Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Instead I bit my finger so hard I had teeth marks in it for two days . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm only gon na do it for two days . |
| 3 | Oh yes , and of course when you have it for two days you ca n't actually guard your language all the time |
| 4 | Perry and me have been without it for five days before this only on methadone . |
| 5 | Well you see we 're a bit further from home now and if we can do it for five days , great , we have n't |
| 6 | a little bit of foresight was n't it for those days ? |
| 7 | Been doing it for twenty days now , and erm , |
| 8 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 9 | Buy a Goblin Steamatic and try it for 30 days . |
| 10 | We then run it into fermenters , adding yeast , then leave it for 3 days to ferment and rack it off into casks . |
| 11 | Do n't wash it for three days ! |
| 12 | Warriors still hunt the jaguar in ritualised fashion ; they must stalk it for three days and it may only be killed with a wooden spear . |
| 13 | It hardened to a mask , and she lay under it for three days , wandering inside her body . |
| 14 | Transfer the pudding to the refrigerator , where you may safely leave it for several days . |
| 15 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 16 | There is lot of it about these days and not just in the police service . |
| 17 | You know when racing folk talk of the festival they describe it as three days of magic and madness , glory or grief . |
| 18 | you do it after six days when the baby 's been taking milk , you may well find something wrong . |
| 19 | When Isabella wins a military victory she celebrates it with eleven days of psalms and the sonorous severities of priests . |
| 20 | Corman admitted , ‘ I did one film really more as a joke to see if I could do it ; filmed it in two days and a night . |
| 21 | He has told colleagues in the force in South Africa ( ‘ There are lots of cops who support me ’ ) that he is ready ‘ to lick your arse in Church Square on a Sunday , if I ca n't solve it in two days ’ — referring to the notorious unsolved murder of the antiapartheid activist , David Webster . |
| 22 | I did it in ten days , but in 1867 Loving took three months to do it . |
| 23 | The debate has moved on and new elements have crept in which make devolution attractive to many people who perhaps did not feel so strongly about it or were even hostile to it in earlier days . |
| 24 | Jesus had claimed to destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days . |
| 25 | Tearing down the temple and re-building it in three days . |
| 26 | He sent for Marko and told him , " You must plant me a vineyard and bring me wine from it in seven days . |
| 27 | And the mothers had to do it in those days , half a crown to do all the washing for this woman . |
| 28 | And erm that 's when you er when you had your a a a new new rig out as they called it in those days , they called it a rig out , new rig out in those days . |
| 29 | And , and of course needlework , but erm they were mainly the , I suppose they were giving you a good er grounding as they 'd call it in those days . |
| 30 | And er great big pulleys with three inch leather belts , if they 'd have done it in , er do it in these days and the factory inspector would have cut him to pieces . |