Example sentences of "two [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Where 's your other one you had two ducks when you , ah , there 's one down there look near Hazel 's feet . |
2 | Someone else likes playing lead and bass guitars , so you build a guitar with two necks and they can do both . ’ |
3 | Others have been less cautious , the League Against Cruel Sports stating openly that they will progress to these other two activities when they have stopped hunting and the Hunt Saboteurs ' Association having also already shown an interest . |
4 | A gem from Kydonia shows the Master of Animals grasping two lions as they apparently sit upright , just as if he was holding a pair of pups by the scruff of the neck ; the image speaks clearly of the god 's dominion over wild beasts . |
5 | We took samples from two birds and we prepared DNA fingerprinting which are represented on this piece of film as a series of bands . |
6 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
7 | she can only go round with two sticks and she gets er while Beryl 's here in house but erm the brave little kid she er did a degree in erm art and costume design , you know , dress design with a erm and she 's set up a good business at home . |
8 | The waiters do n't have menus , they come and shout at you and if you 're sitting ‘ upstairs ’ on the ground floor , as opposed to the much more plebby basement , then they turn the lights off every twenty minutes or so and all the diners have to dance by candlelight for two minutes whether they want to or not . |
9 | Although Thompson , the hooker , was sin-binned for 10 minutes for a foul in a tackle on Platt , Wakefield were never troubled and two minutes after he departed Wilson dribbled past a swarm of defenders to score by the posts . |
10 | One day she left it on a table in the coffee bar for two minutes while she went to get some sugar . |
11 | I am sure that the House will bear with me for one or two minutes while I explain what has happened on this occasion . |
12 | It does n't seem two minutes since I saw it last oh big fat tummy , big fat tummy or what ? |
13 | It needs to dry for a full two minutes before you get dressed because it 's quite sticky . ’ |
14 | It was a full two minutes before he pushed firmly into her and felt her envelop him , felt her bury her face in his shoulder , heard her gasp , a little pain , unused to him being there , then the gush of warmth , love and pleasure . |
15 | His first cigarette of the day he smoked while he waited , extinguishing it two minutes before she was shown in and he had to tell her that her cervical smear had shown pre-cancerous signs . |
16 | I had not been back with Bill Francis two minutes before she appeared . |
17 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
18 | I had n't been in your shop two minutes before she asked me my birth date and told me her hobby is astrology . ’ |
19 | He had asked the driver to wait two minutes whilst he saw whether or not I was through customs and in the foyer . |
20 | It can wait two minutes till you 've finished , now go and get moving |
21 | But no American politician , especially a wealthy one , is going to last two minutes if he 's caught looking down his nose at folk the way the French do . |
22 | With four minutes of the first half left , disaster struck for City within the space of two minutes as they suddenly found themselves four one down with two penalties in quick succession . |
23 | I have only two minutes and I want to make some more points . |
24 | Biasion 's puncture cost him two minutes and he ended the day two minutes and six seconds behind Fiorio . |
25 | He 's only back from the war two minutes and he 's put the Medical Officer of Health 's nose out of joint . |
26 | And in , certainly in the two cases that I 've just mentioned , those were the key worries that they had ; but I would hazard a guess and say those are the exceptions to the rule . |
27 | I found coming into Suffolk from Hertfordshire I had n't heard the , any East Anglian dialect before at all erm I did n't find it difficult , there were only two cases and I can remember thinking there were two people er , one of whom is still alive , er who I had great difficulty in understanding and I thought when I can follow both of them without any difficulty I shall know I really belong . |
28 | The method is similar to that used in chapter 6 , where we predicted the regional median unemployment rate for each local area within that region ; the difference is that the prediction from a linear equation will only be the same for two cases if they have identical mortality rates . |
29 | Remember , the one in the north is arriving in stages , beginning with a small group of horsemen from Leven who will be unsupported for at least two hours after they have arrived at the Tay . |
30 | Over two hours since I put this in your lap . ’ |