Example sentences of "two [noun pl] she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two hours she had lain there — two whole hours of torment . |
| 2 | She was able to keep Steve because where she lived within the er there was a little coronet of little tatty houses that have since been pulled down and she was related to fifteen in fifteen out of the twenty two houses she had a relative . |
| 3 | Beador 's own response was reassuring — he thought it a ‘ ripping good idea ’ and gladly added Fontana to the travelling stable of two hunters she had brought down from Yorkshire . |
| 4 | In two steps she had reached the slop bucket , dropped the packet in , watched it splash on the cobbles and turned round as a voice rang out in the yard . |
| 5 | For two years she had hardly been sane . |
| 6 | For two years she had awaited the turn of events before deciding which side to join , while maintaining a mobilized army . |
| 7 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 8 | Within two years she had been transferred from teaching to teacher training . |
| 9 | For the second time in two days she had been bought and sold . |
| 10 | Over the past two days she had managed to convince herself that her mother was a different person from the one she knew . |
| 11 | Within two days she had found some information on the Prince 's Trust , which is a scheme set up by the Duke of Cornwall , HRH Prince Charles himself . |
| 12 | For two days she had surreptitiously watched the gateway of the magnificent house from the cover of a plane tree on the other side of the road . |
| 13 | In fact I happened just to have spent the weekend with a dear friend and was well aware that at some point over the two days she had entertained everyone suspected of being concerned , and not a word of politics was discussed , nor a syllable about supplanting anybody . |
| 14 | For the past two days she had been dreading the proximity this trip would involve , but gradually , as the car wound its way along the narrow mountain roads , she could feel herself beginning to relax . |
| 15 | The two names she had mentioned are of course rhyming slang for ‘ pissed ’ , but nothing in Rebecca Kraemer 's innocent little face betrayed whether or not she was aware of this . |
| 16 | She would be able to give up her job as secretary in the medical physics department at Larksoken Power Station and start the first of the two children she had planned . |
| 17 | But as they seized her by the mantle , she shook it from her shoulders , folded two of her children in her arms and floated away through a window , never more to be seen by her husband and the two children she had left behind . |
| 18 | Shrugging , she gazed pointedly at two Wrens she had not met before . |
| 19 | She had lost her cap , and so could not again conceal the glory of her hidden beauty , but she twisted the plait in a knot behind her head and clipped it there as best she could with the two pins she had found , so that it resembled the thick queue of a man 's old-fashioned wig . |
| 20 | On two occasions she had to cancel engagements , on others she looked pale and sickly , acutely aware that she was not helping her husband . |
| 21 | He looked as icily cold as he had done on the other two occasions she had met him . |