Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] for [num] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 2 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 3 | The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river . |
| 4 | By then Jeremy had been missing for 11 days . |
| 5 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |