Example sentences of "two [noun] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm when you put two H two O what did you mean ? two H two O wherever it was there it is . |
| 2 | What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving . |
| 3 | Edgar and two brothers who succeeded him , Alexander and David , achieved something quite unusual : all three died peacefully . |
| 4 | He took two steps which brought him into contact with me : he joined the ATC Squadron , and he saw to it that he did Fire-Watch duty on my nights . |
| 5 | We are to drink beer , eat cheese , get herded around in coaches , grab every photo-opportunity with ‘ the two lads who made it all possible ’ and officially launch the new Carter long-player ( EC-standard length ) ‘ 1992 — The Love Album ’ . |
| 6 | With two forefingers she tucked them behind her ears . |
| 7 | His gloom was reinforced because the Lebanese embassy had just refused him a visa and the only two countries he thought he could get into were Jordan and Romania , neither of which were likely to offer him employment . |
| 8 | Larry Parks is remembered for being one of the first to inform on his Communist friends before the committee , better remembered perhaps than he is for impersonating Al Jolson in two films which made him , at that time , a star . |
| 9 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 10 | And she would provide a substitute for the two weeks she reckoned it would take her , an English maid called Phoebe Crabbe with whom she had become friendly . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 12 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 13 | Although the conclusions of such studies are in principle limited to the memories of the two individuals who conducted them ( Linton 1975 , 1978 , 1982 , 1986 , and Wagenaar , 1986 ) , both researchers were potentially interested in emotion as a factor in memory and the studies provide an enormous database of everyday events for which memory has been systematically tested . |
| 14 | After two days they found him , an exhausted scarecrow of a figure hardly able to stand . |
| 15 | For two days he helped her and took stance at night near by , pleased to hear her breathing gradually ease and improve , and watching as she began to sleep in a less troubled way . |
| 16 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
| 17 | The two storm-troopers who pinned him down now rubbed the salt all over his body , massaging it into his skin , tearing the cuts wider as they did so . |
| 18 | Then he said to me in English , ‘ I have written answers to the two questions you sent me , ’ and opened the file . |
| 19 | ‘ Not in so many words , but until a month or two back he took it for granted that the business would come to him . |
| 20 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 21 | We need to have some idea what the cells are picking up from , and where they are sending information to , in order to apply those two principles I gave you earlier , the selective trigger feature , and the selective projective zone . |
| 22 | ‘ That reminds me , I must give you back the two pounds you sent me . |
| 23 | Alan gave it back to him , but when he had had two mouthfuls he let it drop . |
| 24 | Steve McQueen was a typical Jekyll and Hyde , according to the two wives who survived him . |
| 25 | Those two batteries I told you put in your pocket in case the batteries went flat this morning . |
| 26 | Now I know one or two people who said they 've had such terrible headaches |
| 27 | But I know that er the one or two people who told me that they 're going , er we were just going to the service in the church and then |
| 28 | The two people who found it are expected to receive the value of the brooch but it 's a very well preserved skull , I suppose it was all in mud an |
| 29 | Nothing is known of his early life except that his background was in the building trades — in 1724 he was described as a bricklayer , and later as a carpenter — but by the mid-1720s he had established two connections which brought him a place amongst the innermost circles of English Palladianism . |
| 30 | Looking back over the two games we made it extremely difficult for ourselves in Moscow . |