Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] day they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest figures show that the Lords cost tax payers £4 million in the year from April 1990 to 1991 , or almost £30,000 for each day they sat . |
| 2 | Condition 2 stated that a charge of £5 plus V.A.T. per transparency was payable for each day they were late being returned . |
| 3 | After eluding their English pursuers for some days they encamped in Stanhope Park in Weardale on 20 July . |
| 4 | After twenty-eight days they would be taken out , washed and packed in hogsheads , and pressed for about ten days . |
| 5 | I think after three days they 've er worn out their welcome . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | After nine days they sighted Talisker through the haze . |
| 8 | After four days they reached 80° South , and made the first depot . |
| 9 | After two days they found him , an exhausted scarecrow of a figure hardly able to stand . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One of these days they 'll just vanish from the face of the earth and never be seen again . |
| 12 | Training Ffestiniog slate men one of these days they say there is no more Ffestiniog slate and that 's it its gone bankrupt and er But I mean that can be easily arranged sort of thing . |
| 13 | They were all very good , but perhaps it was because all the Packs excepting the 3rd Shortfields had chosen characters from well-known books or plays or nursery-rhymes that when the 3rd Shortfields appeared in the quaint uniforms of Brownies of earlier days they won the loudest and longest applause of all . |
| 14 | For three days they parleyed ; Rawn demanding their surrender and the Nez Perce asking to be allowed into Montana in peace . |
| 15 | Their emergency rations ran out and for three days they had just water . |
| 16 | They attempted to take over the city ; for three days they fought the Viet Minh , and in the cross-fire Lieutenant-Colonel Dewey of OSS was shot dead . |
| 17 | For three days they will act out their feelings , confront their emotions , and generally ‘ bond ’ with each other . |
| 18 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 19 | For ten days they hid in the upper room . |
| 20 | They journeyed for four days , and in each day they crossed the seasons twice . |
| 21 | In 2 days they will have hatched and can be transferred to the aquarium ( containing a salt solution ) where they can be kept at room temperature like water-fleas . |
| 22 | In old days they put mountain ash berries and a cast horseshoe over the lintel to frighten away the Fairy Folk . |
| 23 | In these days they were feared of their job . |
| 24 | But they just in these days they just looked at them and said , Alright . |
| 25 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
| 26 | In three days they covered 400 miles . |
| 27 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 28 | In those days they were basically a mime company , though their grotesque appearance , and their ability to wring wild laughter from the depiction of desperate , squalid lives , marked them out as something special . |
| 29 | In those days they were automatically exempt until the first round proper . |
| 30 | In those days they had very few clothes . |