Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he had actually found the cut wires he was grilled for several days , as were several other suspects , all electricians . |
| 2 | When he got home , his mother rushed him to the Royal Infirmary , wherein he was kept for two days . |
| 3 | Thus , the Dundee tribunal has decided in the unreported case of Cox v Dundee Corporation ( 1974 ) that a man dismissed following a conviction in the Burgh Court for breach of the peace , for which he was sentenced to thirty days , had been treated unfairly . |
| 4 | Three months before opening day he was sentenced to 14 days in Brixton Prison for contempt of a High Court undertaking not to deal in any more counterfeit tape . |
| 5 | In the course of the sequestration proceedings in the sheriff court he was sentenced to 30 days ' imprisonment for contempt of court , because he had entered the licensed premises and interfered with the management thereof after giving an undertaking that he would not do so . |
| 6 | AHMED ASHRAF MUHAMMED MUSTAFA : an agricultural engineer , he was tortured for nine days while detained without charge for six weeks in 1989 . |
| 7 | And there it was , in the late nineties , he was adding up his pence and his shillings and the odd pound or two here and there , these were his costs of making the pictures that he was making in those days , and then when you turned over and we came to nineteen hundred , nineteen hundred and one , nineteen hundred and two , erm the figures had broadened and under the pounds into three figures and then into four . |