Example sentences of "for day " 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 | And she would stay off it for days on end . |
| 3 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 4 | Working dogs — even those dragging sledges across the snow for days on end — should not look like hat stands . |
| 5 | But nor does it matter ; ‘ our club ’ will have been seething with talk for days , and ‘ I ’ am bound to have heard about Stavrogin 's escapade . |
| 6 | The White House admitted it had known of the plot for days and had not discouraged the rebels . |
| 7 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 8 | When I first saw myself imitated , I was in shock for days . |
| 9 | ‘ I am fasting in the hope that others will take part , for an hour or for days , and that we will show our personal commitment to this country by limiting our material needs . ’ |
| 10 | So delicious were the nibbles and munchies in some showrooms that designers and hangers-on appeared to have starved themselves for days , before descending on the groaning showroom tables like a flock of unusually well-groomed vultures . |
| 11 | The stuff could have been under there for days , if not weeks . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ When I was a kid I saw that film , and I wanked for days on end . |
| 13 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 14 | Then he would be gone for days . |
| 15 | For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines , stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime , tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass . |
| 16 | The forecast is for the same dry hard weather for days . ’ |
| 17 | The country in the south had been really weird , with mushrooms of crumbling lava and wide flat rivers to cross , and it had rained for days , which had added to the general air of unreality as these features kept emerging from the mist . |
| 18 | For days after we are all victims to the angry itching bumps they leave all over us . |
| 19 | The ride across the lake gives us our best sledging for days , but the search for the ruin is hopeless , an endless toing and froing among trees and too-deep snow . |
| 20 | Mrs Laxmi Swami , who told the court her employers wrenched out two of her gold teeth and kept her without food for days , was awarded the damages , and costs estimated at £100,000 , against Princesses Faria and Simiya Al Sabah , sisters of the Emir of Kuwait . |
| 21 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 22 | The thought of shops shut for days brings on deep depression . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He ran his own business , and worked almost round the clock , so was away for days at a time . |
| 25 | Sometimes she would disappear for days . |
| 26 | In fact she hardly spoke for days . |
| 27 | Gina had once owned a wedding ring , but had chucked it at him in an early quarrel before disappearing for days . |
| 28 | Yet as our relationship deepened , you seemed to abstract yourself , and sometimes I would not see you for days on end . |
| 29 | The daft old bat probably wo n't know it 's gone for days . |
| 30 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |