Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] days " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You 've got all my money and I 've had no dinner meself for three days , ’ I said . |
2 | I have eaten nothing for five days . |
3 | They would be with me for four days in July . |
4 | The family could quite well manage without me for two days . |
5 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
6 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
7 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
8 | ‘ They 've asked me for ten days , ’ Blanche said . |
9 | Yeah , there 's nothing about these days is there ? |
10 | I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days |
11 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |
12 | I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days . |
13 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
14 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
15 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
16 | TIP : Test unknown materials by soaking them for several days . |
17 | If you 've soaked the joints , leave them for several days to dry off completely . |
18 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
19 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
20 | They 'd found them after five days , with Sandy 's parents hammering at Ted every minute of the time . |
21 | She had tried them after two days . |
22 | Like when you 're locked in a room with someone for five days and you wan na kill them after a while . |
23 | It should be remembered that a serving sergeant pilot ( as we called ourselves in those days ) had little clue about the policy that emerged from Arthur Marshall ( Air Ministry ) when the plans for one White Paper were never implemented before another White Paper overtook it . |
24 | If everyone can manage this we will all be able to go on quietly shaving our heads , lighting our candles , starving ourselves on particular days of the year — and no-one will mind or probably even notice . |
25 | When I look back the me of those days bears no relation at all to the me now . |
26 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
27 | Most TFTA members hang theirs for 10 days , while Derek allows two to three weeks . |
28 | Nicholas went to the King and asked leave to absent himself for four days . |
29 | And along these power lines also comes death , for we recall that little bit of power in Niagara which in former days used to rid the state of its criminals . |
30 | This instrument had been introduced in the West in the eleventh century from the world of Islam , which in those days enjoyed a higher degree of civilization and of scientific and technological expertise than the West . |