Example sentences of "[pron] for [num] day [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would be with me for four days in July . |
| 2 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 3 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
| 4 | I loved you for thirteen days of my life , and did n't the rest of my life count for anything ? ’ |
| 5 | Judge Geoffrey Kilfoil ordered his arrest and jailed him for 14 days for contempt of court . |
| 6 | Then I treated him for three days with a view of my back and my sulky face . |
| 7 | During the civil war he cast cannon for the king , Prince Rupert staying with him for three days in October 1642 . |
| 8 | The tug refloated the vessel , towed her to a sheltered anchorage where she was made fit for the tow to Hong Kong , and thereafter towed her for four days to docks in Hong Kong . |
| 9 | Perry and me have been without it for five days before this only on methadone . |
| 10 | It is said that the men of Israel are to prepare themselves for three days for this awesome disclosure of God by not going near a woman ( Exod. |