Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it come from , I , I was n't expecting it to come back , it come through eight days , . |
| 2 | And and like the dry store , erm , with all , it 's got like the rice in it , the custard in it , all those sorts of things , I mean , you know , he might order that stuff once a week , rather than having it come in three days a week . |
| 3 | And when it 's pressed out of the grapes , the juice comes out , they allow it to stand for five days and then they put it into bottles . |
| 4 | It burned for three days . |
| 5 | It rained for four days . |
| 6 | ‘ Last time I was here it rained for forty days . |
| 7 | It rained for three days . |
| 8 | It was like a rubbish dump , and yet there 's good old erm , grounds man , as soon as the had gone , they were down there , there was half a dozen of them and they got it cleaned in two days . |
| 9 | But they say you must leave it running for two days . |
| 10 | It snowed for three days without stopping , great cotton wool flakes , falling from a dark sky and swirling so thickly and blindingly that Mr Evans actually said the children need not use the privy in the yard in the daytime but could go up to the bathroom whenever they needed to . |
| 11 | ‘ They left his body lying where it fell for three days , as a warning to the other prisoners . |
| 12 | It took about nine days for them completely to stop eating green eggs , but they continued to enjoy the ordinary white egg . |
| 13 | It continued for three days . |
| 14 | Usually held in October , it lasted for eight days and met outside the North Gate near the sloe tree which gave it its name of Sloe Fair ; discipline and disputes were enforced by a ‘ pie-powder ’ ( dusty feet ) court which sorted out the inevitable problems . |
| 15 | Whatever arrives , but you just do n't know what your going to get , no , it 's flown in er trying to think it comes in four days a week by air , it 's selling at a good price but you do n't know what your going to get and I mean , you could n't , you could n't risk using it somewhere like this , so , it , the chances of selling it . |