Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or listening for days on end while she dithered |
| 2 | She 's the kind of person who 'd probably forget to eat or sleep for days while she was painting , then eat ravenously for the next week to make up , if she could . |
| 3 | After Mark 's funeral Robyn 's lips had been so painful that she had hardly been able to speak or smile for days — but then that had suited her fine , still suited her , although no one guessed , except Anne perhaps . |
| 4 | Frail souls and stronger can be dashed to the ground by gale force winds that blow for days on end . |
| 5 | The little stream wound among floating eyots of water flowers that looked like day stars reflecting a mystical heaven . |
| 6 | While this is true , we want you to feel in control of your weight and to be able to interpret the minor fluctuations that occur from day to day . |
| 7 | The increasing levels of Oestrogen that occur from day five also prepare the womb for ovulation and a possible fertilised egg . |
| 8 | That the Select Committee have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House , to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom and to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before it . |
| 9 | I am able to examine concepts , she thought , to test values , for I have thought things out , I am not like my sister who bakes and cleans and shops and irons , and goes from day to day , never realising what her mind might discover , content to accept what has always been told her , without a doubt . |
| 10 | ‘ Kind sirs , ’ Babushka said , ‘ why do you travel by night and sleep by day ? |
| 11 | PARTICIPATION AND CONTROL IN DAY CENTRES FOR YOUNG DISABLED PEOPLE AGED 16 TO 30 YEARS |
| 12 | Even Washington , still one of the world 's most opulent capitals , bears the scars — cafes , shops and offices closed down , and huge numbers sleeping on the streets by night and begging by day . |
| 13 | Bruised and bloodied from days of interrogation on the floor of a cell that was an inch deep in his own shit and piss , the Colonel had found him and freed him . |
| 14 | To slumber and snore till day doth again peep , |
| 15 | Made our hole cave right in , we was cold and drenched for days ! ’ |
| 16 | He walked by night and slept by day , the midday sun being too hot for him . |
| 17 | Like most wrasse , the green wrasse is carnivorous and feeds by day on tiny edible morsels in the water , small crustacea , worms , molluscs and other small bottom living creatures . |
| 18 | Garfield , of all the institutions in which she had ever worked , was most responsive to mood , to atmosphere ; it shifted and changed from day to day , from week to week , for it had , like the larger society of her larger imagining , its own corporate , its own embodied spirit , all the more powerful for its caging , its high barbed wire , its high walls . |
| 19 | and pray for day |
| 20 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 21 | There is nothing so soul-destroying as living from day to day with no purpose . |
| 22 | When seen by day , it appears shorter-winged than these three , and larger and stouter in build than Barn and Long-eared . |
| 23 | The hallmarks of Thomas à Kempis 's approach to the religious life are a rigorous inner self-discipline and a conformity , for reasons of humility , to the existing forms of Christianity as met from day to day wherever you happen to be . |
| 24 | When used for day service , the furnishing comprised three easy chairs , upholstered in green and gold tapestry , one oval centre table in mahogany with inlay of tulip wood and satin wood and two folding side tables . |
| 25 | When measured on day five of omeprazole medication , the basal serum gastrin concentration was significantly increased to 47 ( 14 ) pM ( p<0.02 ) , meal stimulated peak serum gastrin concentration to 89 ( 14 ) pM ( p<0.02 ) and integrated meal stimulated serum gastrin responses to 300 ( 55 ) pm/hour ( p<0.02 ) ( Figs 1–3 ) . |