Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [num] day " in BNC.

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31 ‘ Ca n't think what would happen to the shop if I take one day off . ’
32 At this stage the procedures are generally the same as for an ordinary cause and you have 366 days , or 367 days if it is a leap year , to ask the court for an extract decree to be issued .
33 And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about .
34 I mean he would n't listen to anybody else , and she said one day , papa you er you give me a cough with that smoking .
35 I saw her and she said fourteen days ' loss of privileges .
36 And she hath twenty-eight days clear ,
37 suggesting that a couple of days , oh a couple of days is , is enough really , if you , if you get two days out of it
38 If you lose 2 days work you will qualify because there are 6 days in the social welfare week and you are now unemployed for 3 of them .
39 If you prefer one day 's menu to another , make a note of this and return to it in place of one that does n't take your fancy .
40 And we had one day off a month .
41 Sartre said that we must invent the heart of things if we wish one day to discover it , and it is to this end that sensation is the beginning of a transformational process and not an end .
42 At their height , and they lasted four days , 10,000 troops were called out .
43 Well that 's right cos they were thinking of erm , mind you they 've stop , they 've already parted and they stopped two days in and then
44 If the district judge intends to rescind , notice is given to the parties and they have 14 days to object , whereupon a hearing is fixed to decide on rescission .
45 If they work five days , there would , in theory , be a 20 per cent increase in periods worked , therefore on paper you would need a fifth fewer people .
46 And he spent two days trying to impress this upon Forbus and Forbus went back to Arkansas and did exactly what he said he was going to do .
47 If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week .
48 He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten .
49 When Geevor mine announced 300 layoffs , the CAB was ready to move in , and it held four days of emergency advice sessions at the mine .
50 If 14 days be a reasonable length of time in such a contract in this particular trade , and if he waits seven days before entrusting the goods to a third person on sale or return , that third person has the right to keep them as against him for 14 days , whereas the original owner has a right to the return of them within seven days from that date and I think that is clearly an act inconsistent with anything but his having adopted the transaction . ’
51 Well look at a miner I mean if he worked three days a week he might only get thirty shillings , in tho very very very seldom worked a full week .
52 And we might very well decide against it , but I think one day I would quite like
53 She knew it was right to go to London University because she hoped one day to teach in Africa , and they had a special course in education in relation to tropical areas .
54 Does n't earn much at all considering she works three days a week .
55 I was really really happy because we had nine days off school I was very relieved .
56 Well I , this this is something that 's always staggered me because he worked seven days a week , down the mine feeding horses you see , had to be fed , and watered seven days a week .
57 Before the 1991 visit she had not been in Northern Ireland since she spent two days in the province in August 1977 during her national jubilee tour .
58 The strange conversation came back to him while he scraped three days ' stubble from his face .
59 Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain .
60 He moans : ‘ It took three days to record one 30 minute Hot Shoe Show , whereas it takes one day to film a game show .
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