Example sentences of "[pers pn] for two " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd just hit me for two huge sixes , then slapped me savagely through the covers . |
| 2 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 3 | ‘ Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five . |
| 4 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 5 | The family could quite well manage without me for two days . |
| 6 | The swine owes me for two weeks . |
| 7 | The Italian , who was with me for two months , became really rather tiresome and disruptive , especially to the charming young German working hard for her exams . |
| 8 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 9 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 10 | Pearse coached me for two years . |
| 11 | Avoid them for two weeks , but substitute other foods that will fulfil your nutritional needs . |
| 12 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 13 | I have kept them for two years and found them naturally inquisitive and great characters . |
| 14 | If you sent your work to a publisher and have not heard from them for two months , you should write to ask them whether or not they intend to publish it . |
| 15 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 16 | He may shadow them for two weeks , gradually getting closer and closer . |
| 17 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 18 | I gather you have been chasing them for two weeks for their time . |
| 19 | He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move . |
| 20 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 21 | And one was going to but it off them for two hundred and fifty thousand so my mate said , You make the offer at two hundred and fifty and you 'll help me , so I says , I 'm getting it for two hundred if I say , an eighteen hole golf course , and I 'll sell it back to them when they can afford to buy it back off me , right ? |
| 22 | Jon stayed with them for two years until he had enough money to own a bus of his own . |
| 23 | Town have n't beaten them for two years … |
| 24 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 25 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 26 | And I did return to nurse them for two years |
| 27 | But , I mean , they sell them round at Dash Hill for erm , they sell them for two hundred and fifty do n't , the shops |
| 28 | Well they 're three weeks old and she 's selling them for two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 29 | You get them for two pounds fifty . |
| 30 | They had a large box of miscellaneous bit and pieces of sticky tape and straws and wood and drawing pins and all sorts of things , and we essentially just left them for two weeks to do this — and they came up with some superb ideas . |