Example sentences of "it [vb past] he two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cost him two marriages . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |