Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 2 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 3 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 4 | Jock Lewes came in a few days later with a different tale to tell . |
| 5 | Jonquil came in every few days . |
| 6 | UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont reiterated on the same day that the UK government would take whatever action was necessary to maintain the existing DM2.95 central parity of the pound . |
| 7 | He denounced the arrests on Aug. 14 of opposition leaders , which , he noted , came on the same day as the release of Sgt. Venançio Mikó Obiang , who was convicted in July 1983 of participating in an attempted coup the previous May [ see pp. 32299-300 ] . |
| 8 | The news came on the same day that the car makers Rover announced another year of losses . |
| 9 | The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub . |
| 10 | It rained for a few days after that shake of early March . |
| 11 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 12 | Gen. Kadijevic stated on the same day that " Yugoslavia as it existed until now has ceased to be " and that " the army is therefore taking certain decisions into its own hands " . |
| 13 | But that was the shock awaiting staff at Knowle infants school , Solihull , yesterday when nine new pairs of three , four and five-year-olds arrived on the same day to join one couple of twins already there . |
| 14 | This course began with an all day Saturday event looking at learning styles and modes of behaviour using a variety of psychometric tests . |
| 15 | Constitutional changes were first announced on April 28 at the extraordinary congress of the ruling National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( MRND ) which began on the same day . |
| 16 | It had been held up because of the freezing of assistance to the Soviet Union ( also released on the same day — see p. 38105 ) . |
| 17 | One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care , but recovered in a few days . |
| 18 | This is total rubbish , as if the body is to be buried or cremated within a few days after death , no such risk exists . |
| 19 | Mrs Rumney rang within a few days . |
| 20 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 21 | Mountaineering Council of Scotland president Bob Reid described the news , which broke on the same day as the much criticised Cairngorms Working Party consultation paper was launched , as part of ‘ a double whammy for the Cairngorms ’ . |
| 22 | My coming summer holiday started on the same day as my cousin 's , and I was much looking forward to it . |
| 23 | Nicaragua retaliated on Dec. 30 by ordering 20 US diplomats to leave the country forthwith , and US President George Bush admitted on the same day that the action was a " screw-up " . |
| 24 | Grandma lay for a few days drifting in and out of sleep , unaware of everything about her , until one afternoon when Julia and Carrie were sitting with her . |
| 25 | When this came to light we insisted for a few days that employees should seek permission to leave the company premises . |
| 26 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 27 | When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August , and Miss Ellen another heart attack , both old ladies died within a few days of each other . |
| 28 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
| 29 | Ridge of the Junior School died on the same day whilst posting a letter on Woodsmoor Lane . |
| 30 | Another person died on the same day and at least eight people were hospitalized with bullet wounds after police had moved in to smash barricades erected by demonstrators at Pec . |