Example sentences of "they [verb] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't see them keeping two stores on . |
| 2 | And er If you get a small little chickens you can make them do two days |
| 3 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 4 | The FA have already fined Birmingham £50,000 and ordered them to play two matches behind closed doors , both sentences suspended until the end of next season . |
| 5 | The 53-year-old captain and his crew began their epic adventure to sail in the wake of Colummbus , at 8pm on Wednesday evening , but an injured crew member forced them to land two hours later 21 miles down the cost . |
| 6 | We asked them to consider two things — what would make a good general gift for any fishkeeper — and what would they actually want to find in their Christmas stocking . |
| 7 | Oh look at that one they got arrows an they got two arrows facing one another . |
| 8 | I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown . |
| 9 | Well they got two kids now but the , it was then , you know ? |
| 10 | They were beaten 2–0 at Ewood Park by play-off hopefuls Charlton on Saturday , and although they remain two points clear , the chasing pack is closing in . |
| 11 | They concerned two constituencies only miles apart , yet as sharply contrasting as any in the UK . |
| 12 | Boswell 's account says they rode two miles to the shore to find a herring-boat which would take them out to Raasay . |
| 13 | And so they made two provisions which make the situation rather different . |
| 14 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 15 | They passed two motor-cyclists who emitted no bleep , and two powerful motor-bikes overtook them , but the D/F they sought was still proceeding steadily ahead of them . |
| 16 | Er er and that they sit two hours doing e and exam you know for somebody who can watch at all . |
| 17 | During this three-year period they applied two dressings of farmyard manure and in the intervening year they applied an indigenous legume crop as green manure . |
| 18 | Well that 's right cos they were thinking of erm , mind you they 've stop , they 've already parted and they stopped two days in and then |
| 19 | Why did they wait two days before making contact ? |
| 20 | They want money , they want two pounds for the first lot which they 've had that and two pounds for that |
| 21 | erm and ask them you know and say , and if they want two years , say well you know I 'm pretty keen on this , now what , you know I necessarily expect you to have me |
| 22 | They snatched two bags containing a large amount of cash and ran off to a waiting a white Vauxhall Nova GTE , registration number F235 BKM . |
| 23 | Well after you 've rode so many winners , they knock two pound off , you carry five . |
| 24 | They found two soldiers in civilian clothes in it and a Thompson sub-machine gun . |
| 25 | ‘ They found two sleeping bags still in their stuff sacs , a pair of inner boots , an empty rucksack , some broken tent poles , and a couple of novels and a notebook . |
| 26 | They found two men lying on the floor both with severe injuries . |
| 27 | There they found two boats tied up alongside the wharf , waiting to unload their cargo of dolphin corpses . |
| 28 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 29 | They fixed two nights when they were not riding . |
| 30 | They used two methods for this . |