Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [conj] he be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no American politician , especially a wealthy one , is going to last two minutes if he 's caught looking down his nose at folk the way the French do . |
| 2 | He 's only back from the war two minutes and he 's put the Medical Officer of Health 's nose out of joint . |
| 3 | His reign as champion , however , lasted only two months and he was stopped in the tenth round of a return contest in New York City . |
| 4 | , Samuel ( 1616– c. 1672 ) , haberdasher and radical pamphleteer , was baptized 13 September 1618 ( two years after he was born ) at St Chad 's , Shrewsbury , the first of eight children of Daniel Chidley , tailor of Shrewsbury , and his wife Katherine [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | A KITCHEN porter was yesterday jailed at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for two years after he was convicted of sex offences with young children . |
| 6 | He did not think that he judged wisely to accept , because he accepted another job only two years after he was appointed and then had to withdraw because he was found not old enough to be legal . |
| 7 | But Alexander McLaren , 37 , of Forgandenny Road , Bridge of Earn , was jailed for two years after he was found guilty of a reduced charge . |
| 8 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |
| 9 | It 's nearly two years since he was kidnapped . ’ |
| 10 | Can it really be only two years since he was taking 4 for 36 for England against the Windward Islands ? |
| 11 | Mr Timms resigned but Mr Cooke denied he had been dishonest and stayed for two years until he was fired in August last year . |
| 12 | After the administration of Edward Heath ( 1970–4 ) , Labour replaced the Conservatives again , winning two elections in 1974 , and Wilson returned to power for two years until he was succeeded on his retirement by James Callaghan . |
| 13 | Navid Sadiq , 15 , died two days after he was shot in the head during the hold-up at his uncle Nasser Ali 's shop , the Old Bailey heard . |
| 14 | Clare Evans , 18 , of Barry , South Wales , told the jury that Mr Browning took a splinter out of her hand with a butterfly knife on 16 June last year , two days before he is alleged to have killed Mrs Wilks . |
| 15 | It was actually two days before he was allowed to bring Jean home . |
| 16 | But he was not discontented now : we had been in Fe– two days and he was airing his local knowledge to impress Flora , who had just arrived . |
| 17 | It was these two terms that he was to use in BT to symbolize his alternative to the single Winckelmann-Lessing principal of " beauty " . |
| 18 | Bodie received the message about the sneaky departure of Chrissie and the two children as he was jogging round the block , just after six in the morning . |
| 19 | If the defendant has made an interim payment before he pays in , his notice must specifically refer to the interim payment and aggregate the two amounts if he is to put the plaintiff at risk for the total . |
| 20 | Paisley was the evangelical preacher , embracing the religious and the political in his two careers and he was backed by the Protestant farmers . |