Example sentences of "for day and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The White House admitted it had known of the plot for days and had not discouraged the rebels . |
| 3 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 4 | Fighting may go on intermittently for days and the original owner does not tire easily . |
| 5 | I had food and water for days and Reggane was only twenty-five miles away , but I was terrified , with no control over my body . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The same effects may be achieved by having a massage but , unlike a massage , the feeling of lightness can last for days and we can eventually learn how to release tension for ourselves . |
| 8 | They travelled for days and on the third entered the Lauderdale valley . |
| 9 | It went on for days and thirst was a terrible thing , much worse than hunger ; so that , remembering his torture , how his lips had cracked , one rainy day , at random , on impulse , he had lapped a drink out of a puddle . |
| 10 | And for days and days , under the full moon of high expectation , Charlie laboured to wrench a fragment of beauty from his soul — in my view ( and to my relief ) , to no avail . |
| 11 | He remained unshaven for days and wore brown and rotting snap-on teeth . |
| 12 | ‘ He was a friendly guy and could stay up , like me , for days and nights on end . |
| 13 | Hammersmith coroner Dr John Burton said : ‘ The extraordinary thing is she did not die immediately but lay there for days and was virtually dead when she was found . |
| 14 | When he was a lad they used to tie him up in the cellar , starve him for days and read the Bible to him as food for his soul . |
| 15 | Some whales sing duets that may last for days and show regional dialects , while others can hear calls from hundreds of kilometres away . |
| 16 | You put these people on oxygen therapy for days and days and days , they come off and say can I have a cigarette ? |
| 17 | ‘ Do you realize we have n't kissed — not properly — for days and days ? ’ she said . |
| 18 | There was quite genuine concern you know , when blues parties went on for for days and days and days . |
| 19 | Er I mean they there were one or two that just went on literally for days and days and days and days . |
| 20 | Not for hours but for days and days . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ Do you really think that I 've waited for days and days for you to come back here , just to play bloody party games ? |
| 22 | It might last a minute , an hour or even go on for days and there was nothing Dexter could do to fight it . |
| 23 | He had barely slept for days and his white face was dominated by his broad , dark eyebrows , which were locked together in an expression suggesting both grief and incomprehension . |
| 24 | Rain fell for days and nights . |
| 25 | These wagers would be a talking point for days and in some cases bets on individuals would be made . |
| 26 | I want to make love to you for days and days , not to mention the nights , ’ he added with a wicked twinkle in his eyes . |
| 27 | They were er well they were different to us , they were n't going nowhere from here and er they had no best clothes only same clothes mostly for days and Sundays is n't it , same . |
| 28 | Gran had been muttering about storms for days and she liked her to stay close at these times . |
| 29 | The penguin who had said the word warm shook her head sadly , and tho' the young penguin pestered her for days and days she heard no more about it . |
| 30 | So Paul had a big blue felt marker for days and a red one for nights . |