Example sentences of "been [verb] for [num] days " 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 | It was widely reported that armed police had besieged the state-owned Jerada colliery , which had been occupied for 10 days in late December 1988-early January 1989 by 400 miners . |
| 3 | A state of emergency , which already existed over two-thirds of the country ( representing more than 50 per cent of the population ) , had been reimposed for 30 days in the capital Lima on March 23 in an effort to protect candidates , following the murder of a FREDEMO congressional candidate , Julio Gálvez . |
| 4 | In Kent v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner , a blanket ban had been imposed for 28 days in the light of the Brixton disorders of 10–13 April , and disorder at several Bank Holiday fairs . |
| 5 | Barbara Allsopp and her husband Alan have n't been seen for three days . |
| 6 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 9 | The opening night of the Folies had been postponed for two days . |
| 10 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 11 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 12 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 13 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
| 14 | It seemed a wise precaution to lunge him first , as he had not been ridden for three days , and this was accomplished in a corner of the field without either difficulties or a great deal of finesse . |
| 15 | Here 's the son of Kirk Douglas has been jailed for five days after kicking a policeman ! |
| 16 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
| 17 | The Lockerbie enquiry 's been suspended for two days after a solicitor representing families of American victims , died in a car crash . |
| 18 | ‘ Gary Shepherd , dismissed after only two minutes of our opening game at Stanton , has been suspended for 21 days … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | By then Jeremy had been missing for 11 days . |
| 21 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 25 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |
| 26 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 27 | As deputy chief of Sabah 's Institute for Development Studies , whose activities were viewed by the central government as a threat to the integrity of the Malaysian Federation , Ongkili had been held for 59 days under the Internal Security Act on suspicion of carrying out actions prejudicial to national security . |
| 28 | She was of course referring to the Salisbury Annual Pleasure Fair that has been held for three days commencing on the third Monday in October for the last seven hundred years . |