Example sentences of "two [noun] [coord] [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 | It looked like the escaping oriental had collected the two captives and taken them with him , as he led his followers to safety . |
| 13 | They gave Chesarynth two painkillers and told her she was lucky . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We got a bamboo-wallah to build them two cages and hung them from hooks on the veranda . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | What two cakes and put them together , he 's ? |
| 22 | Take it from the liquid , sprinkle it with oil , press it between two plates and leave it until the next day . |
| 23 | She poured two balloons and took them across to him . |
| 24 | Maggie blew up two balloons and handed them to Colin . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I confined it to a hospital tank for two weeks and treated it with Aquarian Whitespot Remedy . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was a taxi driver in Newton Aycliffe for two years but gave it up as it was ‘ soul-destroying ’ . |
| 30 | Or wait two years and break it then ? ’ |