Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] for several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrive outside the refuge where I am to stay for several weeks ; it is a house with no name . |
| 2 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 3 | It 's completely restored and it was used for several films — Macbeth and Becket , to name two of them . |
| 4 | Because he had actually found the cut wires he was grilled for several days , as were several other suspects , all electricians . |
| 5 | In 1918 , at the invitation of ( Sir ) Ronald Storrs [ q.v. ] , the military governor of Jerusalem , he was seconded for several months to Palestine to advise on the renewal of crafts and light industries destroyed during the war , and worked closely with C. R. Ashbee [ q.v. ] , the governor 's civil adviser and secretary to the Pro-Jerusalem Society . |