Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] for [art] week " in BNC.

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1 POLICE are concerned about the safety of a 20-year-old woman who has been missing for a week .
2 I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now .
3 A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week .
4 ‘ I 've been walking for a week . ’
5 " It 's been raining for a week . "
6 She 's been missing for a week , was going to marry a rising Minister , successful career , everything coming up roses .
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