Example sentences of "[prep] two year [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two years they gave up prospecting and pulled out . |
| 2 | ‘ After two years she left the course . |
| 3 | After two years he had half-a-dozen going concerns all around the city . |
| 4 | After two years he received the certificate of the college for proficiency in chemistry . |
| 5 | After two years he moved to Border Television in Carlisle where being part of a small team allowed him to dabble in all areas of production . |
| 6 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 7 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 8 | After two years I won an Intermediate County Scholarship which brought fifteen pounds a year in addition to free education . |
| 9 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 10 | Within two years she had been transferred from teaching to teacher training . |
| 11 | Within two years he had so firmly established himself that he was able to bring to Canada his wife and young son , Lyon , where they settled happily , first at Maberly , Ontario , then in Montreal , a home with more than a touch of aristocratic manners and style . |
| 12 | Within two years he had designed and installed electrical repeater devices , indicating to signalmen the position of semaphore signal arms which were outside their range of vision ; an automatic device recording on tape the bell-code communications between signal-boxes ; and the first track circuiting in which the presence of a train on a section of track was indicated electrically in the signal cabin . |
| 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 | But er within two years I 'd doubled me book and I was averaging over five pound a week , then . |
| 15 | In two years we went from a £32m profit , which I suppose in current rates would be in the region of £150m , to a £14m loss . |
| 16 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |
| 17 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 18 | For two years they toured the Far and Near East , giving exhibitions in an old Bleriot and narrowly escaping with their lives from superstitious Chinese villagers . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | For two years I worked as a residential officer in old people 's homes in addition to my academic work . |
| 22 | For two years he taught at the University of Texas at Austin , and directed the Michener Collection there , before enlisting in the U.S. Naval Reserve for a four year stint . |
| 23 | For two years he taught at a preparatory school in Reigate , before being appointed head of the English department at Stowe by the school 's headmaster , J. F. Roxburgh [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | For two years he fed the poor woman poison . ’ |
| 25 | For two years he went out to nightclubs in Paris every night until six in the morning . |
| 26 | For two years he travelled through Britain convalescing . |
| 27 | For two years he needed massage several times a day and still goes for regular check-ups at hospital . |
| 28 | For two years she applied herself to her studies with an energy no one had suspected she possessed . |
| 29 | For two years she had hardly been sane . |
| 30 | For two years she had awaited the turn of events before deciding which side to join , while maintaining a mobilized army . |