Example sentences of "[prep] [num] day [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1	Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved .
2	For 12 days we enjoyed pulses , rice , vegetables , fish and fruit ; we never felt hungry and every meal was a joy .
3	For forty days she banishes him to the stables and piggeries .
4	After twenty-eight days they would be taken out , washed and packed in hogsheads , and pressed for about ten days .
5	If after 10 days you are not completely satisfied , simply return the recordings and you will owe nothing .
6	After 35 days he became jaundiced .
7	I think after three days they 've er worn out their welcome .
8	After three days I moved the decorations around and removed the divider .
9	After three days I skipped a lesson and came to see you .
10	Right , the story 's building up to a sort of crescendo erm the the Sanhedrin was saying he heard him say I will tear down this temple which men have made and after three days I will build one that is not made by men with our hindsight , with our knowledge of what went on .
11	After three days she rang to say she was ‘ better ’ . !
12	Anxious not to offend the tsar further , he hesitated ; after three days he gave way , went to Philippopolis and the union of the southern and northern Bulgars was proclaimed .
13	After three days he had limped home , crippled by blisters .
14	He took lots of notes and after three days he said , ‘ Raymond , I want to give you a check .
15	Similarly , in medieval Europe , it was ‘ common sense ’ that one could determine the guilt or innocence of an accused person through ‘ trial by ordeal ’ , e.g. accused people carried a red-hot iron bar for ten paces , and if their wounds were healed after x days they would be declared innocent — again , this method is noticeably absent in modern trials !
16	There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun .
17	After nine days they sighted Talisker through the haze .
18	After five days we removed the packing around the splint .
19	After five days it came with the speed of a poltergeist hurling a vase : Robson is the long time presenter of the Metro Radio programme Night Owls , ghosts strut their stuff at night , the two make a neat marketing ploy .
20	But after 27 days he has travelled 270 miles and on the 28th day he travels the remaining 30 miles and reaches land before he goes to sleep .
21	After 40 days she is encouraged to put aside her black clothes , but she received positive family support .
22	After four days they reached 80° South , and made the first depot .
23	After four days it acquitted three of the defendants on all charges , and acquitted Powell — who had delivered most of the blows — on all but one minor count upon which the jury remained undecided .
24	got that sorted he was speaking to Guy yesterday and apparently if after two days we do n't have certificates then I
25	After two days they found him , an exhausted scarecrow of a figure hardly able to stand .
26	It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out .
27	After two days it would be easy enough to extricate herself .
28	‘ In the end , they told me to give him a bottle because he was too hungry to feed properly , but looking back I 'm sure it was because they did n't have time to help me ; and after two days I had to go home because they needed the bed .
29	As the days passed , hope faded of finding John Brown alive and after 14 days it was agreed that there was no urgency as the search was only to find his body for Christian burial .
30	Figure 3.4 At birth , herring gull chicks will peck equally at models of adult bills of either herring or laughing gulls ; but after seven days they have developed a preference for the model of the adult of their own species .

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