Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] for [num] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 2 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 3 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 4 | John was brought to the surface at 3 a.m. on 31st October , having been entombed for 2 hours short of 23 days . |
| 5 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 6 | After either Nicocheck or Nicotine Patch had been worn for 24 hours plasma nicotine ( 0.2 µg/l ) and cotinine ( 0.2 µg/l ) concentrations were unchanged , indicating no absorption . |
| 7 | They had been flying for 16 hours 12 minutes , had survived two bad storms and had flown over 1,800 miles of ocean . |
| 8 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 9 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 10 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 11 | A SEARCH is under way for the two-man crew of a light aircraft after wreckage of the single-engined Grob , which had been missing for 24 hours , was found beside Loch Muick , near Ballater , Grampian . |
| 12 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital had to be rescued from a cow slurry pit . |
| 13 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital was up to his neck in cow slurry when found . |
| 14 | The young revolutionary , whom they had been trailing for sixteen hours a day , was proving less useful than Cowley had hoped , not leading them to any of his more dangerous colleagues . |
| 15 | On March 11 anti-terrorist forces stormed a house in Istanbul where three hostages had been held for 17 hours by members of the underground Turkish Revolutionary Party ; a police officer and a hostage were killed . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 17 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 18 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |
| 19 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 20 | And if he 's been travelling for ten hours , how far 's he gone ? |
| 21 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 22 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |