Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her body had remained hidden for several days . |
| 2 | Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots . |
| 3 | These were the words she had longed to hear , the ones she had wished for that day at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 4 | Their times are added after each day 's stage . |
| 5 | Staff are required to speak English and the children are looked after all day . |
| 6 | The minister was well looked after those days to . |
| 7 | I was reminded of those days in the school chapel and of that battle to hold my integrity against a most well-meaning person , by my experience with the chaplain at the hospital eighteen months ago . |
| 8 | John Poole 's temper can not have been improved when he announced the news of Robespierre 's execution , reported in that day 's Western Flying Post , and prompted from Southey the Histrionic cry , ‘ I had rather have heard the death of my own father . ’ |
| 9 | Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes . |
| 10 | And there were n't so many bags carried in those days as there were in later years , you know , the sort of er haversack thing . |
| 11 | Thus began the Curse of the Bambino , which has not been lifted to this day . |
| 12 | He had a detailed and active knowledge of a wide range of works by other artists and was responsible for the establishment of an outstanding , and now extremely valuable , collection of paintings , drawings , sculpture and other media , which is enjoyed to this day by children in Yorkshire . |
| 13 | A controversial bill normally uses up all the available time on a Friday and other bills due to be considered on that day fail for lack of time . |
| 14 | Because he had actually found the cut wires he was grilled for several days , as were several other suspects , all electricians . |
| 15 | Whatever inhibitory material was present appeared only after the mould had grown for several days , so there was an obvious advantage in having a stock of the active principle ready for bacteriological experiments . |
| 16 | One single man lived in lodgings and his landlady was in the habit of putting in a pudding basin the lunch she had prepared for that day , for him to have warmed up on the morrow . |
| 17 | So she learns to give all her stories happy endings and take her troubles to bed with her — after she has cooked , cleaned , washed and ironed and prepared for another day . |
| 18 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 19 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
| 20 | Memories are made of such days . |
| 21 | I still have the crudely-duplicated tickets for this hop , amusingly priced in those days before sex-discrimination was questioned , ‘ Ladies — 1/6 ’ ; ‘ Gents — 2/6 ’ . |
| 22 | Said Mr Costain : ‘ We would have liked to build a replacement with a wooden verandah and steps , but it ca n't be done in this day and age , so we had to build a concrete one like Fort Knox . ’ |
| 23 | and erm Wickham Market had erm Machine Centre erm , that was used during the war for erm certain courses er particularly for erm tractor drivers , they used to er have a week 's course , they had to apply to the Education Committee and er we got these applications in and erm they spent a week at Wickham Market , then in they used to stay in lodgings if they came from great distances and erm they would learn about the maintenance of erm of tractors and er , I suppose it 's quite a good thing really because er , it was difficult to get any repairs done in those days |
| 24 | In the most serious expression of anti-government feeling since independence in 1964 , at least 40 people were killed and several hundred injured in several days of rioting in early May , as strike action brought Lilongwe and Blantyre to a halt . |
| 25 | Much that was written in those days now sounds appallingly snobbish , and I think it is a great tribute to my parents that we were kept ignorant of such distinctions . |
| 26 | Queen Jane ( the former Lady Jane Grey ) lost the throne on 19 July 1553 — having been sovereign for twelve days — to be succeeded by Mary whose first regnal year was dated from that day , but her second regnal year began on 6 July 1554 , thus ignoring the ‘ reign ’ of Jane . |
| 27 | At the dinner the topic of conversation came round to a discussion of how historically interesting it would have been if people living in Saxon or medieval England had produced scale models of houses built in those days . |
| 28 | When one of the three dates falls on a weekend when cheap-rate calls apply , the concession will be transferred to another day . |
| 29 | ( a ) Every such office shall be attended on each day when it is open to the public or open to telephone calls from the public by : |
| 30 | ‘ I agree totally that where fixtures are moved to another day , supporters should be given plenty of notice so they can make their plans well in advance . |