Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] two [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And I got two polo necks one with slight ribs in . |
2 | ‘ 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 . |
3 | ‘ 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | He left Fontanellato early the following January , and I received two cards from him written in excellent Italian . |
6 | Linda and I spent two hours riding around Villa Maura later in the week trying to find the site . |
7 | 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 |
8 | So I went over and I bought two necklaces , I gave them to Julie who made the shirt , and she took them apart |
9 | And I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that and I did n't know what I shou . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | actually it 's a bit boring down there now but they , they had to put my , my explanation of the price of petrol er down , there 's nowhere to thing , cos th the last time I was down there I asked for a pint of bitter and this guy bought it me and said and I wanted two pound thirty or something . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | And you had two hours , fifty two minutes , right , so which is the next one , this one ? |
14 | 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 . |
15 | And you did two years as an apprentice then another would come in and you dropped the bib and got a black apron . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | They were beautiful and she had two others did n't she ? |
19 | ‘ 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 . |
20 | ‘ I played against them twice out there in 1984 and we got two hammerings . |
21 | But the company was always wanting new plays , and we had two theatres now . |
22 | ten ninety five and , and we had two bottles last night so it costs us sixty pounds . |
23 | And we had two shields , we had two separate teams to go immediately to the two bedrooms which , in our er esti est estimations , that will be where any adults were more likely to be in the flat . |
24 | Well that was , that was the crew 's job you see cos you used to have , they used to be erm , they used to be the master of the ship , my father , and they would still have a mate , he 's dead and gone and there was myself one side on the starboard side on a winch and we had two men right aft on the after winch and they used to have to look after three chains . |
25 | And we had two years with no pay rise . |
26 | We had er they were sleeping all over everywhere at Christmas time , on the floor , seem to remember dozens of people then and we kept two maids then and a gardener . |
27 | And we made two cars one big and one small . |
28 | Then we went on a nature ramble and we saw two men cows doing it . |
29 | Dick had qualified from London in 1817 but his new school was too remote from London to affect Coleman 's autocracy and there developed two monopolies , the old one in London and a new one in Edinburgh . |
30 | As darkness fell there was hardly a soul about , but just before 9pm it seemed the whole village poured out into the street , and there appeared two men carrying shoulder-high the most grotesque straw figure of a man , its eyes glowing in the darkness from torch bulbs hidden in its head . |