Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] day [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the twelve days before Christmas a black cloud hung over the Ramseys . |
| 2 | However , Parke may soon be at the heels of Del Harris , the 20-year-old England No. 1 who had to battle hard for the second day in succession . |
| 3 | 2 Provide any dressing equipment needed for the early days after discharge . |
| 4 | We believe in a God who offers complete forgiveness where there has been failure , and new strength for the future day by day . |
| 5 | But her own body told her a different story which , lying here for the long days of rest which had been prescribed for her , she had heard clearly enough through the bird-twitter of Linnet and her mother , and Tristan 's determined joviality . |
| 6 | SOME WAYS OF TRAVELLING are synonymous with luxury and romance and evoke nostalgic yearnings for the great days of travel when black tie was de rigueur as the traveller sauntered through Europe and Asia , or crossed the oceans . |
| 7 | They have to arrange every detail for the big day from hotel bookings to portaloos ; ordering the marquee ; finding referees , umpires and stewards and more ! |
| 8 | Yesterday , after purple thunderheads had bled rain over the hills for the third day in succession , the air had dried up . |
| 9 | Besides myself there were three other passengers , but they all disembarked at Rarotonga , and after that , for the three days at sea before we reached Koraloona , Robins and I were more or less on our own . |
| 10 | The children will visit Edenside later this month for two ‘ familiarisation ’ days in the classrooms at Kelso before returning to Heiton for the last day of term . |
| 11 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 12 | ‘ So you still have n't decided to give the poor guy a break , even for the last day on set ? ’ |
| 13 | Was this th during the early days of electricity in the in the area ? |
| 14 | Problems during the filming in Sweden included no official stills photographer to take publicity pictures during the early days of production , a fire at the hotel used by cast and crew , some film damaged during processing- and thick snow . |
| 15 | addresses the attitudes of successive governments towards scientific endeavour , ranging from active encouragement during the Napoleonic days to indifference in the post-Restoration era . |
| 16 | The question of forming an independent union had sharply divided delegates during the five days of debate , despite having been approved in principle at the first congress in June [ see p. 37617 ] . |
| 17 | The decisions taken during the 13 days of crisis were momentous ; as Kennedy and those around him realized , one false move would lead to nuclear war . |
| 18 | Mr Yeltsin was absent from the chamber during the four days of debate . |
| 19 | A spokesman for the hospital said ’ During the four days in question Mrs License had an intravenous drip supplying all her essential nutrients . |
| 20 | She had not before entered the Tower precincts , although its grim-visaged exterior as seen from the river , particularly during the dark days of winter , had frequently given her a sense of foreboding . |
| 21 | It is always advisable to have the mare and foal checked over by your veterinary surgeon during the first day of life . |
| 22 | Despite the deployment of 100,000 paramilitary troops and police , to forestall what Army Chief of Staff General Mirza Aslam Beg had claimed on Oct.1 was " an extremely dangerous " plot to disrupt the elections , 39 people were reported killed in separate incidents during the two days of polling . |
| 23 | During the 12 days of Christmas , women stopped spinning only to start again on Distaff Day . |
| 24 | The Justices of the Forest were to drive the deer from all disafforested districts into the remaining forests during the forty days after disafforestment : after the expiration of that time places put out of the forest were to be exempt from the operation of the Forest law . |
| 25 | During the 30 days of training at Wokingham , Pete and Andrew became the best of buddies and Wendy accepted a delighted Andrew 's marriage proposal . |
| 26 | Gastrulation , in the sense of continued ingression through the streak , persists up to and during the 10th day of gestation , but towards the end of the 8th day the first signs of organogenesis are apparent . |
| 27 | Chrysanthemums , poinsettia , corn , coffee and others flower during the shortening days of autumn and are known as short-day plants . |
| 28 | Compared with recent serious journalistic books on science , such as the Eight Days of Creation and The Soul of a New Machine , Scientific Temperaments is a light confection . |
| 29 | Tentatively , 23 August 1990 was marked down as the official day of opening , when Ceauşescu would address a quarter of a million loyal subjects from the balcony on the second floor . |
| 30 | Between the two days of carnival , on 26 July 1945 , the results of the general election — delayed by the counting of servicemen 's votes — were announced . |