Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [adj] day " in BNC.

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1 I wish you a profitable day . ’
2 Fine , then be off with you and may God give you a good day . ’
3 We 'd really like to give you a good day .
4 I can not remember my first day hunting but I can tell you a normal day of all-day hunting .
5 ‘ Miss Tildy , ’ he said , ‘ I want to say that I 'm sorry for what I did to you a few days ago .
6 I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’
7 I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office .
8 ‘ I see from your notes that your doctor saw you a few days ago . ’
9 Ushers , magistrates , Clerks of the Court , solicitors , and even the odd judge or barrister now nod affably to me or wish me a good day and more than one defendant , during the break while evidence is being weighted , has asked my ‘ professional ’ opinion as to his chances .
10 So , with flight planning filed , mostly mentally , I sat back and waited for the weather to give me a perfect day .
11 My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later .
12 I 'll try , but you 'll have to give me a few days before you pull her in . ’
13 Give me a few days and I 'll do it when Stephen goes to New York . ’
14 I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again .
15 The joke turned against me a few days later as we were preparing to go alongside a ship at Baltic Wharf on the river Crouch .
16 You had better give me a few days .
17 ‘ Alan Dysart phoned me a few days ago . ’
18 ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details .
19 But he agreed the police could have given them a few day 's notice of the situation .
20 They found them a few days later , taking refuge in a small village of thatched mud-walled cabins at the foot of the Partry mountains .
21 A column of 400 Japanese followed them a few days later and reached Remexio , but there were no Australians in the town .
22 BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger .
23 ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’
24 These three are likely to feature in tomorrow 's opening match against a Stellenbosch Farmers XI , though any idea of a nice easy game should be dismissed as Yorkshire , who have been out here for a week , struggled to beat them a few days ago .
25 We give them a three day intensive in in a in fully expensed by us .
26 Eleanor rang him a few days later and he was remarkably cool .
27 Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more .
28 She met him a few days after she started the job .
29 ‘ I got a letter from him a few days later , sent to the travel agents .
30 He has received a letter from one of the farmers which I sent him a few days ago .
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