Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] day and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admission was to be free but tickets were required for each day and demand was enormous from all over Britain and Ireland , from other European countries , and even from North America . |
| 2 | Although there are some irregularities , Smart seems to have had a fixed task allocated for each day and to have kept to it . |
| 3 | They determine the subjects for each day and the deployment of speakers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No one had ever seen a bride or groom walk to their wedding ; even the very poor found a car for that day and in the old days they had gone by trap or sidecar . |
| 6 | The Trades Union Congress has organised a lobby of Parliament for that day and the Labour leader , John Smith , is almost certain to press the Prime Minister on it in the Commons . |
| 7 | They carried on in this fashion for another day and a half , travelling at night to conserve energy . |
| 8 | This 18th-century sweet preserve was traditionally made for high days and holidays . |
| 9 | A desert , Menzies thought , a wilderness where you might just manage to survive for forty days and forty nights , especially if there was an angel at hand to minister to you . |
| 10 | Caesium-137 for instance can stay in the body of a child for 30-50 days and in that of an adult for 70-100 days . |
| 11 | Once a lady aid a daughter , remote cousins or friends of friends , came , and the girl left me with a yearning heart for some days and a curiosity for years like my curiosity about the lost childish books . |
| 12 | Nietzsche wrote : " When I heard of the fires in Paris , I felt annihilated for some days and was overwhelmed by fears and doubts ; the whole academic ( wissenschaftlich ) , philosophical , artistic world seemed an absurdity , if a single day could wipe out the most glorious works of art , even whole periods of art ; I clung with earnest conviction to the metaphysical value of art , which can not exist for the sake of poor human beings , but has higher missions to fulfil . " |
| 13 | The weather had been fine for some days and the mood was right . |
| 14 | So Adam slipped out of Castell Coch at dusk , and himself carried the word to Owen in his camp in the woods overlooking Cegidfa ; and a beggar who had hung about the gates for some days and been fed from the kitchens went after him every step of the way . |
| 15 | And thank you for this day and make me grateful for what I 've got . |
| 16 | So we and that 's that really is er is too higher proportion for this day and age , particularly with all the publicity that 's being put out . |
| 17 | Plan for shorter days and lower temperatures , with the west wetter than the rest — but there 's always hope for an Indian Summer . |
| 18 | Mrs Megan Quaile , 79 , who tripped and fractured her hip , came home after eight days and is ‘ feeling fine ’ . |
| 19 | After 12 days and nights of fierce fighting , the Germans and Italians were finally routed , leaving 20,000 dead . |
| 20 | The bond can be exchanged after 45 days and until November 30 1993 , into 1.175 IBM Corp shares — the first time in recent history that IBM has made an acquisition for shares . |
| 21 | After 10 days and three predictable victories they were promoted , thanks to Woking dropping a point . |
| 22 | After 10 days and three predictable victories they were promoted , thanks to Woking dropping a point . |
| 23 | My father described to me how the Guides had arrived and gone straight into action after marching day and night from the Punjab ; how Nicholson had been killed leading the troops as they stormed the ramparts of Delhi . |
| 24 | I chickened out after three days and put the lights back on . |
| 25 | There 's a Danish proverb , you know , that states that fish and guests smell after three days and er we all know the visits which have begun so successfully from friends and relatives , it need n't be Christmas , it could be at any time of the year , which are often ruined by people lingering on well past their sell-by date . |
| 26 | Sutures are usually removed in the groin after 5 days and in the leg at 7 days . |
| 27 | After long days and nights alone I would wake in the mornings wondering if this new day would bring a new poem from you , a new smile as you ran dancing towards me on your boxer 's turned-in toes . |
| 28 | After more days and nights than he cared to remember , he was perched on a ledge , perhaps halfway up , unable to move up or down . |
| 29 | AFTER four days of sparring , Eric Vanderaerden unleashed his Sunday punch to knock out the fading hopes of Sean Kelly , and the whole of Ireland , in the Nissan Classic , which finished in Dublin yesterday after five days and 925km . |
| 30 | It comes with prostration , after several days and is most often found in patients of poor vitality , rather broken down weak constitutions who are subject to catarrhal illnesses ; most often needed in the elderly and in young infants . |