Example sentences of "[adj] day ['s] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 2 | So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ? |
| 3 | For that day 's class she had taken her own watercolours , bought with the Visacard in Reading … |
| 4 | Petty had already intimated that he might not be able to continue his attendance at the debates further ( after 29 October ) , but before the end of that day 's proceedings he explained why ‘ we [ the Levellers ] would exclude apprentices , or servants , or those that take alms , it is because they depend upon the will of other men and should be afraid to displease [ them ] ’ . |
| 5 | After a good day 's fishing he persuaded me to spend the night at Fullcircle . |
| 6 | They are , however , subsidized to some extent , and although the Remploy workers do a full day 's work they do not have quite such demands made on them as they would encounter in open employment . |
| 7 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 8 | The thirty days ' standard he applies to his suppliers is the thirty days standard he expects from his customers . |
| 9 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 10 | ‘ The simplest explanation would be that by pinching a whole day 's deaths you help conceal an interest in just one of them . |
| 11 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |