Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] two days " in BNC.
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| 1 | They produced fry two days later which were born during the afternoon . |
| 2 | A few readers may remember that I had long ago arranged to spend two days drawing cartoons for children in the Navan shopping centre . |
| 3 | A replacement was found for her and she arranged to travel two days before Christmas . |
| 4 | What really disturbed the Under-Secretary was the report he had received two days ago about the smuggling in of arms for this new Volunteer army . |
| 5 | On Jan. 31 the federal Collective State Presidency announced that it had ordered ( unspecified ) " special measures " to try to end the violence ; according to unofficial reports a majority of the Presidency members had voted two days earlier against sending federal troops to Kosovo to put down the unrest . |
| 6 | The chairman 's homily called to mind the short — but too long — talk he and Marilyn had suffered two days before in the vicar 's study . |
| 7 | The two Nordic girls he had seen two days before were now basking like seals outside another cafe . |
| 8 | I had boils and chilblains all over my hands , had had two days food poisoning ( when I had vomited over the Sergeant-Major 's jeep ) , and was tired all the time . |
| 9 | She had volunteered two days ‘ school run ’ , but she was forever on the phone , and Louis was well used to the delays and lateness in the family caused by his mother 's interminable phone conversations . |
| 10 | I had arrived two days too late . |
| 11 | They had arrived two days ago , courtesy of Interflora and Carlo San Lorenzo . |
| 12 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 13 | Adam had disappeared two days ago . |
| 14 | The youngster had been taken to hospital , where he had spent two days after an operation . |
| 15 | Immediately before the summer recess , and as one of his last acts before his two and a half months of asylum , Baldwin had devoted two days to receiving an almost unprecedented deputation on the subject . |
| 16 | Ridley had stated in an interview with the right-wing Spectator magazine which had appeared two days previously that European economic and monetary union was " a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe " and must be " thwarted " . |
| 17 | The significance of this to our enquiry is that , when Robertson 's order was passed on by Eighth Army to 5 Corps , it was to be taken by 5 Corps — as we shall see later — to authorise the handing over of various groups of Yugoslav surrendered personnel , including the 15,000-odd Slovene , Serb and Montenegrin troops who had surrendered two days earlier and been placed in Viktring camp . |
| 18 | However , the Turkish office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) had estimated two days earlier that 200,000 Kurdish refugees were " approaching or close to " the Turkish border alone . |
| 19 | She asked for news of Robin and Jenny , and Aunt Sarah launched into an ironic description of how a Japanese tourist half Jenny 's size and four times her age had proposed marriage to her ( ’ At least I hope it was marriage ’ ) , and how Robin had got locked overnight in the bar of the hotel where he was working and had taken two days to sleep it off ; and gradually Ruth fought down her feelings . |