Example sentences of "i [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching me wind two strands together on the cone winder he exclaimed ‘ Ah , now I know what ‘ k 2 tog ’ means ! ’ |
| 2 | This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace . |
| 3 | The flat roof of our own house was high enough for me to see two summer screens for free . |
| 4 | There I became two people — one who watched and one who tried to forget that the other watched . |
| 5 | May I make two points in reply to the hon. Gentleman ? |
| 6 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 7 | Do I want two year old triplets at fifty three ? |
| 8 | I mean The Sun is absolutely I mean I did tr have a go at reading the first one and I thought well I ca n't read this trash any longer , think I read two pages . |
| 9 | I made two attempts but they both failed , each time my fear of water proved too much . |
| 10 | I made two attempts . |
| 11 | I made two ruler from Tufnol ( 24x1–1/2x1/2in ) , then joined them with two brass strips , allowing about 1 in of play between the rulers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I mean two teachers come back and one of them says , Well I 've counted all those who are going to Whitby . |
| 14 | By which I mean two things . |
| 15 | Yeah I mean two things . |
| 16 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 17 | No , I mean two years ago I think we would have made wrong predictions about what 's happening now . |
| 18 | Now what I mean by that , is that every , you know , twenty working day month , I know from analysing my time , that I lose two days , two full days to major interruptions . |
| 19 | But Donald , to judge from the size of the congregation - they were three deep in the aisles and old Mr Donovan from 21b ( ‘ I fought two wars for you lot ’ ) had to wait outside the double doors — Donald was not experiencing what the French sociologist called the Lonely Death . |
| 20 | I posted two scripts for a series to be called ‘ The Raconteur ’ , which were a collection of after-dinner stories tied together by narration . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Where is your proof that I garrotted two men , not to mention an old woman , in London ? |
| 23 | ‘ I make two requests of you . |
| 24 | Then using white butter icing I make two sets of icing , say pink and white , and cover half the cakes with a layer of white and half with a layer of pink , decorate some with chocolate strands and some with hundreds and thousands ( sprinkleys ) . |
| 25 | When asked eight weeks ago what her dream for the future was , Tatum replied : ‘ It 's that when John 's career is finished he takes care of the kids while I make two pictures a year and get to pick my scripts and work with whoever I want . |
| 26 | I make two points : first , the incomes of pensioners in the lowest quintile have risen by 15 per cent . |
| 27 | I checked two items at random . |
| 28 | I got two pints of beer . |
| 29 | I got two flamers . ’ |
| 30 | I got two sets of photos back yesterday . |