Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were meant to coincide so that travellers would have a smooth connection , but they rarely did , and the tea-houses and cheap hotels of Half a were swollen with travellers who invariably had to wait for days . |
| 2 | And sometimes if there was just a few of the men maybe two men in the camp , they would come and help with even fencing or or erm build up a dyke or something like that Even drain they would stay for days if they wanted draining the fields , mm it was that . |
| 3 | The rain had not stopped for days on end . |
| 4 | Perhaps because she had not previously been living in London , Moira observed precisely what it was that dozens of well-bred young ladies were enthusing over ; the long pin-tucked nightdresses , which no one else was making , to wear as day or evening dresses . |
| 5 | They were similarly arranged for day and night travelling and were all vestibuled together . |
| 6 | The disclosure by the state and defence departments came as United Nations officials in Sarajevo announced that Serb militiamen had allowed a ten-truck UN relief convoy , halted for days at a checkpoint in eastern Bosnia , to continue towards the encircled town of Gorazde . |
| 7 | United Nations officials in Sarajevo said Serb militiamen had allowed a ten-truck UN relief convoy , halted for days at a checkpoint in eastern Bosnia , to continue towards the encircled town of Gorazde . |
| 8 | Yeah I did that at school we had to stay in most break times as a child cos I could n't remember , and I , I know that my mum bought me a books so I used to sit for days and days , then my mum going over and then my nan going over and I could n't remember if I wanted |
| 9 | Then I 'd disappear for days and make everyone go crazy with worry while I whooped it up down the nearest alley with some ear-tom tom . |
| 10 | Sometimes she would disappear for days . |
| 11 | It also offers a limited number of places for the elderly in the community to attend as day clients . |
| 12 | She woke early on the morning of July 29 , 1981 which is not surprising as her room overlooked the Mall where the singing , chattering crowds had been gathering for days . |
| 13 | The catarrhal state may be lower down in the trachea which becomes extremely sore from much coughing for days and weeks , again is worse ( < ) morning and evening , a rattling , wheezing , barking cough in an oversensitive , chilly patient . |
| 14 | They made their own amusements , and she learnt to knit and they had long winter nights round the fire o and they used to go She used to call it , we used to go after day set , that she called evening . |
| 15 | An attempt was made to determine if fluid transport varied between days 6 and 9 . |
| 16 | Sleep for days . |
| 17 | A simulated conversion of N 2 O 5 to HNO 3 on background aerosols , however , shows column nitric acid to increase between days 55 and 75 in autumn by about 3.0x10 15 molecule cm -2 ( ref. 9 ) . |
| 18 | This stands for Days ' Sales Outstanding . |
| 19 | ‘ I was bruised for days afterwards , ’ said Fribble , ‘ but I did n't say anything , because it would n't have been courteous . |
| 20 | Although he had been immersed for days in Ridley 's exotic tale , searching out the coiling roots of Coleridge 's Kubla Khan , and although he knew intellectually that so many of these stories and poems were impregnated with an unconscious symbolism which later adventures into the human psyche were to make so much more explicit , he was temperamentally incapable of seeing the hidden meaning within this laborious passing from the ‘ dungeon of lust ’ into the pellucidly clear air of the mountains of Tasgi where voices shouted in exultation . |
| 21 | Curtailment cover should be included to compensate for days lost if you have to cut short your holiday and return early because of illness or death in the family . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a very worthwhile event , ’ she said , ‘ but I must admit that I was aching for days afterwards ! ’ |
| 23 | He 'd been driving for days , he 'd forgotten how many , and he was tired of the white lines painted down the middle of the highway , he was tired to the centre of his bones . |
| 24 | Although the walking programme and the diet routine are organised through Day 1 to 30 , we recommend that you begin the programme on a Monday , as the aerobic walking gradually builds up throughout the week , with more aerobic walking on weekends . |
| 25 | Finally there will be a careful check on the ability of fishermen applying for day tickets , and unless they are known as serious carp anglers they will not get the slightest chance of a day on the lake . |
| 26 | This is fine — it means that the newcomers can act from day one . |
| 27 | And more disturbingly , bosses can act within days of discovering a relationship . |
| 28 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 29 | A reply from the Ministry is expected within days , and all the signs are that it will be positive . |
| 30 | An announcement by the Minister is expected within days . |