Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] for [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 3 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
| 6 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 10 | The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river . |
| 11 | By then Jeremy had been missing for 11 days . |
| 12 | The opening night of the Folies had been postponed for two days . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |