Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 2 | So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’ |
| 3 | Where is your proof that I garrotted two men , not to mention an old woman , in London ? |
| 4 | The ones that I did two years ago , which are giving a return of something about er nine to nine and a half percent a year , plus the potential for return in capital , will actually be very good . |
| 5 | The only difference with you is that I used two grains of gunpowder and no oil . |
| 6 | She boasted that she had two bedrooms and a bathroom , which had been constructed from a third bedroom . |
| 7 | ‘ It was after that weekend gig in Zimbabwe — but I seem to remember that you took two weeks ’ leave immediately after that , so perhaps you never knew . |
| 8 | I know that you killed two people . |
| 9 | Erm the inter-club show erm we had to pay judges er two of them thirty pound , we would normally have got Keith for nothing , I know that we had two judges so we had to pay them er we did like so that 's two fifty pounds and we bought some we had some old trophies which we were able to buy plates for to use for that event . |
| 10 | ‘ Michael Mills insisted that we had two safety wires on Michael , whereas stuntmen would normally work with just one . |
| 11 | I notice that we had two stations in East Oxford , whereas in fact this one left West Oxford out of it altogether . |
| 12 | We liked the motor camp at Marahau so much that we stayed two nights , giving us a chance to wash and clean up after the Abel Tasman . |
| 13 | Then it was decided that we needed two terminals . |
| 14 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 15 | And Eva , the smaller one , argued with Janice that they had two cars . |
| 16 | Eventually the family decided that they needed two contracts , one between James and Avril , the other between Anne and her parents . |
| 17 | ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling . |
| 18 | The company called it the most significant announcement in its personal computer history , adding that it had two aims : firstly , to become the number one in personal systems in Europe ; second , to be the number one supplier and implementor of choice for client-server technology . |
| 19 | When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level . |
| 20 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 21 | A solitary predator it resembled the grey wolf , except that it had two horns — one long ivory one in the centre of its forehead , and the other a squat and curved tusk at the tip of its nose . |
| 22 | When the frame was unfolded and set up she saw that it contained two photographs — one of a good-looking white-haired clergyman wearing a biretta , and the other of a ‘ sweet-faced ’ woman , her slender hand fondling the large cameo brooch at the throat of her dark dress . |
| 23 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 24 | I learnt , many years later , that they paid over £30 to have a book of poems printed , and that it sold two copies . |
| 25 | The US government felt that it possessed two weapons with which it could influence the Russians . |
| 26 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
| 27 | The gathering perception that pen input has been over-hyped was reflected in the fact that it slipped two points to 8% , and speech technology does n't have many friends either , dropping one point to just 7% . |
| 28 | John Johnson said in evidence that he heard two shots and saw the defendant 's car reverse and then drive away from the scene ‘ like a jet . ’ |
| 29 | It is , however , certain that Molla Fenari was in Karaman at a date much later than Bayezid I 's reign , as will be shown ; and as there is no evidence to suggest a journey before 800/1397 or to support the possibility that he made two journeys to Karaman , it seems justifiable to treat the Taskopruzade story with some caution . |
| 30 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |