Example sentences of "two [noun] [adv] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 cos about two minutes later she come back with it
2 Basically you will listen for maybe seven minutes then you switch off for two minutes then you switch on again and then you try and think well what was I listening to seven minu well you know , three minutes ago what was probably said in the last two minutes .
3 Now here are two cases where we think " the " should have been used ( __ indicates where we would put " the " ) :
4 Two hours later we clatter down the stairs of a West End restaurant feeling like two plum puddings on legs .
5 Two hours later she come back with a ham sandwich .
6 Two hours later I wonder if I 'm 38 or 68-years-old ! , who had lost 3–2 at squash lunchtime to , wishes he had n't come back , and can hardly crawl upstairs to his office !
7 The rebellion of the American colonies in the eighteenth century confronted the British with an axiom which , for reasons which are capable of being understood , they found so unpleasant that more than two centuries later they have still not ceased attempting to wish it out of existence .
8 So we looked at two areas where we 've erm we were both very weak , erm , and I do n't we could even , we could n't even see it with regards this .
9 And that 's the only time you 're going to find it when you 're linking the heart and the lungs , now look at those two areas where you 've got blood coming back down into the heart , can you see those two wishbones there coming back down into the heart , do you see where I mean , yes ?
10 We 've got two tuples so I 've given the example again we 've got two tuples of two two one here and one here .
11 minus X squared minus two X. Then we do this way , three X squared
12 Zambian er , call it Zambian newspa , newspapers so it 's very liable as to what , you know it 's no comm , it 's not comment at all , it 's just , and erm the last one two weeks ago I think it was , indicated that erm South Africa 's production of maize would be , oh I ca n't remember , but a lot short of what they require themselves
13 At the Conservative Party Conference two weeks later I set out both the Government 's position and my own feelings .
14 Louise erm , two years ago we meet at the seven four seven for Bangkok air New York , we were in .
15 Two years ago they play it , everybody stands up .
16 No , I mean two years ago I think we would have made wrong predictions about what 's happening now .
17 Of the Irish contingent , The Committee on recent form stands out but if Cahervillahow were to recapture if only fleetingly the form of two years ago you need look no further for the winner .
18 Yes it 's now going to take two years longer I think than was originally er contended , to what extent is this due to technical difficulties and to what extent is it due to one of our partners and Germany one 's thinking of in particular , wishing to slow the programme down for fiscal reasons ?
19 Two years later we find Datini himself writing in the same vein to one of his partners in Spain , Cristofano di Bartolo , whom he wished to persuade to come home .
20 Although it 's two years later they 've got to resell at the price that er it 's been discounted more or less .
21 Two years later you 've lost it .
22 eventually , after about two years when you get this sort of armless , legless cor
23 If we 've got two roundabouts there 's only gon na be two days when we need that thirteen people .
24 And then you 've consulted somebody else and if the say no go ahead and sell the shares and if two days later they 've gone through the roof it 's unfortunate .
25 There are two things here which need to be distinguished : one is the structural , intensional , association between the adjective and the noun ( or , strictly speaking , between the property and the entity that they instantiate ) that form a phrase together and are jointly engaged in the business of identifying some entity ; the other is the referential link between the adjective and that to which it properly applies .
26 That may be it , and perhaps one or two topics only we go into some depth on .
27 Mulloney ( 1969 ) has shown that these muscles are activated by a motor neuron in the thorax which in turn is driven by two interneurons in they brain , from which descending paths synapse with the motor neurons in the thorax .
28 Two scenes later we see Goneril instructing her servant Oswald to be rude to Lear , put on ‘ weary negligence ’ , and bring the issue to a violent state : ‘ What grows of it , no matter …
29 Obviously with the coming of two elections shortly we have the opportunity to do a lot more canvassing and contact more members of the public and to draw in new members from there .
30 No king , ten I 've got two queens on I 've got to get king jack
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