Example sentences of "[prep] two [noun] i " in BNC.
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1 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
2 | After two minutes I was showered with hot tea and a selection of cakes from the next door cubicle . |
3 | After two minutes I believe the butcher would have followed her out of the shop had she beckoned him . |
4 | After two hours I began to wonder if he had stitched me up and then , worse , whether he was back at the flat with Alison . |
5 | At first I did n't mind doing it , but after two months I found out he had quite a few women . |
6 | After two weeks I felt better in myself and I had lost several pounds . |
7 | ‘ In the end , they told me to give him a bottle because he was too hungry to feed properly , but looking back I 'm sure it was because they did n't have time to help me ; and after two days I had to go home because they needed the bed . |
8 | After two years I won an Intermediate County Scholarship which brought fifteen pounds a year in addition to free education . |
9 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
10 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
11 | I visited the official information bureau in George Square armed with paper and the names of two groups I wanted to get the telephone numbers of . |
12 | Within two hours I had all the information I needed to know . |
13 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
14 | It paid off — ‘ I actually got a job , then another , and within two years I was working every day . ’ |
15 | But er within two years I 'd doubled me book and I was averaging over five pound a week , then . |
16 | I have n't seen it now , any any at all for about a month and within two episodes I 've picked up everything . |
17 | ‘ In two minutes I 'm going back to the car , ’ I keep muttering . |
18 | well you sit there then , I 'll come back in two minutes I , I ca n't hear what Richard and James are doing |
19 | ‘ In two weeks I shall be taking you and Corrie Palmer on the train to London . |
20 | In two weeks I shall be speaking to the people who worked for me and campaigned and raised money when I thought I was as good as dead and buried . |
21 | Do that in two weeks I think we will be happy . |
22 | But this would now seem directed against the invalid so I hold back , thinking , in two years I will be at the comprehensive and only five years after that — providing I pass the scholarship exam , which I easily should — I 'll be at boarding school , and then I 'll be free , free to scratch and do whatever I like . |
23 | If however you hear anything of the matter , urge it as much as you can , and believe me I will leave no unconnected links in my track — and that in two years I will leave but little to be discovered here , if it please Providence to continue to me its wonted care . |
24 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |
25 | Does match in two colours I do n't really match but this |
26 | ‘ For the second time in two days I 'm hearing the usually benevolent lioness growl , ’ she said . |
27 | Two one and a half to two pint I would think . |
28 | ‘ And on two evenings I have tickets for La Scala , ’ he said . |
29 | We both slept badly that night : on two occasions I woke when Benjamin cried out in his sleep . |
30 | ‘ On two legs I run . |