Example sentences of "[prep] two years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two years I won an Intermediate County Scholarship which brought fifteen pounds a year in addition to free education . |
| 2 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 3 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It paid off — ‘ I actually got a job , then another , and within two years I was working every day . ’ |
| 6 | But er within two years I 'd doubled me book and I was averaging over five pound a week , then . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | ‘ For two years I was crippled by repeated foot injuries , caused simply by the shoes I was wearing . |
| 11 | For two years I worked as a residential officer in old people 's homes in addition to my academic work . |
| 12 | ‘ For two years I lived with a girl named Susan , who I wrote ‘ Medicine Bottle ’ ( 'Down Colorful Hill ’ 's harrowing stand-out ) about , ’ he says , circuitously explaining the next album . |
| 13 | ‘ You see , ’ I explained , ‘ for two years I 've had to shout to make myself understood by the giants . |
| 14 | But for two years I was afraid . |
| 15 | For two years I never went anywhere without my gun . |
| 16 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 17 | Yes dear I went to erm , er the er holiday camp in October to erm , er with the Red Cross and I went with the , Charlie took me and I went in a car with a friend of mine we went to the Red Cross holiday in Patefield , but it poured of rain every day every day it poured of rain did n't October it was terrible , ever so cold , but we were well looked after you know and I enjoyed it and we had the wheelchairs to go around in on for the dancing , it was really great I thoroughly enjoyed it , I have n't been for two years I had n't , but I went like in October , cos you 're only allowed really every two years to go , that 's all you 're allowed really , but I thoroughly enjoyed it you know , it was nice |
| 18 | did n't understand for two years I mean told the regulator |