Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [prep] [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was kidnapped for ten days . |
| 2 | My first job was as a shorthand typist — I was fired after three days , mainly for poor spelling . |
| 3 | And I was sort of juggling , I did n't realize how much I was doing until one day shortly after mother 's death , a lady stopped me and she said has something happened to your mother ? |
| 4 | ‘ There 's hot coffee and croissants , then you 're to sleep for two days . |
| 5 | And with this go , I 've just got to go on through this , the average weight of an consignment Express , or on next day is twenty eight kilos , and if you 're talking about two day , three day , it was ninety nine kilos . |
| 6 | Sheila alleged that she was dazed for three days following the attack , suffering a black eye and a cut on her forehead . |
| 7 | In fact a month before her death , Leonie was treated at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon … but that was for a kidny infection , not the psychiatric treatment she needed for her annorexia nervosa … and she was released after four days . |
| 8 | NAZLI TOP : A 23-year-old nurse and midwife , she was tortured for four days at the Anti-Terror Branch of Istanbul Police Headquarters while three months ' pregnant . |
| 9 | If they are not claimed by their owners they are kept for seven days after which if they can not be sold they can be destroyed . |
| 10 | To Esau the reunion means they must now journey on together , but when he suggests it Jacob replies : ‘ My lord knows that the children are frail , and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me ; and if they are overdriven for one day , all the flocks will die . |
| 11 | They rotate the hips , all babies are routinely examined at delivery and they 'll find quite a number I would , of babies with slightly clicky hips , the reason for that is because of the hormones that have , er are in the baby 's body to relax all the muscles , those will go away after a few days , so when they 're re-checked at twelve days a number of the clicks they heard originally will no longer be there . |
| 12 | Assad had urged recognition that " the only beneficiary of the present crisis is Israel " , promising that Syrian forces would fight alongside Iraqis if they were attacked after a withdrawal from Kuwait , and arguing that only such a withdrawal would avoid giving the " enemies of our Arab nation … the golden opportunity which they were dreaming of one day having , and which today is present " . |
| 13 | They were found after two days with the help of the police and brought home . |
| 14 | ‘ At home you hardly know whether it 's raining from one day to the next but here you feel better every time the sun comes out . |
| 15 | It was silenced for eight days . |
| 16 | But this peedie fairy anyway , it was wandering about one day very disconsolate at the prospect and found a sparrow with a broken wing . |
| 17 | It was extended for three days after officials reported violence had dropped below the average 30 killings a day . |
| 18 | It was filmed in eleven days and cost $7000 to make . |
| 19 | Then on 14 June 1985 TWA Flight 847 was hijacked and forced to land at Beirut where , before the world 's television cameras , it was held for 17 days . |
| 20 | When he got home , his mother rushed him to the Royal Infirmary , wherein he was kept for two days . |
| 21 | Thus , the Dundee tribunal has decided in the unreported case of Cox v Dundee Corporation ( 1974 ) that a man dismissed following a conviction in the Burgh Court for breach of the peace , for which he was sentenced to thirty days , had been treated unfairly . |
| 22 | Three months before opening day he was sentenced to 14 days in Brixton Prison for contempt of a High Court undertaking not to deal in any more counterfeit tape . |
| 23 | In the course of the sequestration proceedings in the sheriff court he was sentenced to 30 days ' imprisonment for contempt of court , because he had entered the licensed premises and interfered with the management thereof after giving an undertaking that he would not do so . |
| 24 | AHMED ASHRAF MUHAMMED MUSTAFA : an agricultural engineer , he was tortured for nine days while detained without charge for six weeks in 1989 . |