Example sentences of "being [vb pp] for [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CAMERAMAN was plucked to safety yesterday after being trapped for two days inside an active volcano . |
| 2 | A EURO information bus arrives at Chester Castle car park today after being based for two days in Ellesmere Port . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We even found a record of the castle being besieged for one day during the Civil War . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | K. Doraiswamy , executive director of the Indian Oil Corporation , was freed on Aug. 20 after being held for 55 days by the Ikhwan-ul-Muslameen group . |