Example sentences of "have been [verb] for [num] 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 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 3 | ‘ Gary Shepherd , dismissed after only two minutes of our opening game at Stanton , has been suspended for 21 days … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
| 10 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | By then Jeremy had been missing for 11 days . |
| 16 | The opening night of the Folies had been postponed for two days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 20 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 21 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 22 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 23 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
| 24 | The Lockerbie enquiry 's been suspended for two days after a solicitor representing families of American victims , died in a car crash . |
| 25 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |
| 26 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |