Example sentences of "for [adj] days [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 2 | For 12 days we enjoyed pulses , rice , vegetables , fish and fruit ; we never felt hungry and every meal was a joy . |
| 3 | For forty days she banishes him to the stables and piggeries . |
| 4 | After eluding their English pursuers for some days they encamped in Stanhope Park in Weardale on 20 July . |
| 5 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 6 | For three days they parleyed ; Rawn demanding their surrender and the Nez Perce asking to be allowed into Montana in peace . |
| 7 | Their emergency rations ran out and for three days they had just water . |
| 8 | They attempted to take over the city ; for three days they fought the Viet Minh , and in the cross-fire Lieutenant-Colonel Dewey of OSS was shot dead . |
| 9 | For three days they will act out their feelings , confront their emotions , and generally ‘ bond ’ with each other . |
| 10 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 11 | Wo n't you please bring a bit of comfort and cheerfulness into my life " Well , " said the Dawn Maiden , " for three days you have spared my fishes , so I will help you . |
| 12 | For three days I went into the library at the Hall hoping to find Laura there and each day I was disappointed . |
| 13 | I mean , God , you know if I 've got ta go down to London for three days I 'd rather do that cos it 's gon na earn me two or three grand . |
| 14 | Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job . |
| 15 | So he rowed out to sea in his little boat , and for three days he neither ate nor fished , but let the tides carry him where they would . |
| 16 | Melissa was about to retort that as she had only known Bonard for three days he could hardly be described as a friend of hers , when a surprised , ‘ Well , what do you know ? ’ from Jack made them both glance round . |
| 17 | Again at Easter he is arguing over his fee for attending the Archbishop at Canterbury and threatens that unless he is payed the sum of twenty shillings a day for three days he would never again obey the Archbishop 's mandate . |
| 18 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
| 19 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 20 | But he had a fever , and for many days he lay there unconscious . |
| 21 | For ten days they hid in the upper room . |
| 22 | to , to , I mean when I first had the er plaster off , which was for ten days it was , I could not believe it that these fingers were not going but I 'm told that that 's quite usual . |
| 23 | For ten days I spent all my spare time in a question-and-answer session till the experience started to confuse and hurt me , also — much to my horror — defile me . |
| 24 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 25 | for ten days she 's there |
| 26 | For five days you kept her ten miles away from me . |
| 27 | For several days we struggled with the wind and waves , but at last the storm died away and the sea was calm again . |
| 28 | For several days he was at death 's door , and a grave had been kept ready in case the worst happened . |
| 29 | For several days he had been watching the moor through the telescope . |
| 30 | The Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda suggested that one of the reasons why Pogosyan was resigning was that for several days he had been unable to secure an audience with Gorbachev to discuss developments in Armenia . |