Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [adv] [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 2 | She 'd been there two days and was running out of money . |
| 3 | She had stayed in the cellar for what she thought was about three days and then realised that she had n't felt the vibration of gunfire for some time , perhaps a day and a night . |
| 4 | You 've been here two days now , and we 've still hardly discussed the divorce . |
| 5 | She had been here four days now , and , true to his word , Jonas had said nothing about Travis or the jade , which now stood in its rightful place in the display cabinet . |
| 6 | When she had been here three days a man had trailed up the stairs , let in by another tenant , hammering on her door . |
| 7 | There were ten birthday cards on the mantelpiece , but they had been there two days and she took them down . |
| 8 | He has been there 19 days — God knows how he looked when he arrived . |
| 9 | It had been almost three days since they had first met in hell , in the arena where the mysterious traveller had fought his deadly foe . |
| 10 | He 's been there five days now . |