Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] days the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some days the government did nothing , shaken by these unprecedented disturbances . |
| 2 | For some days the note lay untouched on the table . |
| 3 | After three days the family made the agonising decision to switch the machine off when they were told he would not recover . |
| 4 | After three days the castle capitulated and was demolished . |
| 5 | After ten days the calf had become a haunting presence . |
| 6 | The siege commemorated in my nursery rhyme took place in 1761 : an English fleet cut off supplies to the citadel , and after 38 days the garrison surrendered . |
| 7 | After four days the vapour settles . |
| 8 | If the adventurers have n't buried the bodies properly after seven days the Ghost will attack them , convinced that they were lying . |
| 9 | I 'm sure that one of those days the dog 's jealousy and the child 's charisma , or the combination of both , will lead to grief . |
| 10 | ( Incidentally , oranges and nuts seem to have occupied in the social life of those days the place soft drinks and ice cream occupy today , being consumed in great quantities even in the most dignified circles . ) |
| 11 | Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven . |
| 12 | Many diets fail because they do not provide the variety of foods that the body craves and after a couple of enthusiastic days the willpower begins to weaken . |
| 13 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 14 | For three days the light of the sun is blotted out by " thick darkness " ( probably a khamsin duststorm ) ( 10:21–29 ) . |
| 15 | For three days the murder room was the haunt of SOCO and the Detective Chief Inspector as they quartered every inch in search of fingermarks , blood or saliva samples and other prey for their relentless , questioning minds . |
| 16 | 7 Accommodation of good standing will be provided for all days the Artist is required . |
| 17 | Although for many days the ship was becalmed and progress was slow , if at all , some days the vessel logged 12 knots and made good progress . |
| 18 | It is a mark of the extraordinary faithfulness of St. Mark to the historical situation of the life of Jesus that he does not read back into those days the experience of the Spirit to which he and his friends were used in the post-resurrection era . |
| 19 | In early days the judiciary greatly encouraged litigants to use it and the number of civil applications rose from 356 in 1981 to 1580 in 1989 , the House of Lords having ruled in 1983 that those seeking redress for an infringement of public law rights must proceed by way of this remedy only . |
| 20 | The penicillin injected into Julia 's veins four times a day killed the infection inexorably , and within three days the oxygen tent had been removed and she was sitting up in bed waiting for her meals with real hunger . |
| 21 | The gods smile on those they intend to destroy , and within three days the parchment we bought up was carted down to de Macon 's cog and hoisted aboard . |
| 22 | Within ten days the strike collapsed . |
| 23 | Within ten days the French by their verve and offensive spirit had wrested superiority in the air from the Germans , though still outnumbered and outclassed . |
| 24 | I should have taken the set back and demanded that the shop or manufacturer replace it , but in those days the attitude was that it was a privilege to buy something , and it was just your bad luck if it turned out to be faulty . |
| 25 | Of course , in those days the mistress was generally kept by her lover , set up in a cosy little love-nest somewhere , her accounts settled with no questions asked … |
| 26 | In those days the licensing laws were very strict , especially for off-licence sales , except that all kinds of liquer could he ordered and delivered . |
| 27 | The difference being , of course , that in those days the phenomenon of semi-literacy did not exist and readers of Disraeli 's or Thackeray 's novels would neither mistake them for the real world , nor read them to the exclusion of all real political texts . |
| 28 | In those days the prostate was so far below the standard of respectability that it could not even have been mentioned in the newspaper . |
| 29 | In those days the field was small and consisted mostly of farmers . |
| 30 | In those days the government assessed local authority needs according to a very in the grant related expenditure assessment , G R E A , greas and this is much more complex and sensitive measure of how much it costs to run a city and in those days what the government thought we should be spending and what we thought we should be spending seemed in fact to be very close indeed . |