Example sentences of "[pron] for [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've got all my money and I 've had no dinner meself for three days , ’ I said . |
| 2 | I have eaten nothing for five days . |
| 3 | They would be with me for four days in July . |
| 4 | The family could quite well manage without me for two days . |
| 5 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 6 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 7 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
| 8 | ‘ They 've asked me for ten days , ’ Blanche said . |
| 9 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |
| 10 | I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days . |
| 11 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 12 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 13 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 14 | TIP : Test unknown materials by soaking them for several days . |
| 15 | If you 've soaked the joints , leave them for several days to dry off completely . |
| 16 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
| 17 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 18 | Like when you 're locked in a room with someone for five days and you wan na kill them after a while . |
| 19 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
| 20 | Most TFTA members hang theirs for 10 days , while Derek allows two to three weeks . |
| 21 | Nicholas went to the King and asked leave to absent himself for four days . |
| 22 | I loved you for thirteen days of my life , and did n't the rest of my life count for anything ? ’ |
| 23 | Question : Which piece of equipment works for you for 365 days a year , 24 hours a day , saves you money , protects your reputation , helps you comply with the law , and is expected to function without complaint for up to 10 years ? |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sorry miss , but the station has been trying to get hold of you for several days , ’ he interrupted . |
| 25 | Green wood advise this should last you for three days forging , so phone them on 071 249 5848 . |
| 26 | And the same thing , that if a major client like the Health and Safety Executive said to me , Ricky we 're running a regional training week in the last week of November , and we want you for three days , you know , I , I do n't say to them well look you know , well two of those days are catch up days , I ca n't possibly do it , why do n't you move your whole regional training week to next week ? |
| 27 | Who , for instance , would have the courage to return a 120 days Note , requesting replacement with one for 60 days ? |
| 28 | He began ‘ running down ’ to Suffolk at weekends on his own , and that Christmas he had his wife accompany him for four days , taking all the Christmas food with them . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've bowled to him for two days and I ca n't get him , ’ he explained , ‘ so I just want to loosen up . ’ |
| 30 | He asked us to call a group together , black and white , to meet with him for two days to seek God 's guidance together . |