Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] day [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 2 | If this is in the form of a loose box to which the cow can adapt for some days before calving , then there is inevitably less stress . |
| 3 | I lay for several days in a small wooden room , convinced for some reason that I was on an ocean-going ship . |
| 4 | Some lived for several days in this pitiful condition , their feet gnawed by dogs , until they died in agony . |
| 5 | The people lived for seven days in shelters made of branches — essentially as an agricultural thanksgiving , but also as a reminder of their tent-dwelling days in the wilderness ( Leviticus 23:43 ) . |
| 6 | Rats were treated for eight days with indomethacin ( 2 mg/ kg , twice daily ) in addition to cyclosporin A ( 5 or 10 mg/kg daily ) . |
| 7 | The haemoglobin concentration continued to fall for two days after his admission , reaching a nadir of 61 g/l . |
| 8 | Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots . |
| 9 | An attendance rate of 90% , however , does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent : the missing 10% could come from a small minority of pupils with lengthy absences — the same ten pupils absent for the whole week — or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences — fifty pupils absent for one day over the course of the week . |
| 10 | These were the words she had longed to hear , the ones she had wished for that day at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 11 | Maria replied that she was to be allowed to come for two days in the week following her letter . |
| 12 | It was widely reported that armed police had besieged the state-owned Jerada colliery , which had been occupied for 10 days in late December 1988-early January 1989 by 400 miners . |
| 13 | The ANC and the government are scheduled to meet for two days from Monday to finalise arrangements for the planning conference and to refine details of their bilateral agreements on transitional rule . |
| 14 | A CAMERAMAN was plucked to safety yesterday after being trapped for two days inside an active volcano . |
| 15 | ENGINEER Terry Higgins dropped himself right in it when he rescued a teenager trapped for three days in a freezing bog . |
| 16 | This is also the venue for the annual Howden Agricultural Show , which every year brings friends and visitors together to revel for two days in the old-fashioned atmosphere of an English country fair . |
| 17 | And it is to pay him £11,188 the maximum that could have been awarded if the tribunal , which has already sat for ten days in March , found in his favour . |
| 18 | Aguinaldo was in January suspended for 60 days for supporting the December 1989 coup attempt by rebel troops [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 19 | TAKE a piece of fish , cook for 20 minutes until it has a wood-like texture , marinate for two days in soy sauce and sesame oil , then serve . |
| 20 | Individual faecal excretions were made for five days in conjunction with the indium-111 neutrophil studies . |
| 21 | we we we speak for two days at least in compiling a script . |
| 22 | In Kent v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner , a blanket ban had been imposed for 28 days in the light of the Brixton disorders of 10–13 April , and disorder at several Bank Holiday fairs . |
| 23 | A state of emergency , which already existed over two-thirds of the country ( representing more than 50 per cent of the population ) , had been reimposed for 30 days in the capital Lima on March 23 in an effort to protect candidates , following the murder of a FREDEMO congressional candidate , Julio Gálvez . |
| 24 | The transformants selected on minimal medium were grown for 4 days on solid medium with uridine ( 100 mg/liter ) . |
| 25 | The tribe danced for three days in the hope that the Great Spirits would send them rain . |
| 26 | If the equilibrium price has moved substantially and suddenly , the limit pricing system could mean that the market is effectively closed for several days at a time . |
| 27 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 28 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 29 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 30 | The mass registration followed the July 20 statement by President Roh Tae Woo that the South Korean border would be opened for five days from Aug. 13 . |