Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was kidnapped for ten days . |
| 2 | I was elected for two years running onto the NUS Lesbian and Gay Committee and served for one year on the London Students ' Organization executive committee . |
| 3 | ‘ I was devastated for four months after finishing second to Woosnam last year , but now I realise the value of that defeat . |
| 4 | Suppose , for example , you are employed for three years , of which the first is to be spent abroad and the other two in Great Britain . |
| 5 | I 've thought guaran two machines you 're guaranteed for four years then , cos they did n't write the serial number down , so if I got two machines and it goes faulty I just send it back and say this machine 's faulty , they do n't know how many I 've got |
| 6 | She is milked for 10 months of the year and pregnant for nine months . |
| 7 | She was treated for 1 month with valproate 2 g daily ( 40 mg/kg ) , then nausea , vomiting , and abdominal pain occurred . |
| 8 | Sheila alleged that she was dazed for three days following the attack , suffering a black eye and a cut on her forehead . |
| 9 | She was jailed for six months yesterday after a judge told her she had caused chaos and fear to boost her restaurant 's profits . |
| 10 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 11 | She was driven for 20 minutes to the Eastern docks , Dover . |
| 12 | NAZLI TOP : A 23-year-old nurse and midwife , she was tortured for four days at the Anti-Terror Branch of Istanbul Police Headquarters while three months ' pregnant . |
| 13 | For entering churches in Bristol ‘ to bear testimony against their formalities ’ , she was imprisoned for three months in 1654 . |
| 14 | The thing is , she was arrested for ten years for going to North Korea without government permission . |
| 15 | We were separated for four hours in Peterborough once — I looked everywhere for him . |
| 16 | If they are not claimed by their owners they are kept for seven days after which if they can not be sold they can be destroyed . |
| 17 | They are fixed for five years at open market value , based on a detailed profit and loss account taking into account the outgoings , turnover , style , size and location of the pub . |
| 18 | They are appointed for four years . |
| 19 | To Esau the reunion means they must now journey on together , but when he suggests it Jacob replies : ‘ My lord knows that the children are frail , and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me ; and if they are overdriven for one day , all the flocks will die . |
| 20 | They are issued for three months ( 91 days ) at a weekly tender ( an auction where bids are submitted in writing ) . |
| 21 | No er in the Methodist er ci circuits they move them on , they 're , they 're invited for three years . |
| 22 | They 're disallowed for six months and then coming and |
| 23 | Just £9.50 , they 're guaranteed for five years . |
| 24 | Unfortunately the 1926 Illuminations had to be terminated prematurely because of a miners ' strike , although they were reinstated for one night on October 2 for the opening of New South Promenade by Lord Derby . |
| 25 | After being placed in quicklime to dry , they were steamed for twelve hours — a process that was repeated several times . |
| 26 | Frailties throughout the team had been ruthlessly exploited at Leicester , where they were taken for 60 points . |
| 27 | They were incubated for one hour at 4°C , with a series of PT-gliadin IgG rabbit antibodies ( 0.07 mg/ml , 0.028 mg/ml , 0.014 mg/ml ) diluted with phosphate buffered saline , pH 7.4 . |
| 28 | ‘ As a driver who is generally considered as being more level-headed than most , I want to know whether there is any danger of me being banned for two months if I have an accident here at Phoenix . |
| 29 | Gruinard Island is prominent off-shore : this was commandeered by the military authorities during the last war for experiments in chemical weapons , the ground being so contaminated that approaches to it were forbidden for forty years afterwards , the ban only recently being lifted . |
| 30 | It is calculated for two cases : shear deformation and uniaxial stretching and compression . |