Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] for [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Question : Which piece of equipment works for you for 365 days a year , 24 hours a day , saves you money , protects your reputation , helps you comply with the law , and is expected to function without complaint for up to 10 years ? |
| 2 | If 14 days be a reasonable length of time in such a contract in this particular trade , and if he waits seven days before entrusting the goods to a third person on sale or return , that third person has the right to keep them as against him for 14 days , whereas the original owner has a right to the return of them within seven days from that date and I think that is clearly an act inconsistent with anything but his having adopted the transaction . ’ |
| 3 | They would be with me for four days in July . |
| 4 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 5 | He 's been with her for three days now . |
| 6 | He asked us to call a group together , black and white , to meet with him for two days to seek God 's guidance together . |
| 7 | One man was lost in the Mexican desert for eight days , having had only enough water with him for one day . |
| 8 | During the civil war he cast cannon for the king , Prince Rupert staying with him for three days in October 1642 . |
| 9 | It hardened to a mask , and she lay under it for three days , wandering inside her body . |
| 10 | Greg , Pippa , Emily , Tom and Bill all came over from America , and stayed with us for eight days . |
| 11 | ‘ Instead I bit my finger so hard I had teeth marks in it for two days . ’ |
| 12 | The family could quite well manage without me for two days . |
| 13 | I 'd had enough middle-aged men slobbering all over me for one day . |
| 14 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
| 15 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've bowled to him for two days and I ca n't get him , ’ he explained , ‘ so I just want to loosen up . ’ |
| 17 | which in a way were pleased we have n't got to make the heart rending decision of him having his legs off , cos Denny told us , mum kept saying to him for three days , he would arch his back ooh , ooh , could n't move , and mum said yes he |
| 18 | She realised that not having spoken to him for ten days had given her a perspective she had not previously had — a perspective on herself as well as him . |
| 19 | Perry and me have been without it for five days before this only on methadone . |