Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] two [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone .
2 I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years .
3 It explained mathematically why the electron had spin 1/2 , that is , why it did n't look the same if you turned it through only one complete revolution , but did if you turned it through two revolutions .
4 Christina sweetened it with two spoonfuls of golden local cane sugar .
5 After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material .
6 He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit .
7 Well , I stuck it for two years .
8 It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington .
9 He clutched it by two handfuls of thick fleece , bracing himself as it tried to lunge forwards .
10 He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it .
11 Dennis shook his head , then tapped it with two fingers .
12 She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf .
13 Sir Thomas More owned it for two years , although he probably never lived there .
14 The distance was eleven miles and we did it in two hours .
15 We did it in two plaits with huge white bandage bows .
16 Corman admitted , ‘ I did one film really more as a joke to see if I could do it ; filmed it in two days and a night .
17 He wrote it in two weeks , and we took it down to Richmond Palace and played it before the Queen on February the 20th .
18 He spotted it with two teenagers inside while meeting children from a school outing .
19 Sister Eillen Regan , from the board of education of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco , says the board shunned it for two reasons : ‘ It treats nuclear war as survivable and implies nuclear war is a political option ’ .
20 He downed it in two throatfuls , and Theresa instantly replenished it .
21 Sir David English probably disliked it for two reasons .
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