Example sentences of "[adv prt] for two " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's on for two hours . |
| 32 | the project will go on for two or three weeks . |
| 33 | It 's actually on for two hours in the evening . |
| 34 | Then slow the pace down for two minutes before hiking it up again . |
| 35 | Tram Pinch , Running Over Frogs , Flashing a Breaker , Crippled Joints , Demic , Jim Crow , Going down for Two , 3-bell load ? |
| 36 | Because I was at home , we sat down for two hours and talked it through . |
| 37 | will you sit down for two more minutes . |
| 38 | I walked up and down for two or three minutes , then I said : ‘ Henry , go back to these men . |
| 39 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 40 | Michael Winner , on whose original story Likely Lads TV writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais based their script , had discovered , while studying at Cambridge University , a legal loophole that meant that ‘ borrowing ’ bicycles from his college to get to the office of the student newspaper Varsity , which he edited , did not constitute theft , although he was gated and sent down for two weeks . |
| 41 | And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ? |
| 42 | I must sit down for two minutes , Jim . |
| 43 | He 'll not come down for two week ! |
| 44 | No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range . |
| 45 | We plod along for two or three decades with the occasional recording of individual sonatas and then along comes a centenary year and all and sundry are in on the act at the same time . |
| 46 | Maybe if I was on Sandøya when winter came , when the sun went in for two or three months , when all the water froze , when ice covered the ground and fishing was a risky business of frozen fingers and ears , on water in which survival was measured in seconds , I would be less romantic about it . |
| 47 | The traumatic experiences the men had already been through — the drama of the inrush of slurry , the knowledge that they were entombed , the foul air they had lived in for two days , and the threat of the gathering gas — meant that the half-mile walk wearing apparatus , and a further one and a half miles to the surface , would be a severe test of their remaining stamina and resolve . |
| 48 | But John Devereux raced in for two tries to keep Widnes in the game before O'Neill scampered through score the winner . |
| 49 | Trailing 19–2 at half-time , woeful Saints hit further setbacks when Fox raced in for two tries in three minutes early in the second half . |
| 50 | I have a person who comes in for two hours every morning , but … but she does just the very rough work . |
| 51 | It was easier to mine in for two reasons : firstly , if you mined the stone , massive amounts of earth did not have to be shifted before the stone could be got at , and secondly , the men of Swaledale and Wensleydale , many of them experienced lead-miners , had all the knowledge and expertise necessary to dig stone from the mine , and furthermore labour was plentiful because of the decline of the lead industry . |
| 52 | I see arts students ' timetables , an English student comes in for two hours a week , and he 's home for the rest of the time . |
| 53 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 54 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 55 | I was in for two weeks , during which I had a wide variety of tests . |
| 56 | Not that she intended accepting any favours from him , but she knew he was booked in for two nights , which gave her time to return his hospitality if she could not manipulate tonight into a Dutch treat . |
| 57 | Methody winger Richard McCluskey showed great pace and balance running in for two late tries as the youth team tired . |
| 58 | You either let them in for two reasons . |
| 59 | The wife of a Sussex shopkeeper paid a woman 18d ( 7.5p ) in 1760 for coming in for two days , while Eden in 1794 reported that Lincolnshire women who went out to wash earned 6d to 8d ( 2.5 to 3p ) a day . |
| 60 | However , the damage was done at the discontinued line which simply reflects the fact that we had er , Elserver in for two and a half months in nineteen ninety one , as opposed to twelve months the year before . |