Example sentences of "two [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boss nurse gave her two minutes and told her not to talk . |
| 2 | We demand that it changes , we beg of it to alter our lives , we leave it for two hours and assume it will be different when we get back . |
| 3 | Every morning and afternoon , a patient aide — who has had some nursing training — visits for two hours and helps her bathe , carry out exercises and walk . |
| 4 | Because I was at home , we sat down for two hours and talked it through . |
| 5 | And we 'd shut them out shunt them out and then we 'd collect the two coaches and take them over to the main yard , and put them under a cleaning platform you see for the cleaners . |
| 6 | Then , the flop brought , giving Jacobs two pairs and boosting him to a heady 4.96–1 advantage . |
| 7 | Chris Renninson set Hibberd away down the right and his excellent control took him past two defenders and gave him the time and space to send over a pinpoint cross to O'Shea , who rose unchallenged to head home from close range . |
| 8 | ‘ He reckoned I had been part of a consortium which spoke to two clubs and accused me of acting secretly — but I told him . |
| 9 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
| 10 | Pausing for the effect to register , Vic took the apex of the handkerchief between two fingers and drew it upwards delicately , laying bare a fist holding a green creature with bulging eyes . |
| 11 | So we 're definitely agreed that we ask the Town Clerk to make those two contacts and to put it on the agenda for the Planning Committee ? |
| 12 | The 31-year-old from Malahide near Dublin lies 131st in this season 's money list and if he fails to move into the top 120 in the two months that remain he will have to go to the European tour qualifying school for the first time . |
| 13 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 14 | It looked like the escaping oriental had collected the two captives and taken them with him , as he led his followers to safety . |
| 15 | They gave Chesarynth two painkillers and told her she was lucky . |
| 16 | The Office of Fair Trading agreed that ‘ from a competition viewpoint there might be a great deal of benefit in combining the two funds and placing them on insurance principles , setting premiums on the basis of risk ’ . |
| 17 | Send us a cartoon or a caricature on the theme of 20th-century Oxford and we 'll publish the best two entries and display them at the Ashmolean . |
| 18 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 19 | We got a bamboo-wallah to build them two cages and hung them from hooks on the veranda . |
| 20 | I advised him in the meantime to send for the leaders of the other two parties and have them report position from their points of view . |
| 21 | Retaining only a dozen men to accompany the vehicles when they entered the grounds , he divided the remainder into two parties and dispatched them to cover the area north of the perimeter fence . |
| 22 | I advised him in the meantime to send for the leaders of the other two parties & have them report position from their points of view . |
| 23 | What two cakes and put them together , he 's ? |
| 24 | Take it from the liquid , sprinkle it with oil , press it between two plates and leave it until the next day . |
| 25 | She poured two balloons and took them across to him . |
| 26 | Maggie blew up two balloons and handed them to Colin . |
| 27 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 28 | I confined it to a hospital tank for two weeks and treated it with Aquarian Whitespot Remedy . |
| 29 | You know , my other two other branches were the same , I 'm doing a free appointment at , I 'm at at the moment , we 're supposed to get a two-weekly , when you do a free appointment , they 're supposed to sit down with every two weeks and tell you how you 're doing . |
| 30 | The assistant recorder refused to quash the two counts and left them to the jury on the basis that the services that the appellant did provide , in the ordinary meaning of the words , amounted to employment . |