Example sentences of "day she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |
| 2 | In the pre-Marcus days she 'd seemed to have greater control over every aspect of her nervous system than she did now . |
| 3 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 4 | These days she sought out excuses to be on her own . |
| 5 | Some days Christine was quiet and unhappy , some days she laughed and sang . |
| 6 | For forty days she banishes him to the stables and piggeries . |
| 7 | Early in my CBC days she persuaded me and John Avison to donate silver cups for an annual music competition . |
| 8 | For the first time in days she felt relaxed , rejuvenated even , as though the trees had somehow managed to impart new life into her . |
| 9 | For the first time in days she felt a stirring of life inside her . |
| 10 | Within a few days she seemed very accepting of the situation , almost enjoying not having her husband around the house . |
| 11 | Within about 10 days she knew that when the phone rang at night it would be Tony , despite never having seen a phone before . |
| 12 | The woman searches — though these days she does n't know it , matters of procreation being so far from anyone 's thoughts — for a good father for her young , adequate in looks , more than adequate as a provider ; the man searches for a good , kind and competent mother for his children , not such a dog as to make copulation a problem — both settle for the best he or she can do . |
| 13 | They 'll say every time she 's on days she does n't turn up . |
| 14 | After the first three days she takes a purificatory bath , and then is given a complete mini-bridal trousseau by her father or , in his absence , her brother . |
| 15 | Over the next two days she continued to evade him . |
| 16 | Bad days she reached for the neck of the nearest bottle , never quite drunk , never quite sober , maundering on to Francis about the impossibility of love . |
| 17 | For the next few days she had carried the tiny dragon everywhere . |
| 18 | In those days she had likened the climb to life : she had dared to hope that there might be wonderful things over the horizon . |
| 19 | Within several days she had forgotten her bad habit and her anxiety , and ceased to require an inducement to let someone climb on her back . |
| 20 | In the early days she had been stung by criticism of the way she dressed . |
| 21 | Within a few days she had resolved to flee the country — her husband would not leave his business — and to join her parents , who had settled in London in 1936 . |
| 22 | In the early days she had had lots of quiet opinions , he remembered , which she had offered him , shyly slyly , couched as a kind of invitation or bait . |
| 23 | For the last few days she had seen them , not as her parents but as two hating individuals carrying on a private war behind screens . |
| 24 | For the second time in two days she had been bought and sold . |
| 25 | Within a few days she had recovered enough to play practice chukkas , going straight into fast polo as though she 'd played it all her life . |
| 26 | Over the past two days she had managed to convince herself that her mother was a different person from the one she knew . |
| 27 | Within two days she had found some information on the Prince 's Trust , which is a scheme set up by the Duke of Cornwall , HRH Prince Charles himself . |
| 28 | She paused for a moment remembering how from her earliest days she had sat with her father in the small shed working the leather . |
| 29 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 30 | The few days she had spent in Thomas Sachs ' company had already begun to have an effect on her . |