Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] for three days " in BNC.

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1 It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt .
2 She was of course referring to the Salisbury Annual Pleasure Fair that has been held for three days commencing on the third Monday in October for the last seven hundred years .
3 We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines .
4 If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed .
5 They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days .
6 do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ?
7 Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days .
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