Example sentences of "for [pron] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since my brother 's death it has been my duty to care for my two nieces . |
| 2 | I 'm looking for my two cousins . |
| 3 | In the pre-machinery days I used to start in August to hand knit gloves for my two school-boy sons . |
| 4 | And for my two friends here ? ’ |
| 5 | He led me back to the dining hall , vast and empty save for my two friends . |
| 6 | Between the noise of the bloody guns and clouds of bloody mosquitoes buzzing around my head , all I 've had for my two hours is more mosquito lumps on my face , and I 'm more tired than ever. , Taff and I chatted while he sat on the floor of the trench smoking his cigarette . |
| 7 | I then tried Miss Selfridge for my two girls , Tara and Katy . |
| 8 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 9 | No , I 'm looking for my two daughters . |
| 10 | The excitement was too much for my two sisters who had been left to look after me . |
| 11 | She paid for her two teas and quit the hotel . |
| 12 | Breeze , who had hatched a good many herself , quickened her steps to a run , for her two friends were waiting . |
| 13 | The 26-year-old woman , of Southampton , had a sliding scale of punishments for her two daughters , magistrates in the city were told . |
| 14 | But , ever concerned for her two daughters , she quickly added , ‘ You and Cara are all right ? ’ |
| 15 | One woman said ( despite having a nanny for her two kids ) : ‘ I do the washing one night , the ironing another . |
| 16 | Mrs Said , a refugee from Somalia , was asking permission for her two sisters and their children in a refuge camp in Ethiopia to join her here . |
| 17 | It is worth seeing for its two marble medallions which show the Annunciation , with the angel on the left and the Virgin Mary on the right , the work of Agostino Busti . |
| 18 | With a Mozart concerto framed by Beethoven and Richard Strauss in the first , and the British premiere of American composer John Corigliano 's First Symphony scheduled to be partnered by four Ravel pieces in the second , the originally announced programmes for its two Festival Hall concerts had been deliberately chosen to illustrate the Chicago 's versatility . |
| 19 | The company reportedly wanted freedom for its two employees and for the case to be resolved without any further embarrassment . |
| 20 | Although the worst boroughs , including Bramber , Seaford and Midhurst , were disfranchised by the 1832 Reform Act and the county was given four M.P.s for its two halves , much of the old pattern continued until the 1870s and 1880s . |
| 21 | They long above everything for their two parents to be reunited . |
| 22 | His wife , Sarah , was also a canoeist before they met but they now face the problem of babysitters for their two youngsters . |
| 23 | Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another . |
| 24 | Now she baby-sits for their two children . |
| 25 | Theodora wound her way down the long narrow garden , bowing her head under the arching tendrils of the old roses , edging past the organic asparagus bed and avoiding the hazard of the flight paths of bees intent on making for their two hives . |
| 26 | For which two sports did Colin Moynihan win Blues at Oxford University ? |
| 27 | I shall have to see if I can get a sitter for you two children . |
| 28 | It contained a bible , a penknife with a horn handle , a clay pipe , and the verse which she had written out for him two Christmases ago : ‘ For hearts of truest mettle , Absence doth join and time doth settle . ’ |
| 29 | No , we never sent for him two nights ago . ’ |
| 30 | One reason why Pound 's scales must ‘ slide ’ is that nowhere in his criticism does Pound forget chronology — literary history and literary criticism are for him two aspects of one unified act of attention . |