Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 2 | Simon Lawler , prosecuting asked for a 14 day adjournment so that the charges against the two officers could be finalised . |
| 3 | We asked for an extra day , and that was fine . |
| 4 | When Chuck crossed to the cook tent , carrying his rifle for the early start they planned for the final day , his father was already sitting at a table in the open , sipping a steaming mug of black coffee . |
| 5 | This combination of Infirmary League and Friendly Society was a good insurance against sickness but , of course , there were always those who never provided for the rainy day . |
| 6 | He headed for the Seventh Day Adventist College , New Bold in Berkshire . |
| 7 | As the agreement was announced Mount Pinatubo erupted for a 39th day , spurting clouds of steam and ash 14,000 metres into the air , and showering Manila — about 90 km south of the volcano — with quantities of ash and grit sufficient to cause the temporary closure of the city 's domestic and international airports . |
| 8 | Starving and tired I prepared for the next day . |
| 9 | And although England removed nightwatchman Morrison without fuss on the final morning , the draw looked odds-on as the tourists toiled for a third day in the field . |
| 10 | It rained for a few days after that shake of early March . |
| 11 | He had no strong views on fox hunting , he just went for a cheap day out . |
| 12 | Grandma lay for a few days drifting in and out of sleep , unaware of everything about her , until one afternoon when Julia and Carrie were sitting with her . |
| 13 | When this came to light we insisted for a few days that employees should seek permission to leave the company premises . |
| 14 | She burst into floods of horrible tears , and cried for a whole day . |
| 15 | He was so fed up that he put another penny to the one earned for a whole day 's labour and went to the pub where he drowned his sorrows in a pint . |
| 16 | The hearings ran for a hundred days during the summer and autumn of 1977 . |
| 17 | Whereas in Northumberland it rarely lasted for a whole day and almost never appeared on consecutive days , in London and Surrey it seemed to shine uninterrupted for weeks at a time . |
| 18 | MR Ladislav Adamec , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , threatened to quit last night , as hard bargaining continued for a second day with the opposition over the shape of the new government . |
| 19 | This vigorous phase continued for a few days , with the column of steam and ash climbing eleven kilometres high above the volcano and showering ash over points up to 480 kilometres distant . |
| 20 | We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel . |