Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 6 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 7 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 8 | Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) . |
| 9 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 13 | I think we 've been talking about two different interpretations of the word , respect . |
| 14 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |