Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had every other Sunday off , you see , but otherwise we worked and did n't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we could n't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on , you see , and er , and we were er perhaps I know one day we did n't finish until five o'clock in the morning |
| 2 | So I waited four days , watching the weather , praying that it would n't change and when the night arrived to fish again , and the conditions were identical to that wonderful night four moons ago , I felt like I was eight years old again on Christmas eve . |
| 3 | So I mean that day we had to tell a lot of lies , you know , like that . |
| 4 | And she did and so I think two days before Christmas Lady said to me , okay I shall go into Peter and choose whatever microwave you want . |
| 5 | So I suppose one day sooner or later we 'll have to do this disgusting thing in order for me not to be barren , but I do n't look forward to it . |
| 6 | So she said seven days but she was right because she said twenty eight days . |
| 7 | So we stayed five days in this backpackers ' , had a look round Auckland , visited MOTAT the Museum of Transport and Technology , opened a bank account , sold the Krugerrands which had been left to us by my Mum and which financed at least half the trip , and recovered from jetlag by sleeping only at night . |
| 8 | And mis the the constructors here they loaned us different equipment and we worked from Monday to Friday getting the things ready we worked all day Saturday doing the show , and we worked all day Sunday clearing the field ! |
| 9 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 10 | So you did n't get women going out , nothing like , not like they do these days . |
| 11 | Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’ |
| 12 | The court heard from Clive Murray , 44 , a gardener of Poolewe , that Ballantine , 51 , was seen leaning against a wall crying after the accident , and that later he spent three days in hospital . |
| 13 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 14 | The several sects of Dissenters are glad to be rid of Popery also ; but now they expect glorious days for themselves " . |
| 15 | and they 'll be here half an hour or three quarters of an hour , he smoked four cigarettes , now it takes all day and all night to get rid of them fumes of his cigarettes |
| 16 | Now he worked 7 days a week down below in the engine room stripped to the waist in constant temperatures of 113F and all for £10 a week . |
| 17 | they offered me two for a boat , right and they offered me one while I was there , then I got home and they offered me one that late that evening , job , erm working like that was a Thursday and they wanted me to start on the week Monday , I could n't do it as it happens I had to give my weeks notice here get out there that quick , so I fucking said , I said to myself well they 've first day , they 're gon na offer me a few more , so yeah they offered me a couple more but way from so , a bit unlucky I , I wished I 'd fucking taken it |
| 18 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 19 | " Now as soon as Rabscuttle got inside the King 's palace , he scurried off and went into one of the dark burrows ; and here he hid all day . |
| 20 | Latterly he wrote all day . |
| 21 | Sometimes I work six days a week , but usually seven . |
| 22 | Then she telephones one day and says she wants her stuff delivered bloody quick . |
| 23 | Then they have five days to sell the dog , make arrangements for the wife and kids and set off for Moscow 's Star City , ’ he said . |
| 24 | and we 'd left it , and not bothered and then he says one day I might as well sling this out it 's no good is it ? |
| 25 | There he spent two days alone before coming back to Normandy , arriving an hour before the Stevensons and Sarah . |
| 26 | There he died five days later . |
| 27 | Spending the night there he travelled next day to Stone , where refreshing himself he proceeded on to Halling , hoping he could find safety and refuge . |
| 28 | and yet you see these days they would give her treatment for that |
| 29 | Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him |