Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking for one hole . |
| 2 | I was kidnapped for ten days . |
| 3 | I was elected for two years running onto the NUS Lesbian and Gay Committee and served for one year on the London Students ' Organization executive committee . |
| 4 | I was to starve for thirty-six hours beforehand , take a powerful laxative and drink plenty of clear fluids ‘ including alcohol if you wish ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I was devastated for four months after finishing second to Woosnam last year , but now I realise the value of that defeat . |
| 6 | She was treated for 1 month with valproate 2 g daily ( 40 mg/kg ) , then nausea , vomiting , and abdominal pain occurred . |
| 7 | Sheila alleged that she was dazed for three days following the attack , suffering a black eye and a cut on her forehead . |
| 8 | She was jailed for six months yesterday after a judge told her she had caused chaos and fear to boost her restaurant 's profits . |
| 9 | She was smoking for twenty-five years . |
| 10 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 11 | She was driven for 20 minutes to the Eastern docks , Dover . |
| 12 | NAZLI TOP : A 23-year-old nurse and midwife , she was tortured for four days at the Anti-Terror Branch of Istanbul Police Headquarters while three months ' pregnant . |
| 13 | For entering churches in Bristol ‘ to bear testimony against their formalities ’ , she was imprisoned for three months in 1654 . |
| 14 | The thing is , she was arrested for ten years for going to North Korea without government permission . |
| 15 | A Devon labourer who promised his mother not to marry in her lifetime , finally married only at the age of 51 : ‘ bugger , we was courting for seventeen year . |
| 16 | It was to last for nine hours , spreading from the Olympic Stadium into the streets , houses and offices of Charlottenburg , before the riot police , with their armoured vehicles and water cannons , brought the whole thing under control . |
| 17 | It was silenced for eight days . |
| 18 | In 1707 , Gibraltar became besieged by the Spaniards and it was defended for three years by General Elliot , who became Lord Heathfield and who bought Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , from Lord Egmont , in 1789 . |
| 19 | The sample had a 170:1 split , at an initial temperature of 220°C , ramping at 2°C/minute to 280°C at which it was kept for 15 minutes , using helium as the carrier gas . |
| 20 | It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation . |
| 21 | Earl Godwine held it , and in the time of King Edward , as now , it was assessed for 12 hides . |
| 22 | Nacro says it was built for 107 prisoners , but contains 195. making it eighty two per cent overcrowded . |
| 23 | Nacro says it was built for 107 prisoners , but now houses almost double that . |
| 24 | It was extended for three days after officials reported violence had dropped below the average 30 killings a day . |
| 25 | Described in the commercial directories as a ‘ voluntary school ’ and doubling up as a Sunday school , it was intended for 180 children , and sported Benjamin James as its first headmaster . |
| 26 | Last night it was shown for one night only at a charity screening for St. Edward 's School in Oxford . |
| 27 | It was missing for three years , until recovered unharmed from Bothwell Brig in Lanarkshire . |
| 28 | It was closed for four years from 1980 to 1984 , with the army occupying the campus , and since then has struggled to continue its academic work . |
| 29 | Then on 14 June 1985 TWA Flight 847 was hijacked and forced to land at Beirut where , before the world 's television cameras , it was held for 17 days . |
| 30 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |