Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , no all I do is two insurances in the Midland now , I had so much hassle |
| 2 | In fact all I do is two lines like that . |
| 3 | They may be matched but then all you got is two turds instead of one ! |
| 4 | They may be matched but then all you got is two turds instead of one ! |
| 5 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 6 | Mr Bergg said : ‘ When you approach Darlington the first thing you see are two posters from Conservative and Labour criticising each other that sums up their campaigns . ’ |
| 7 | That is true , so in a sense what you have is two aspects . |
| 8 | To receive satellite TV all you need are two pieces of equipment . |
| 9 | If you want to discover them , all you need is two wires at the end of a pole leading to an amplifier , powered by a small battery and attached to a little loudspeaker . |
| 10 | We 'd been two West Country boys sharing a desert tent in Fayid . |
| 11 | Cos other years we 've been two days behind with orders you know and |
| 12 | We have been two months in producing this very complicated set of regulations . |
| 13 | Jesus , it was one island , that was true , but the terrain made the halves more remote from each other than if they had been two islands separated by a sea channel : you could n't skip across our jungles and mountains in an outrigger . |
| 14 | ‘ All it needs is two seats and we could go for a jaunt in it . |
| 15 | IT HAS been two years since sultry singer Sade was last in the spotlight . |
| 16 | The distance he walked was two miles . |
| 17 | Truly ungrammatical sentences are regarded as not resulting from any regular grammatical process ( e.g. ‘ I 've seen it happen is two girls fight . ’ ) . |
| 18 | ‘ He says all he saw was two men in the front when it arrived . |
| 19 | All it contained were two envelopes . |
| 20 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 21 | It 's been two months since Jim was seen here at his home alive on Boxing Day . |
| 22 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 23 | He said : ‘ For a lot of this season , it 's been two steps forward and one step back . |