Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a day [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diane locked herself in her bedroom and would n't come down for a day because she was afraid of her father 's anger . |
| 2 | Ask if you can come down for a day or two . |
| 3 | ‘ Last Tuesday Nellie , my wife , had to go to hospital and they kept her in for a day and a night for eye tests . |
| 4 | ‘ So we 're bunking off for a day or two . |
| 5 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 6 | Do come up for a day or so if there is the remotest possible chance . |
| 7 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 8 | The CO took his time as if savouring a titbit of information certain to delight its recipient , ‘ As you know , camp breaks up in a day or two . ’ |
| 9 | They 'll probably pick him up in a day or two . |
| 10 | A year later , during the unusually hot summer of 1990 , he developed a minor break-out which lavender cleared up within a day or two . |
| 11 | By such primitive methods , the volume of gas necessary to carry one or two people aloft , could take up to a day and a half to produce . |
| 12 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
| 13 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
| 14 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 15 | The only thing that stuck out in a day that seemed to have been a hundred hours of confusion was that nun . |
| 16 | I 'll be out in a day or so . |
| 17 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 18 | But without the help of clock or compass , the terns will arrive back within a day or two of the same date each year , around 6th May . |
| 19 | If we were going there and back in a day but it would n't really be worth it to go to the fair . |
| 20 | During the previous three years , Crawford had written hundreds of letters to producers and directors in his search for work , but it was his love of cycling — he sometimes rode from South London to Brighton and back in a day that landed him his first work in repertory theatre . |
| 21 | ‘ He was dumped on me by your friend when he vanished , promising , of course , to be back in a day or two . ’ |
| 22 | Back in a day or two ! ’ the old woman croaked . |
| 23 | I do n't suppose I 'll see you again , because Doctor Rice will be back in a day or two . |