Example sentences of "say [pron] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you covered the wire with more metal say you put two pieces of wire spare wire |
| 2 | Say you put two chemicals together . |
| 3 | Erm it 's a reaction , say you put two chemicals together . |
| 4 | But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters . |
| 5 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 6 | Boswell 's account says they rode two miles to the shore to find a herring-boat which would take them out to Raasay . |
| 7 | Mr Tomlinson says he spent two months solidly working from 5.30am in the morning until 10.30 in the evening , including weekends . |
| 8 | He says he spent two weeks in hospital when he was helpless and that brought it all home to him . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Erm to be honest it 's no good saying you need two members of staff every office , on health and safety grounds . |
| 11 | And she said ooh she said I got two grandads . |
| 12 | Are erm erm have been made I 'd like to simply to say I think two things . |
| 13 | ‘ You said you had two jobs for me , sir . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ As you said she did two nights ago . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I do n't want to put a damper on your ambitions , but this species is very difficult to sex , and it may be more accurate to say you have two fish rather than a pair . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Gordon Bateman , who had been planning to set up an agency in Reading , Berkshire , said he had two meetings with Steen . |
| 19 | He said he had two sisters but that he was the only and beloved son . |
| 20 | Mr Hannis said he took two people in for ten weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ But the staff there said he disappeared two days later . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I would say you have two choices , ’ he rasped , frowning down at her . |
| 24 | Did you say she had two son 's ? , is the other one married ? . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I was amazed to hear him say he did two hours ‘ warming-up ’ exercises before he did his muscle-building stuff . |