Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [verb] for two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 2 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 3 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 5 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 6 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 7 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 8 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 9 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 10 | You are entitled to a written statement of the reasons for your dismissal if you have been employed for two years or more . |
| 11 | • AA Hospital Plus provides full insurance cover for pre-existing medical conditions , once you have been covered for two years without a recurrence . |
| 12 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 13 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 14 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 15 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 16 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 17 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 18 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 19 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |