Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 2 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 3 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 4 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 5 | He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision . |
| 6 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By then Jeremy had been missing for 11 days . |
| 9 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 13 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |