Example sentences of "three days [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In three days they covered 400 miles . |
| 2 | For three days they parleyed ; Rawn demanding their surrender and the Nez Perce asking to be allowed into Montana in peace . |
| 3 | Their emergency rations ran out and for three days they had just water . |
| 4 | They attempted to take over the city ; for three days they fought the Viet Minh , and in the cross-fire Lieutenant-Colonel Dewey of OSS was shot dead . |
| 5 | For three days they will act out their feelings , confront their emotions , and generally ‘ bond ’ with each other . |
| 6 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 7 | I think after three days they 've er worn out their welcome . |
| 8 | In the following three days they had to get through two complete run-throughs , two technical rehearsals , and one dress rehearsal . |
| 9 | For many gardeners , the Spring Show is an opportunity to buy the bedding plants that bring much needed early summer colour to the borders.For the nurserymen , it 's a great start to the season.Over the three days they expect to sell plants worth three quarters of a million pounds . |
| 10 | I am fairly positive that after about three days we were ordered off the plane , handed a small brush and told to clean the toilets at Karachi airport . |
| 11 | Over the next three days we 'll be looking at what more tax would mean … |
| 12 | For the first three days we were locked in the classrooms and never saw the light of day . ’ |
| 13 | Well , business can always be better , but in the last two or three days we 've really become quite excited about things . |
| 14 | Thus a certain brinkmanship has gone on , with a hospital discharging an elderly person home , ostensibly on trial and then refusing to re-admit when in two or three days it is clear the person can not cope . |
| 15 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
| 16 | Over two or three days it suddenly became malign enough to seem a reflection of Bella 's casual slaughter of their lives , and at last he rose in revolt . |
| 17 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 18 | Within three days he and Mr Primakov had written the letter to the G7 : that is , the article for Mr Smick 's magazine . |
| 19 | It was a great comfort to have him here , but in three days he went back to San Francisco . |
| 20 | ‘ Three days he has been up there , ’ said Beach . |
| 21 | Anxious not to offend the tsar further , he hesitated ; after three days he gave way , went to Philippopolis and the union of the southern and northern Bulgars was proclaimed . |
| 22 | Over the first three days he was watched increasingly closely , as it appeared that he may have been sleeping during the early evening when no recordings were being made , and during the nights his wife seemed to be doing her best to keep him awake . |
| 23 | Within three days he felt that he had been born again . |
| 24 | So he rowed out to sea in his little boat , and for three days he neither ate nor fished , but let the tides carry him where they would . |
| 25 | At the end of three days he went to his grandfather , and said , " Grandfather , I am going to climb the mountain and find a place where I can get some peace and quiet . |
| 26 | Melissa was about to retort that as she had only known Bonard for three days he could hardly be described as a friend of hers , when a surprised , ‘ Well , what do you know ? ’ from Jack made them both glance round . |
| 27 | After three days he had limped home , crippled by blisters . |
| 28 | He took lots of notes and after three days he said , ‘ Raymond , I want to give you a check . |
| 29 | Again at Easter he is arguing over his fee for attending the Archbishop at Canterbury and threatens that unless he is payed the sum of twenty shillings a day for three days he would never again obey the Archbishop 's mandate . |
| 30 | The worst thing about the job is dealing with bureaucracy while the best thing is the two or three days I spend each week out on the hill getting my hands dirty , visiting worksites and clients . |