Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] two days " in BNC.

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1 All black it was , I spent two days cleaning it up .
2 I was presented with a document whose contents I discussed two days later with community leaders .
3 Erm the training course er as I said two days er I 'll count it as a full training course .
4 I had two days of that with this lad and then off he went .
5 In the end I could n't get rid of them , I had two days off when I was ill and I had as holidays to ge to get them sort of settled up you know .
6 I waited two days and then I left .
7 Your welcome letter found me at Launceston at which place I remained two days with Mr. Kerr , Captn Friend etc .
8 The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries .
9 The event , which spanned two days at the Gilbertson Park ground in Lerwick , received financial support from Sullom Voe .
10 She spent two days recovering .
11 At Chester in England in October 1807 she spent two days editing a slim volume of letters addressed to her by ‘ Several Africans and Indians ’ , including a black bishop , proto-feminist Indian women , and a convicted felon .
12 She spent two days recovering , expressed shock and horror at what had happened to me , then got on her bike and roared off .
13 Before the 1991 visit she had not been in Northern Ireland since she spent two days in the province in August 1977 during her national jubilee tour .
14 The former Warrington and New Zealand Test forward succeeds Kevin Ashcroft , who resigned two days ago .
15 We had friends who waited two days in Sorata before getting transport to the Ancohuma base .
16 While the rest of the country was swept by autumn storms , we enjoyed two days of outstanding climbing on Guillemot and Cormorant ledges .
17 We spent two days travelling back to Royston with a guide who was as tired of us as we were sick of him .
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 ‘ The man they hanged two days ago ? ’ said Dawkins .
20 They spent two days on safari while they were there , ending with a camel ride in the Sahara desert where they rode off into the sunset !
21 It has sixty four pages with one hundred and ninety thousand words They spent two days working around the clock typing it into a computer , now their master disc is being used by a Sunday newspaper to publish the whole thing this weekend .
22 but they , they wo n't , they took two days off last week and they sat indoors for two days , they 've got a love , you know there fantastic couple , really fantastic , they 'll do anything for you , but it 's like Dave , Dave 's always saying take up golf , go swimming
23 I did n't get a reply before election day , so I voted Green ; it arrived two days after the election , reassuring me that the Labour Party was committed to improving gay rights .
24 He spent two days drooling over her .
25 In 1799 he spent two days in what he called ‘ proud Gallio-like Portadown ’ .
26 He spent two days in the top security Westville prison on trespassing charges .
27 There he spent two days alone before coming back to Normandy , arriving an hour before the Stevensons and Sarah .
28 And he spent two days trying to impress this upon Forbus and Forbus went back to Arkansas and did exactly what he said he was going to do .
29 It followed two days of intensive talks at the fifth round of inter-Korean Premiers ' talks which had opened in Seoul on Dec. 10 [ for fourth round see pp. 38529-30 ] .
30 He died two days later in hospital .
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