Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] two [noun] " 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 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 15 | The distance was eleven miles and we did it in two hours . |
| 16 | We did it in two plaits with huge white bandage bows . |
| 17 | Gloucester won it with two penalty kicks from Tim Smith … their first league win of the season … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He wrote it in two weeks , and we took it down to Richmond Palace and played it before the Queen on February the 20th . |
| 20 | He spotted it with two teenagers inside while meeting children from a school outing . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | He downed it in two throatfuls , and Theresa instantly replenished it . |
| 23 | Sir David English probably disliked it for two reasons . |