working from 5.30am in the morning until 10.30 in the evening , including weekends .
4 He says he spent two weeks in hospital when he was helpless and that brought it all home to him .
5 A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) .
6 And she said ooh she said I got two grandads .
7 ‘ You said you had two jobs for me , sir . ’
8 ‘ As you said she did two nights ago .
9 Cos people often used to say to me because I 'd , I 'd played everything you could play except golf , and , and er , and I , I , people used to say you did two men 's work and you I , I met a chap one day , this was an instance , I 'm not trying to blow me trumpet do n't think that at all .
10 Another grandfather , a retired Manchester newsagent , would light the fires , mend shoes , and peel the potatoes , while in a south London stableman 's home the grandfather would clean the shoes and cook too — ‘ We always said we had two mothers and two fathers , always . ’
11 Gordon Bateman , who had been planning to set up an agency in Reading , Berkshire , said he had two meetings with Steen .
12 He said he had two sisters but that he was the only and beloved son .
13 Mr Hannis said he took two people in for ten weeks .
14 ‘ But the staff there said he disappeared two days later .
15 Vic said he thought two camps were a good idea because there would have been two originally and it would psychologically prepare the Indians for playing their ancestors , which I said was just a rationalisation of elitism .
16 Did you say she had two son 's ? , is the other one married ? .
17 They are the leaders of the Vauxhall League division two south , so I suppose you could say they dropped two points today ; Harefield two , Abingdon Town two , our reporter , Nick Quayle .
18 I was amazed to hear him say he did two hours ‘ warming-up ’ exercises before he did his muscle-building stuff .
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