Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | resolve and spirit after a few days without a bath , a week without a change of clothes . |
| 2 | Once the message was on the wire , he had little else to do except sit back and wait for a few days . |
| 3 | Just wait for a few days , and you will see . |
| 4 | It was no different from the situation that most couples face in the early days of their marriage , when they discover they do n't like each other 's friends . |
| 5 | Chrysanthemums , poinsettia , corn , coffee and others flower during the shortening days of autumn and are known as short-day plants . |
| 6 | When , not long before his execution , he passed comment on the mass-murder of the Nazi camps , it was only to point out that there were problems in supply and control during the last days of the Third Reich . |
| 7 | Now you know in the old days , how I mean |
| 8 | What we used to do — you know in the olden days , the ladies used to use stays . |
| 9 | We 'd be living together like in the old days . |
| 10 | ‘ I remember in the early days there were only green fields and a few cottages and farmhouses . |
| 11 | If the symptoms disappear in a few days no more medicine is needed , but if the symptoms persist dosing continues as before to complete the cure §281 . |
| 12 | The flood story in Babylonia is also known from a Sumerian text telling virtually the same tale , though more briefly , and many Sumerian compositions refer to the distant days of the flood or before . |
| 13 | Marie Burch , who back in the old days jumped ship from the forerunner of Unix System Laboratories Inc to join the then-enemy Open Software Foundation as director , business area management , was one of those that lost their jobs in the Foundation 's recent reshuffle . |
| 14 | Marie Burch , who back in the old days jumped ship from the forerunner of Unix System Labs to join the then-enemy Open Software Foundation as director , business area management , was one of those cut in OSF 's recent reshuffle ( UX No 423 ) . |
| 15 | Er , I mean in the olden days , they used , they they usually the sent to the colonies or , sent into the army or or into religion , were n't they . |
| 16 | there , I mean in the older days they used to have a li little railway and they used t used more or less take all the sewage on to his land and there used to be couple little trucks where you tip over and they 'd be one down and one up , on and he , old he used to , used to be his , put on his land . |
| 17 | Susanna still comes to visit me sometimes , and we talk about the old days . |
| 18 | Well I think I must take issue with you when you talk about the old days . |
| 19 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
| 20 | Mrs Browning likes to have me with her now , no other person will do , and we talk of the old days and Miss Henrietta slipping off to Regent 's Park to walk with Mr Surtees Cook and the squeezes she loved to hold in Wimpole Street when her father was away . |
| 21 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
| 22 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 23 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 24 | I I feel in the early days the the social contract was n't particularly well known and I think our party initially felt that these things were better handled not though a proper set protocol in the Maastricht treaty . |
| 25 | ‘ You and Ratagan could take one out tomorrow , stay for a few days and have a look around at the western fiefs . |
| 26 | Aunt Margaret told her to dress herself in her nicest dress and Melanie put on a dress she had never worn in her uncle 's house , a best dress from the old days , dark green corduroy with lace at the neck . |
| 27 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
| 28 | Leave for a few days , then add just one or two hardy fish . |
| 29 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 30 | Listening to these ‘ old ’ recordings , most of which date from the early days of this century up to 1939 , one is conscious of a technical vocal mastery , musical understanding and intensity of communication that bridges the years . |