Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I wan I tried for two days to talk about Lady Thatcher . |
| 2 | I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again . |
| 3 | There I stayed for two days . |
| 4 | One child had previous failure to thrive and developed diarrhoea which persisted for 14 days ; the other eight failed to thrive after the onset of diarrhoea . |
| 5 | The General Strike , which lasted for nine days between 3–12 May 1926 , was without doubt the most important industrial conflict of British inter-war history . |
| 6 | No sign of Franklin was found , despite a number of prodigious sledge journeys , including one by Richards which lasted for ninety-three days . |
| 7 | The incident sparked off a riot which lasted for three days [ see p. 37081 ] , and racial tension had been high during the trial . |
| 8 | Dozens of popular tourist spots across the world were represented at the exhibition which ran for five days . |
| 9 | The seminar , which ran for two days , was attended by some 300 people . |
| 10 | Hastening north towards the Musselshell River early the next morning , the Nez Perce fought a fierce rearguard action against Sturgis ' Bannock and Crow scouts which continued for two days and resulted in the deaths of one Nez Perce warrior and two old men , and the capture of forty horses . |
| 11 | The protests , which continued for two days , were sparked mainly by price rises . |
| 12 | The duty officer promised to get in touch but nothing happened for two days . |
| 13 | What do you mean you tried for two days ? |
| 14 | Collins , who attended for six days but was not called , on November 2 , 1829 , demanded of Godefroy six guineas as his fee for attendance and commenced his action on the following day . |
| 15 | She had for 10 days refused all solid food . |
| 16 | She stayed for four days and Carrie did the cooking at home . |
| 17 | We fought for seven days and |
| 18 | We hid for three days and nights with nothing to eat . |
| 19 | We stayed for three days , and then we took the night boat to Belgium , and arrived at a tall , fine school building in the centre of Brussels . |
| 20 | He and Danny Kirwan were sort of ‘ kidnapped ’ after a gig by this young Munich ‘ jet set ’ crowd ; they disappeared for three days and when they came back that was it . |
| 21 | They journeyed for four days , and in each day they crossed the seasons twice . |
| 22 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 23 | Neither had any inkling of Gooch 's worries as he reported for two days pre-tour training at Lilleshall in each of the weeks leading up to Christmas . |
| 24 | He suffered for 10 days and died on 14 March . |
| 25 | It burned for three days . |
| 26 | It rained for four days . |
| 27 | ‘ Last time I was here it rained for forty days . |
| 28 | It rained for three days . |
| 29 | Reid watched the mess from his hidey-hole in the roof-space where he hid for three days . |
| 30 | He returned for five days in November 1991 when Selena Scott made a TV film A Prince Among Islands , which was shown all over the world . |