Example sentences of "day [pers pn] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia . |
| 2 | Well , within about ten days I got a phone call from a solicitor er in Leeds telling me to let me ha let the bloke have the stuff . |
| 3 | Over a period of ten days I spent a lot of energy and seemed to come through with colours flying . |
| 4 | After three days I skipped a lesson and came to see you . |
| 5 | After three days I moved the decorations around and removed the divider . |
| 6 | After two or three days I bought the landlord a carafe of his own wine — the mean-mouthed varlet picked a costly , unsealed jar , not the usual watery vinegar he served most of his customers — and asked him about Selkirk . |
| 7 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 8 | Or ‘ In the old days you had no government but you collected taxes from passers-by : you must have had a treasury ? ’ |
| 9 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 10 | Er but as I say , I was n't very long at that so er when I came back to the , the motor trade , and bicycle trade , motor trade , cars in these days you get a variety of er all sorts of cars . |
| 11 | Every two days you have the dressings changed . |
| 12 | On all kinds of goods these days you see a manufacturer 's endorsement , ‘ Success only guaranteed if maker 's instructions adhered to . ’ |
| 13 | For the first time in days she felt a stirring of life inside her . |
| 14 | Some days she had a fever and spoke very fast . |
| 15 | The days she met the wind full on , something awful happened as soon as she got home . |
| 16 | Mrs Burnett seems to have taken marital and maternal duties lightly , and though she did not formally end the marriage until 1898 , from early days she made a practice of absenting herself from her family , often for months on end , travelling in North America and Europe , and spending long periods in England , where she moved in high society and had many literary friends , Henry James and Israel Zangwill [ qq.v. ] among them . |
| 17 | Over the next few days she made a point of visiting the two animals in their enclosure . |
| 18 | There were ceilidhs round the peat fires and on the fine days we explored the moors and sea cliffs . |
| 19 | ‘ In the early days we worried a bit about comeback , but over the years we 've just got more outrageous , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Yeah , erm when we 're up the farm when er , after a few days we put the feed in them they smell . |
| 21 | For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester . |
| 22 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
| 23 | They would sit outside wait in that days we had a seat out in the and even if was a seat for sitting outside they would sit on their own way or on a rock . |
| 24 | Over the next days we fine-tuned the scheme and made some useful improvements . |
| 25 | And in those days we required the money and er often , very often we had to do it to strengthen our wages a bit . |
| 26 | After five days we removed the packing around the splint . |
| 27 | We were warned to keep him out of the bedrooms , and for days we resisted the howls and barks and pneumatic drill impersonations . |
| 28 | Like all things these days we have a quality policy statement . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Now we 've got burners , in the Montgolfier days they lit a bonfire underneath it , so we 've got a lot more control over it now . |