Example sentences of "it [prep] two [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if you leave it for two minutes |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We demand that it changes , we beg of it to alter our lives , we leave it for two hours and assume it will be different when we get back . |
| 4 | four week course , but he 's running it for two hours for two weeks . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | At the age of 37 — old by Australian standards — Border accepts that he is nearing the end of his career but he is desparate to prolong it for two reasons . |
| 7 | ‘ I do it for two reasons , ’ affirms Superia . |
| 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 | Sir David English probably disliked it for two reasons . |
| 10 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 11 | I have n't drawn it for two years now , but … 'She glanced swiftly at her bag , her watch . |
| 12 | Sir Thomas More owned it for two years , although he probably never lived there . |
| 13 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
| 14 | We have n't done it for two years . |
| 15 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
| 16 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 17 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 18 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 19 | There 's not much point in paying out over £100 if you 're only going to use it for two weeks a year on holiday . |
| 20 | Kim was saying , they do it for two weeks ca n't believe they would , the different school though , and then that other chap said that , that , erm |
| 21 | We 've enjoyed this one , we 've had it for two weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ Instead I bit my finger so hard I had teeth marks in it for two days . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm only gon na do it for two days . |
| 24 | Oh yes , and of course when you have it for two days you ca n't actually guard your language all the time |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |
| 27 | You can make oval quenelle shapes with the mixture by moulding it between two teaspoons . |
| 28 | Take it from the liquid , sprinkle it with oil , press it between two plates and leave it until the next day . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She went into the bathroom and I made my own supper by slicing some of the foul cheese and shoving it between two slices of greased plastic bread . |