Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 2 | You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day . |
| 3 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 4 | I have , I hope and think , moved on since that day . |
| 5 | Many of the documents signed at Halling bear the signatures of these men and among these we find Phillip de Poucnessh now known as Punish Hill ; Richard le Veel , Veles of Snodland ; John le Lad now Lads Farm ; John de Holoweye , Holoway Court Snodland ; and another name that lives on to this day is Bavens Bank , which probably derives its name from Adam de Bavent . |
| 6 | Diana now looks back on those days at Coleherne Court as the happiest time of her life . |
| 7 | Returning now to that day in 1811 , the hair-raising events of those next few hours graphically unfold through the words of the voyagers themselves , taken from a contemporary account in The Gentleman 's Magazine : |
| 8 | Looked forward to this day for so long , I have . |
| 9 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 10 | So Ariel kept vigil as the night came down on that day nearly four hundred years ago , when everything changed for them . |
| 11 | Anyway , Davy came along and Steve Marriot also came along on that day , because quite a few people heard about it , as we put the word out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street . |
| 12 | More than 80 children came along on some days , and many people said they hoped it would become an annual event , she said . |
| 13 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 14 | I mean what do you do normally on those days . |
| 15 | The last words of his opening contribution say : I feel sure that the time will come when people will ask why we did n't do more in this day and age to preserve those wise traditions that form mankind 's lifeline with the profoundly mysterious laws of the universe . |
| 16 | For you know , this is what he has said ever since that day . |
| 17 | Grahame begins the prologue of The Golden Age with the wistful phrase , ‘ Looking back to those days of old , ere the gate shut behind me … |
| 18 | In view of the slowness with which changes of mental outlook came about in those days , it is not surprising that even after the introduction of the mechanical clock in the fourteenth century most people , including many of the more sophisticated , were far less concerned in their daily life with the passage of time than we are . |
| 19 | If you eat more on some days and less on others , you will shed weight just as successfully as if you stuck to the same number of calories each day . |
| 20 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 21 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 22 | And yet you know you think families 'd stick together in this day and age . |
| 23 | Just another form of the takeaway service some blacks are going in for these days . |
| 24 | Toilet lanolin , obtainable from any chemist , with its base of an oily substance extracted from wool , is an adequate curative , rubbed well into the leather and polished off after several days . |
| 25 | You may be able give up gradually , or decide one day to remove everything connected with smoking from your house — and give up from that day on . |
| 26 | Because erm even going back to those days it was the bright ones that were pushed forward and the the sort of dog take the hinder most sort of thing you know . |
| 27 | But as you look at it nowadays you can see if they were going back to these days would we still have the same interest . |
| 28 | Modern cook-chill processes , using liquid nitrogen , chill partly cooked food very rapidly to just above freezing point at which temperature it will keep perfectly for several days . |
| 29 | I think I will look back on this day and think , I really had quite a distressing haircut did n't I , but also that this was the first day I was introduced to the humour of Vic and Bob . |
| 30 | I I I think erm a lot of teachers would now look back on those days with er a certain fondness now bearing in mind what 's what 's happened since and the the the succession of education secretaries we 've had since since then I mean had the only one in recent years who I would say has attempted a genuine dialogue with the teachers and tried to do something constructive is John McGregor . |