Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 2 | And the same thing , that if a major client like the Health and Safety Executive said to me , Ricky we 're running a regional training week in the last week of November , and we want you for three days , you know , I , I do n't say to them well look you know , well two of those days are catch up days , I ca n't possibly do it , why do n't you move your whole regional training week to next week ? |
| 3 | I have n't seen him for two days . |
| 4 | Sarah 's seen Sharon in town she says how 's things and she went and she says where 's Darren , have n't seen him for three days . |
| 5 | Which is what I meant to erm tt get on to Chris from the press office B B C Well I 'll give him a bell and just organize it for one day . |
| 6 | Well you see we 're a bit further from home now and if we can do it for five days , great , we have n't |
| 7 | I 'm only gon na do it for two days . |
| 8 | He had n't felt anything for three days now . |
| 9 | Most TFTA members hang theirs for 10 days , while Derek allows two to three weeks . |
| 10 | Nicholas went to the King and asked leave to absent himself for four days . |
| 11 | He began ‘ running down ’ to Suffolk at weekends on his own , and that Christmas he had his wife accompany him for four days , taking all the Christmas food with them . |
| 12 | Scrap it for one day . |
| 13 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 14 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 15 | And you visit them for there was one time we visit them for fourteen day daily but I do n't think they do it now . |
| 16 | Do n't wash it for three days ! |
| 17 | I locked myself for two days and nights in my room without food or water or sleep . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I loved you for thirteen days of my life , and did n't the rest of my life count for anything ? ’ |
| 20 | Judge Geoffrey Kilfoil ordered his arrest and jailed him for 14 days for contempt of court . |
| 21 | Been doing it for twenty days now , and erm , |
| 22 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 23 | No , I did n't have anything for five days ! |
| 24 | ‘ They 've asked me for ten days , ’ Blanche said . |
| 25 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 26 | I have eaten nothing for five days . |
| 27 | Then I treated him for three days with a view of my back and my sulky face . |
| 28 | yeah , and the tomatoes were n't bright , ca n't get no more of them nectarines , when he says keep 'em for two days cos they were hard , gets after two days |
| 29 | Buy a Goblin Steamatic and try it for 30 days . |
| 30 | He had been discovered by the abbess 's steward , Richard of Bernstead , who , when he resisted attachment , seized and bound him , took him to Barking , imprisoned him for three days and afterwards delivered him to the forester and the verderer . |