Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunt goes on for two climbers after body is found |
| 2 | It was really a good play , ha , and it was done so well , and you were so close to it as well , you got in for two pounds , best thing I 've ever seen . |
| 3 | Hunt on for two raiders who escaped with £1,000 from Yorkshire Building Society on Allerton Road , Allerton . |
| 4 | Not that she intended accepting any favours from him , but she knew he was booked in for two nights , which gave her time to return his hospitality if she could not manipulate tonight into a Dutch treat . |
| 5 | Andrew Thomas , who has now replaced Phllips as Neath 's first-choice hooker , supplemented his work in the tight by galloping over for two tries . |
| 6 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 7 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 8 | He went there and back and do nothing to the people bol er er involved , being consulted and we 've had that going on for two years no consultation here has taken place with the people who it affects and there 's nothing in your motion to say it will . |
| 9 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 10 | Trailing 19–2 at half-time , woeful Saints hit further setbacks when Fox raced in for two tries in three minutes early in the second half . |
| 11 | Smith 's mini gamble paid off for two ends later he stole a single to tie the score at 1-1 . |
| 12 | Film-making involves acting for 10 minutes and then waiting around for two hours . |
| 13 | I was unsure whether to make her Northern , like my own mother , which works wonderfully well with Zelma-like lines , eg. ‘ If you were me , would you wear the blue dress with the beading that everyone 's seen me in , or the new one I 've kept hanging up for two years ? ’ or ‘ Sha n't I buy the beef , then ? |
| 14 | She hung on for two years , existing on fees for supervising undergraduates and an allowance from her father . |
| 15 | ‘ The whole business has dragged on for two weeks already and it looks like going on even longer . |
| 16 | All the defendants were bound over for two years on a personal bail of £350 and some were also fined . |
| 17 | O'Doherty , who had not taken part in the obstruction , was fined £5 for allegedly leading the singing of ‘ We shall overcome ’ ( a charge he denied ) , and the others were bound over for two years on £50 personal bail . |
| 18 | Kenneth Shoane , 66 , was bound over for two years by Maidstone Crown Court in Kent yesterday for making threats to kill Kate Kray , 35 . |
| 19 | " He was bound over for two years in Leeds , but that ended last month . " |
| 20 | But the men stayed locked up for two hours until their boss agreed they would repair the faulty central heating immediately — on overtime . |
| 21 | She signed up for two employment agencies : Solve Your Problems and Knightsbridge Nannies , and worked as a waitress at private parties and as a charlady . |
| 22 | I mean if Glasgow breaks down for I mean if the pros get called out for two weeks it 's not gon na make a big deal of difference at Norwich . |
| 23 | However , Queen 's will be struggling for a scrum-half with former Irish Schools ' skipper Kenton Hillman ruled out for two months because of a shoulder injury , while centre Gerry Ross is heading for Trinity . |
| 24 | The wife of a Sussex shopkeeper paid a woman 18d ( 7.5p ) in 1760 for coming in for two days , while Eden in 1794 reported that Lincolnshire women who went out to wash earned 6d to 8d ( 2.5 to 3p ) a day . |
| 25 | It was easier to mine in for two reasons : firstly , if you mined the stone , massive amounts of earth did not have to be shifted before the stone could be got at , and secondly , the men of Swaledale and Wensleydale , many of them experienced lead-miners , had all the knowledge and expertise necessary to dig stone from the mine , and furthermore labour was plentiful because of the decline of the lead industry . |
| 26 | The company has an agreement with its work force that when work is short employees will be laid off for two weeks on full pay [ and ] after that they will have to apply for unemployment benefit … . |
| 27 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 28 | This can go on for two hours or more , until all the eggs have been laid . |
| 29 | The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years . |
| 30 | So popular was this concert that there was no admission charge , only a collection , as it went on for two evenings , but strangely enough , David did n't offer to take part , although George Underwood did and he had a very popular group called George and the Dragons at the time . |