Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 2 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 3 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 4 | Well I wan I tried for two days to talk about Lady Thatcher . |
| 5 | I think I read for two hours , but it seemed like ten minutes . |
| 6 | I have now returned to live in London where I teach for two days a week at the Royal Academy Schools ’ . |
| 7 | I served for two years , 18 months of which where in Egypt , during the so called Middle East Crisis , where it was not unusual to be sniped at , almost daily , by an unseen enemy who did n't always miss . |
| 8 | He says an which he says you 've worked so hard , cos I worked for two casters which I should n't have done really , but that 's how I were used to working you see and er , he said er , I said well me dad keeps asking me to go and work for him , and he said well I 'll tell you what I 'll do with you , he says you 've worked so hard for us , this bloke came from Bloxford you know He says you 've worked so hard for us , he said we 'll agree to you going with your father , er for a month and see whether you like it , and if you do n't like it , come back and we 'll give you your job back . |
| 9 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I ask for two reasons . |
| 11 | I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again . |
| 12 | I wish I could afford to stay at home — in fact I did for two years . |
| 13 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 14 | There I stayed for two days . |
| 15 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |
| 16 | When I stayed with my husband and children at the Holcombe Hotel in Oxfordshire on the Great Escapes scheme this summer I was told I would get free accommodation as long as I stayed for two nights and paid for dinner and breakfast at a cost of £33.20 each per day . |
| 17 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
| 18 | Both countries were among the non-permanent membership of the Council , which sits for two years , the others for that particular two-year period being Canada , Colombia , the Ivory Coast , Ethiopia , Finland , Malaysia , Romania and Zaire . |
| 19 | The Russian minister sent to Constantinople in 1724 was ordered to choose four students to be attached to his staff to learn the language ; while the establishment of 1779 for the college of foreign affairs , which provided for two students to be attached to each Russian mission abroad , allowed that in the Turkish capital to have as many as eight . |
| 20 | In addition Gary Nesbitt , who was the non-executive deputy chairman , and Michael Isaacs , who was the development director , have agreed to a non-competition agreement , which last for two years in Mr Nesbitt 's case and 18 months in Mr Isaacs ' . |
| 21 | Disabled and able-bodied children can enrol on the course , which lasts for two hours each Saturday for six weeks and which offers expert tuition . |
| 22 | The turning-point in Lynn 's career came in 1922 when Leslie Henson and Tom Walls [ qq.v. ] cast him in Tons of Money , a sparkling farce which ran for two years at the Shaftesbury Theatre . |
| 23 | The seminar , which ran for two days , was attended by some 300 people . |
| 24 | Hastening north towards the Musselshell River early the next morning , the Nez Perce fought a fierce rearguard action against Sturgis ' Bannock and Crow scouts which continued for two days and resulted in the deaths of one Nez Perce warrior and two old men , and the capture of forty horses . |
| 25 | The protests , which continued for two days , were sparked mainly by price rises . |
| 26 | The idea of the bill was to keep them going for two weeks , you know , so they can change their mind and … |
| 27 | The duty officer promised to get in touch but nothing happened for two days . |
| 28 | ‘ Who asked for two eggs and a sausage ? ' |
| 29 | What do you mean you tried for two days ? |
| 30 | She studied for two years in audio-visual design . |