Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [vb pp] for [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's the son of Kirk Douglas has been jailed for five days after kicking a policeman ! |
| 2 | ‘ Gary Shepherd , dismissed after only two minutes of our opening game at Stanton , has been suspended for 21 days … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 5 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 6 | In Kent v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner , a blanket ban had been imposed for 28 days in the light of the Brixton disorders of 10–13 April , and disorder at several Bank Holiday fairs . |
| 7 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
| 8 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 9 | A state of emergency , which already existed over two-thirds of the country ( representing more than 50 per cent of the population ) , had been reimposed for 30 days in the capital Lima on March 23 in an effort to protect candidates , following the murder of a FREDEMO congressional candidate , Julio Gálvez . |
| 10 | It was widely reported that armed police had besieged the state-owned Jerada colliery , which had been occupied for 10 days in late December 1988-early January 1989 by 400 miners . |
| 11 | The opening night of the Folies had been postponed for two days . |
| 12 | As deputy chief of Sabah 's Institute for Development Studies , whose activities were viewed by the central government as a threat to the integrity of the Malaysian Federation , Ongkili had been held for 59 days under the Internal Security Act on suspicion of carrying out actions prejudicial to national security . |
| 13 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 14 | The Lockerbie enquiry 's been suspended for two days after a solicitor representing families of American victims , died in a car crash . |