Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] for two " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked us to call a group together , black and white , to meet with him for two days to seek God 's guidance together . |
| 2 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 3 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 4 | I 've done without her for two months now . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five . |
| 6 | So there we are we 've got one lot of twelve or we might be able to have two lots of what see what you can make with it for two lots . |
| 7 | Big Percy Cherrett fed off him for two seasons but it was Peter Simpson who benefited most from the work of the talented left-winger and it is no coincidence that Peter scored more goals in each of the three seasons in which Clarke was his team-mate than in any of the succeeding campaigns . |
| 8 | If you sent your work to a publisher and have not heard from them for two months , you should write to ask them whether or not they intend to publish it . |
| 9 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |
| 10 | I said that I think you 'll find , Ron that Trudy if she married would have to give up her late husband 's occupational widow 's pension so that the way you 're going on now , where you go and stay with her for two or three days at a time is far better oh no , no , no , she 'll be able to keep her pension I said I very much doubt it then I said people are so jealous that if she does marry you and he does n't tell the firm I bet that one of her dear neighbours will oh no they 're all very nice people round where she lives , I thought there 's no good arguing with Ron ! |
| 11 | The family could quite well manage without me for two days . |
| 12 | She was able to care for him for two months in the small cottage which had been her parent 's retirement home . |
| 13 | with the formula , so think about it for two . |
| 14 | Mr Giles of Grimethorpe Motors has been advertising with us for two years and he is delighted with the results . |
| 15 | They 'll play with it for two or three years yet , and in the end very probably nothing will come of it . |
| 16 | A young Roman Catholic soldier from the Lancashire Fusiliers was billeted on him for two summer months of 1941 and never forgot the joyful singing which used to accompany Ramsey 's washing and shaving before he went off to the cathedral each morning . |
| 17 | Jon stayed with them for two years until he had enough money to own a bus of his own . |
| 18 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've bowled to him for two days and I ca n't get him , ’ he explained , ‘ so I just want to loosen up . ’ |