Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] for [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 2 | Helen ( 20 ) was yesterday locked up for seven days for what the judge described as a ‘ nasty campaign of noise and harassment ’ . |
| 3 | Thereafter , it is slightly intimidating when subjects are set down for each day 's debate , and we feel a little restricted in moving beyond the sphere of the Ministers on the Front Bench . |
| 4 | The company said last week that 3,300 production workers at its Ryton plant , at Coventry , would be laid off for four days from today because of a drop in demand from continental Europe . |
| 5 | On another occasion when I was holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia while it poured with rain , an ordnance survey map , my first hand knowledge of the area and an illustrated catalogue of Turner 's work allowed me to prepare for locating the sites where he worked . |
| 6 | She agreed , but said that before he began work with Brian Harley — after the Safari circuit but before the European Tour began — he had gone off for several days ’ training . |
| 7 | In February the Japanese made a great effort to surround a British and Indian force in Arakan , but the result was a resounding victory for our men , who had indeed been cut off for some days , but supplied by air . |
| 8 | The former England midfielder underwent surgery to remove a blood clot on Monday and was promptly ruled out for ten days . |
| 9 | Whatever your circumstances , the point is that you should have enough money coming in in the Income column to meet the outgoings in the Expenditure column with , hopefully , a bit left over for rainy days and holidays . |
| 10 | The traumatic experiences the men had already been through — the drama of the inrush of slurry , the knowledge that they were entombed , the foul air they had lived in for two days , and the threat of the gathering gas — meant that the half-mile walk wearing apparatus , and a further one and a half miles to the surface , would be a severe test of their remaining stamina and resolve . |
| 11 | In another disruption to the troubled plant 's operation , Kozloduy 's second reactor was shut down for six days in early January after an escape of radioactive material from the central circulation pump . |