Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 2 | I like to remember the old days when we were together , for the first time . ’ |
| 3 | When my oldest son Blair said farewell sadly to the Outer Hebrides and came to work in Aberdeenshire , my wife Ann and I arranged to spend a few days there , fishing and exploring a country that neither of us knew . |
| 4 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 5 | But time and expense means I have to economise and therefore I choose to bait every other day except for the last three days when I will bait on each of them . |
| 6 | I liked to have a few days out in Middlesbrough , Sunderland or Newcastle but now I ca n't do this anymore and I 'm stuck in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ After two weeks away , I wanted to spend an extra day at home with my wife and three children , ’ said Smyth . |
| 8 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 9 | Everyone else has gone home , except the poor wretches who are spending the hols at school , and we three are independent citizens whom she invited to spend an extra day . |
| 10 | Opt for a self-drive car only if you want to spend the whole day struggling to get off Hong Kong Island . |
| 11 | And if you want to stay an extra day it 's about twenty quid extra . |
| 12 | What did she go to see the other day that she reckon was a load of rubbish ? |
| 13 | you have to wait a few days for it to clear do n't ya ? |
| 14 | We prepared to leave the next day . |
| 15 | ‘ We wanted to start the final day within a minute of Carlos . |
| 16 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 17 | The car rumbled about him … even more restful than the noise of train wheels in the old days ; he tried to remember the old days … |
| 18 | After dinner , the person at the top of the list is offered first choice of all the hotel water and selects where he wants to fish the following day . |
| 19 | How he loves to recall the far-off days before the Netherlandish beetle savaged the English elm , before the uplands were girdled with Christmas trees . |
| 20 | Autee Lord Justice had this to say at page nine two seven quote , having decided that he , brackets the judge close brackets , could make no allowance for the possibility of increased pension payments because of the increased cost of living index , he had to decide the present day value of the fixed sum payable in thirty one years time . |