Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] [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 | First of all I had been subjected to two substantial costs consequent upon some unexplained administrative delay . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 7 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 8 | Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted . |
| 9 | I have been moved on two or three thousand times in the last few years |
| 10 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 13 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 14 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had been found at two that afternoon by a party searching the Pertsey and north-west region of Vangmoor . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You are entitled to a written statement of the reasons for your dismissal if you have been employed for two years or more . |
| 19 | • AA Hospital Plus provides full insurance cover for pre-existing medical conditions , once you have been covered for two years without a recurrence . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I think we 've been talking about two different interpretations of the word , respect . |
| 22 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The ten plough lands reduced to six and by the time of Domesday they had been reduced to two and a half and Pannage for hogs reduced to wood for five hogs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
| 27 | But Mr Krueger 's unorthodox manner ( by Texas standards ) does not bode well : he has been defeated in two previous races for the Senate , and was rumoured to have been chosen to fill the empty seat only after three previous choices had been rejected by special interests . |
| 28 | Originally presented in terms of partial equilibrium analysis , it has been extended in two principal directions . |
| 29 | And it has been followed by two other families with the synchronous/asynchronous Mach three and four families . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |