Example sentences of "we [verb] two [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 For our purposes , however , no harm will be done if we distinguish two uses of ‘ I believe that … ’ . one in which it expresses the tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , the other in which it expresses the belief or awareness that the speaker has the belief .
2 As before , a guard accompanied me to the barracks ; but this time , on the way back , we met two officers : it was exactly what I had hoped for .
3 On the way we met two patrols with machine guns and my escort had to give what I thought was a password .
4 In those days we would always start the hay-making at Hury , a parcel of land we owned two miles down the road .
5 We made two mistakes which cost us dearly .
6 And we made two cars one big and one small .
7 We pick two factors two numbers that would make you multiply them together and they would make three sixty .
8 He took me to lunch at a discreetly ill-lit restaurant and then to an hotel on the Ile St Louis , where we passed two hours of the afternoon gratifying his fantasies .
9 We became two countries .
10 We got two pounds a month .
11 We got two tins of those now .
12 No , two girls that 's nice , we got two girls , they 've got two boys , Brian and , so that 's alright , , we 're quite happy .
13 We got two boxes and an armful of
14 Yeah I know , but we got two hands against your one .
15 ‘ I played against them twice out there in 1984 and we got two hammerings .
16 We got two presentations of most of the stuff too .
17 Anyway , we got two bands out of it , both of which have had Number Ones . ’
18 You could n't cut them that day cos they were hot , you see , the day you killed them the , cos father was a rare man he , when we got , we got two fridges , we used to kill a week in hand , you see , one lot was in one fridge , that was in there a week before we touched it yeah .
19 By ‘ good ’ we mean two things :
20 Thirdly , we develop two extensions of the Keynesian model : the multiplier and gap analysis .
21 Why do we need two nurses going round with a medicine tray ?
22 I mean , why do we need two mathematicians ?
23 If all men are human beings , why should we need two categories instead of one ?
24 Why then do we need two words , which help us to distinguish nationalism from ethnicity , though both are so closely identified today ?
25 SIR , — We report two patients who had granulomas in abdominal lymph nodes and who were subsequently found to have Helicobacter pylori-associated gastritis .
26 In Section 11.3 , we described two possibilities : depth-first and frontier search .
27 We detail two cases where initiatives have been taken to stay ahead and stand out amongst other law firms .
28 In early April 1946 U Sein Ywet and I did a seven-days tour in the Delta in which we visited two towns and ten villages , listening to government officers , elders , headmen , and representatives from nearly a hundred villages , which convinced me that much more needed to be done for the towns and villages outside Rangoon .
29 You might go and collect , oh er what Coliupe Collium , Collium Maculatum , spotted come up , you 'd go and cut it , you know , bring it in , get the Succus Conium that would keep you going , you know , sometimes he would he 'd say Oh blast you , we used two garlands of it .
30 We used two approximations , dushchinta ( ‘ undue worries ’ ) and udhbeg ( a word for ‘ anxiety ’ generally used only in its written form ) .
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