Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it [prep] two [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
2 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
3 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
4 | It explained mathematically why the electron had spin 1/2 , that is , why it did n't look the same if you turned it through only one complete revolution , but did if you turned it through two revolutions . |
5 | The distance was eleven miles and we did it in two hours . |
6 | We did it in two plaits with huge white bandage bows . |
7 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |
8 | He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit . |
9 | It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington . |
10 | He clutched it by two handfuls of thick fleece , bracing himself as it tried to lunge forwards . |
11 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
12 | He wrote it in two weeks , and we took it down to Richmond Palace and played it before the Queen on February the 20th . |
13 | He spotted it with two teenagers inside while meeting children from a school outing . |
14 | He downed it in two throatfuls , and Theresa instantly replenished it . |