Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downstairs in casualty Diriham Ali , 21 , patient number 35 in the log book , is being treated for four gunshot wounds . |
| 2 | A MAN was fighting for his life last night after being carried for 500 yards on the bonnet of a hit-and-run car . |
| 3 | A CAMERAMAN was plucked to safety yesterday after being trapped for two days inside an active volcano . |
| 4 | THREE 14-year-old Scouts were found yesterday after being trapped for 18 hours in torrential rain on a Lake District mountain . |
| 5 | Two survivors — both women — were cut free after being trapped for 20 minutes in the wreckage . |
| 6 | Whether they will feel as enthusiastic after being deluged for three weeks with the results of the £30m-plus likely to be spent by the main parties is more questionable . |
| 7 | Possibly , then , the orang-utan has been excluded from the ground through competition with man , and has become arboreal , perhaps also as a result of being hunted for 30000 years by its competitor . |
| 8 | Agassi 's promotion despite being sidelined for eight weeks with tendonitis of the right wrist was expected with the Wimbledon seeding committee keen to officially acknowledge their reigning champion . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the Dak took on a new role in 1948 , as the mount of 60 Squadron , being used for two years on a nationwide aerial survey . |
| 10 | Imagine being crammed for two hours in a sweltering tent under 250 kilowatts of stage lighting , along with 200 other photographers ; your eardrums assaulted by the machine-gun fire of motor-drives and curses in assorted languages , your nostrils assailed by a breath-catching blend of garlic , stale cigarettes and old shirts . |
| 11 | Rain caused a landslide , resulting in the A1 bypass at Newcastle being closed for 12 hours . |
| 12 | Cooke then spent a year at a commercial school at Neatishead before being apprenticed for five years to a wholesale draper in Norwich . |
| 13 | The Borrowdale mines in the lane District , discovered in 1564 , yielded such fine graphite that it was jealously guarded , extractions only being sold for six weeks of the year . |
| 14 | A EURO information bus arrives at Chester Castle car park today after being based for two days in Ellesmere Port . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the high-end 620 chip , for moderately to massively parallel servers , is said to be being set for 64 bits with a special environment mode bit that can switch between 32- and 64-bit operation . |
| 16 | ‘ He can sit in a dug out watching our A team as comfortably as he can sit in London , not being involved for five days . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That is not easy because we have only a few days together after being split for 10 months . |
| 18 | I 'm being charged for two meters . |
| 19 | The competition is being run for five months , of which this is the fourth , so you 've still got two chances to win this holiday of a lifetime . |
| 20 | Humans become unconscious after being submerged for 3 hours in water at 15°C ( 60°F ) . |
| 21 | Dai Walter Jones ( no relation ) was given a job at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ after being hospitalized for five years with a serious illness and with little prospect of finding employment elsewhere as he was approaching retirement age . |
| 22 | However , an aid convoy and a French field hospital trying to reach Srebrenica remained blocked yesterday while trucks intended for the Muslim town of Zepa were ordered to return to Belgrade by the UN after being stalled for six days . |
| 23 | We even found a record of the castle being besieged for one day during the Civil War . ’ |
| 24 | AN ELDERLY woman died after being left for 11 hours on a hospital trolley , an inquest was told yesterday . |
| 25 | The emphasis on map and compass skills comes in the wake of a near disaster last August when a group of 14 children and their young leader were airlifted to safety after being lost for two days east of Dalwhinnie in the Highlands . |
| 26 | The prosection claims they tampered with a statement in a fraud case five years ago which led to a man being jailed for six years . |
| 27 | THE postage stamp price freeze is being extended for five months , the Post Office said yesterday . |
| 28 | It was announced on June 8 that the parliamentary term due to end on June 9 was being extended for 12 months in view of the " war situation " . |
| 29 | Wigan prop Kelvin Skerrett will miss the tie after being banned for five matches last night while Hull second row Steve McNamara received a four-match suspension . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |