Example sentences of "for some day " in BNC.

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1 And he had not been seen for some days .
2 The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches .
3 for some days after the flight , the body clock — and with it our daily rhythms — will tend to lag behind .
4 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 .
5 Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots .
6 For some days after the scandal broke , the press could find out nothing about him .
7 For some days the note lay untouched on the table .
8 The fight was broken up by the housemaster , whose ears had been open in anticipation for some days .
9 Bacteriological tests are of little value as the results may not be available for some days .
10 Ducting interiors : Avoid the use of water as much as possible as water penetrates joints and drips for some days after cleaning .
11 It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days .
12 For all that , I could not for some days quite bring myself to raise the matter again with Mr Farraday .
13 What you should recognize is that it is a warning sign that you have been doing too much , and that you need to get away from the patient , at least for short periods in the day , if not for some days or weeks .
14 This suggests that low prostacyclin production may be a consequence of arterial endothelial cell loss or damage and this requires restoration by normalisation of metabolism for some days before prostacyclin production returns to normal ( Harrison et al , 1980 ) .
15 I know she became somewhat lonely because her husband , although he was a very hard worker , would go off on a spree for some days at a time .
16 She would be in hospital for some days , possibly a week .
17 His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days .
18 Nothing would rouse him , and he continued in that state for some days , then grew violent if touched or spoken to .
19 For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall .
20 In February the Japanese made a great effort to surround a British and Indian force in Arakan , but the result was a resounding victory for our men , who had indeed been cut off for some days , but supplied by air .
21 We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready .
22 Phyllis enjoyed telling all that had happened for some days .
23 Chapple-Hyam has warned for some days that he is reluctant to risk Rodrigo de Triano , winner of the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas , on soft ground .
24 For some days Harriet kept her cubs within easy reach of the far bank of the river .
25 Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved .
26 After eluding their English pursuers for some days they encamped in Stanhope Park in Weardale on 20 July .
27 The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 ( see pa 90 of this issue ) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth , where she was based for some days for familiarisation trials .
28 If this is in the form of a loose box to which the cow can adapt for some days before calving , then there is inevitably less stress .
29 Mr Reynolds will be in hospital for some days prior to surgery and so there is no need for either the medical or nursing assessments to be made immediately .
30 She had slipped into doing no work for some days , would he look at it , please , as a kind of holiday — after all she had not had one since they had started on the course — she hoped she would be able to do better again next week .
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