Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have rarely met two Ministers who take more trouble to carry out the duties of their ministerial office . |
| 2 | ‘ I have only done two films in Hollywood and part of another . |
| 3 | I have only seen two rats , and they were both outside the house and both dead . |
| 4 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 5 | ‘ We have only advertised two posts in the past year , the previous one attracted 300 applicants . ’ |
| 6 | Moreover , Celtic have only conceded two goals during their most consistent spell of the season . |
| 7 | Everton have only managed two goals in this ten year spell , one of them being an own goal scored by Stuart Pearce last season . |
| 8 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
| 9 | We have already received two ideas , which might prove useful in the workshop . |
| 10 | We have already seen two examples of this : the refusals from E-2 and Conversation J where a potentially face-threatening refusal was instead treated as jocular and received with laughter . |
| 11 | As a lead-up to national Youth Sunday , parish youth groups have already enjoyed two deanery events . |
| 12 | We have already mentioned two factors that make the entire structure more progressive than an examination of income tax alone would suggest . |
| 13 | I have already mentioned two ways by which it is possible to travel eastwards out of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and into the Mauléon valley , both of them remote and somewhat tortuous : the mountain roads through Ahusquy or over the Col Bagargui a little further south . |
| 14 | The church and the French diplomatic authorities have asked the federal police to take over the investigations , but the state police have already arrested two men and accused them of the crime . |
| 15 | RWC chairman Russ Thomas said : ‘ We are satisfied that South Africa can stage it — we have already had two meetings with them . |
| 16 | Despite the two-child family becoming the average this century , most women married since 1930 have not had two children : three-quarters had at least one child more or less than the average . |
| 17 | ‘ It does not matter if you are the world champion or a top-ranking player or if you have just won two tournaments in a row . |
| 18 | Technically Ireland have still to secure two points from their remaining two qualifying games for the American finals , but bookmakers are already rating them an 8–1 on shot to make the trip following their 2–0 win over Lithuania in Dublin this week . |
| 19 | I have still got two quilts that she made , which have been in use for as long as I can recall . |
| 20 | However in the circumstances which I will relate , the appeals have also raised two questions of much wider importance . |
| 21 | We have also presented two examples of how rational expectations introduce testable restrictions : in the first we examined the relationship between the spot and the forward exchange rates and in the second we examined the implications for the term structure of interest rates . |
| 22 | Israeli archaeologists have also discovered two caves used by other Jewish anti-Roman activists , including a priest . |
| 23 | The band have also cancelled two dates at Hull Tower Ballroom and Manchester University , and added six dates at . |
| 24 | However , studies of groups have repeatedly found two behaviour patterns which recur : |
| 25 | They have typically had two motivations . |
| 26 | Anyway , so erm he said , but you know he was saying to them that er , it 's not just at the bottom end , he said , in our village in Wales we 've got the Sun have now positioned two reporters who have lived in the village the these the they sit in a car outside his house day and night |
| 27 | The Highwaymen have now recorded two albums together , but on stage they largely prefer to stick to their solo turns . |
| 28 | All Leeds , who remain a point behind Manchester United but have now played two games more , can hope for is a similar display by City at Old Trafford on Tuesday . |
| 29 | We have now identified two levels of stress : primary and secondary , as well as a third level which can be called unstressed and regarded as being the absence of any recognisable amount of prominence . |
| 30 | After lengthy discussions and planning , a group of volunteers have now purchased two steam locomotives , a large bogie brake van and a bogie wagon . |