Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion , I was cycling with my wife at Whipps Cross when I saw two 14-year-olds with their bicycles . |
| 2 | It was much later on in my thirties and on one occasion even later than that , when I met two men who at different times became very special to me . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's just that when you get two things happening like that , people say there 's going to be three , do n't they ? |
| 4 | Erm when you put two H two O what did you mean ? two H two O wherever it was there it is . |
| 5 | ‘ When you left two weeks ago , she was very unhappy . |
| 6 | On the main when you knit two colours in a row ( that is Fair Isle ) you are able to thread both colours in one row with one pass of the carriage . |
| 7 | For example when you buy two 3″ ( 7.5cm ) butterflies and a 4″ ( 10cm ) juvenile Emperor Angel . |
| 8 | When she returned two hours later , pausing to unhitch her skirt , which had caught on the wire safety railing , she could hear Nathan cursing angrily . |
| 9 | She could n't even feel a pulse when she laid two fingers beneath the angle of his jaw . |
| 10 | On the second occasion she was hit in the face when she found two men rifling her home . |
| 11 | We were about to carry on when we saw two women with their loads of pine-needles coming down the path towards us . |
| 12 | In the last game when we lost two players in the same position the last thing I wanted was to come to a quick decision with my brain still buzzing after a training session . |
| 13 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 14 | Carted all my engraving apparatus to Rydal Mount & when there made two drawings of the Mount … ’ ‘ 5th Nov . |
| 15 | He told the jury that the first raid occurred on April 3 at Sattherthwaite 's confectioners in Crosby when they threatened two women employees with a screwdriver and demanded cash . |
| 16 | Mr Globe said the first raid was at Satterthwaite 's confectioners in Crosby when they threatened two women with a screwdriver and stole £513 . |
| 17 | He said got very nasty when they scored two goals within two minutes around |
| 18 | Manchester United looked like they had forced themselves into the second round of the UEFA Cup when they went two goals ahead after four spot kicks when Paul Ince and Denis Irwin buried their chances . |
| 19 | She had worked ten years in the West End and had no friends in the suburb where she and Ron had been lucky to get the second floor of a house when they married two years ago . |
| 20 | The boys had been out on their bikes with a friend when they saw two men shooting into the brook . |
| 21 | ‘ We have already used them in two series at home — against India when they had two umpires from England and against the West Indies when both umpires were Indian . |
| 22 | Anyhow — it was Lyles at play or post work recreation when they gathered two teams together on 3rd May and had a good game of football at the Cumbernauld Sports Centre . |
| 23 | RSPCA inspectors found emaciated cattle and sheep , some dead , others dying , when they raided two farms in Gloucestershire earlier this year . |
| 24 | In the suffixes spelt ‘ iate ’ , ‘ ious ’ when they have two syllables , for example in ‘ appreciate ’ , ‘ hilarious ’ . |
| 25 | I think a lot of people feel vaguely when they see two duffers marrying that the duffers must prefer it that way . |
| 26 | Hollywood glories in sadism and presents brutality as light entertainment , according to Medved , citing Danny Glover 's comment in Lethal Weapon 2 , when he kills two thugs by applying a nail gun to their temples : ‘ I nailed 'em both . ’ |
| 27 | The pilot of a puma helicopter flying between the Magnus Oil platform and another platform when he saw two bombers ahead of him . |
| 28 | Constable Dale Buckingham had just collected the car from the scene of the raid , in Bristol , and was taking it to his police station when he saw two men he suspected of being involved in the raid , and stopped . |
| 29 | Essex paceman Neil Foster , hotly tipped for an England recall this summer , lived up to his nickname when he kicked two stumps out of the ground just before tea . |
| 30 | Mr Bowden said he pulled over onto the grass verge and was about level with the car when he heard two thuds as two other cars ran into it . |