Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a pint of milk 's thirty eight pence I think it cost me two pound thirty eight up here . |
| 2 | Erm and it cost me two quid I think for the four . |
| 3 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
| 4 | It cost him two marriages . |
| 5 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 6 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 7 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 8 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 9 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 10 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 12 | It took her two hours to put the curlers in ! |
| 13 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 14 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 15 | It took them two days before they reached human habitation . |
| 16 | In the face of foreign invasion , James panicked and fled the country in December 1688 ( though it took him two attempts before he finally escaped to France ) , and in February 1689 a specially convened Convention Parliament established William and Mary as joint King and Queen and debarred all Catholics from the succession in the future . |
| 17 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 18 | It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village . |
| 19 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 20 | Her mind was still seething when she reached Maggie 's ; it took her two attempts to key the code into the computer-lock right-handed . |
| 21 | It took her two hours to come up with that . ’ |
| 22 | It took her two weeks to go through the whole house — ten working days . |
| 23 | It took her two weeks after the abortive occupation to stick them together again . |
| 24 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I do n't know — it lasted me two meals . |
| 26 | Made two , erm , cooked two eggs , and it lasted me two days , whereas you know , usually if I go downstairs , I do n't have to make anything , because all their pre-prepared anyway . |