Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] days " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She stood there beside him , acknowledging the marvellous presence of the terns , and as she did so the thought came to her that striped shirt , and pink tie , and Julia of the leather skirt , presumably passed them by five days a week without knowing that they did so . |
| 2 | They caught them within 5 days . |
| 3 | They told us within three days of your signing on . |
| 4 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 5 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 6 | She developed a complete mental block against her pregnancy , and concealed it until four days before she went into labour . |
| 7 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
| 8 | I loved you for thirteen days of my life , and did n't the rest of my life count for anything ? ’ |
| 9 | Judge Geoffrey Kilfoil ordered his arrest and jailed him for 14 days for contempt of court . |
| 10 | In that she exercised the power of appointment and appointed her husband ( provided that he survived her by 30 days ) to receive the income from her father 's estate . |
| 11 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 12 | Then I treated him for three days with a view of my back and my sulky face . |
| 13 | He had been discovered by the abbess 's steward , Richard of Bernstead , who , when he resisted attachment , seized and bound him , took him to Barking , imprisoned him for three days and afterwards delivered him to the forester and the verderer . |
| 14 | I did it in ten days , but in 1867 Loving took three months to do it . |
| 15 | Corman admitted , ‘ I did one film really more as a joke to see if I could do it ; filmed it in two days and a night . |
| 16 | The tug refloated the vessel , towed her to a sheltered anchorage where she was made fit for the tow to Hong Kong , and thereafter towed her for four days to docks in Hong Kong . |
| 17 | I 've imagined myself in situations like this , made up speeches in my head , speeches about truth and freedom and protection of sources , speeches I imagined delivering from the witness box just before the judge sentenced me to ninety days or six months or whatever for contempt of court , but I was kidding myself . |
| 18 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 19 | A Basel court on March 17 , 1989 , found a computer specialist guilty of passing economic information to the Soviet Union and sentenced him to 45 days in prison . |