Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would be with me for four days in July . |
| 2 | The family could quite well manage without me for two days . |
| 3 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 4 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ They 've asked me for ten days , ’ Blanche said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days . |
| 9 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 10 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 11 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 12 | TIP : Test unknown materials by soaking them for several days . |
| 13 | If you 've soaked the joints , leave them for several days to dry off completely . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Most TFTA members hang theirs for 10 days , while Derek allows two to three weeks . |
| 17 | I loved you for thirteen days of my life , and did n't the rest of my life count for anything ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sorry miss , but the station has been trying to get hold of you for several days , ’ he interrupted . |
| 20 | Green wood advise this should last you for three days forging , so phone them on 071 249 5848 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've bowled to him for two days and I ca n't get him , ’ he explained , ‘ so I just want to loosen up . ’ |
| 24 | He asked us to call a group together , black and white , to meet with him for two days to seek God 's guidance together . |
| 25 | I have n't seen him for two days . |
| 26 | If 14 days be a reasonable length of time in such a contract in this particular trade , and if he waits seven days before entrusting the goods to a third person on sale or return , that third person has the right to keep them as against him for 14 days , whereas the original owner has a right to the return of them within seven days from that date and I think that is clearly an act inconsistent with anything but his having adopted the transaction . ’ |
| 27 | Judge Geoffrey Kilfoil ordered his arrest and jailed him for 14 days for contempt of court . |
| 28 | He had been discovered by the abbess 's steward , Richard of Bernstead , who , when he resisted attachment , seized and bound him , took him to Barking , imprisoned him for three days and afterwards delivered him to the forester and the verderer . |
| 29 | Then I treated him for three days with a view of my back and my sulky face . |
| 30 | During the civil war he cast cannon for the king , Prince Rupert staying with him for three days in October 1642 . |