Example sentences of "[vb past] it for two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 2 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sir Thomas More owned it for two years , although he probably never lived there . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Sir David English probably disliked it for two reasons . |