Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 2 | A number of vessels were turned away in the following days . |
| 3 | The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive . |
| 4 | Some signs of their emergence can be seen even in the first days of the " new diplomacy " . |
| 5 | Now , although St Petersburg is full of some of the greatest treasures of the world , full of riches that have been handed down from the imperial days , there is very little about the tsar and his family at the time of the revolution . |
| 6 | This is filtered off after a few days , and the company is left with sheets of a solid , somewhat resembling uncooked pastry , which is then flavoured and textured . |
| 7 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 8 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 9 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 10 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 11 | Polar plants appear to have adapted positively to the long days , long nights , low light intensities and other special conditions ( Chapter 2 ) of their environment . |
| 12 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 13 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 14 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |
| 16 | Mammalian meiotic chromosome preparation has progressed considerably since the early days when a good squash preparation was the best that could be achieved . |
| 17 | Doubtless that was the trigger , but an operation of 24,000 men is not thrown together in a few days . |
| 18 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |
| 19 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 20 | If the war was n't actually forgotten , it was put aside for a few days in the district around Screehaugh . |
| 21 | Lothar replied that he simply had a skin complaint that could be cleared up in a few days . |
| 22 | The lowering of interest rates last year provided extra spending power for the family but , as Mr Ingram , 34 , pointed out , that will probably now just be kept back for the rainy days to come in 1994 . |
| 23 | To be sure , the last page of the last chapter had not been written at the death of the last apostle any more than it had at the death of the Messiah ; but , like him , the disciples enjoyed the characteristic gift of the end , the Holy Spirit whom the prophets knew would be poured out in the last days . |
| 24 | Then the funeral was held up for a few days , and we soon realised that the effect was indeed cosmetic and nothing more . |
| 25 | And that in itself was a form of antiquity you know , it it it is it went back to the old days you see . |
| 26 | Like Cadbury 's chocolate , the recipe and packaging of the Mills and Boon volume may not have altered much since its inception , but the methods of marketing and distribution have changed dramatically since the early days of the twopenny library . |