Example sentences of "they [prep] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days |
| 2 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |
| 3 | I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days . |
| 4 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |
| 5 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 6 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 7 | TIP : Test unknown materials by soaking them for several days . |
| 8 | If you 've soaked the joints , leave them for several days to dry off completely . |
| 9 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
| 10 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 11 | They 'd found them after five days , with Sandy 's parents hammering at Ted every minute of the time . |
| 12 | She had tried them after two days . |
| 13 | They caught them within 5 days . |
| 14 | If 14 days be a reasonable length of time in such a contract in this particular trade , and if he waits seven days before entrusting the goods to a third person on sale or return , that third person has the right to keep them as against him for 14 days , whereas the original owner has a right to the return of them within seven days from that date and I think that is clearly an act inconsistent with anything but his having adopted the transaction . ’ |
| 15 | Thus instead of writing If the Seller shall have given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection , and the Buyer shall fail to collect them within seven days from service of such notice , the Seller shall be entitled to make arrangements for the storage of the goods and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage the drafter could write If after the Seller has given the Buyer notice that the goods are ready for collection , the Buyer fails to collect the goods within seven days , the Seller may make arrangements for the storage of the goods and the Buyer shall reimburse the Seller all costs and charges incurred as a result of such storage . |
| 16 | The contract may impose a time limit for notification of claims : The Buyer will inspect the goods as soon after delivery as is reasonably practicable and will notify the seller of any shortages , defects in the goods or any other complaint in respect of them within three days from delivery . |
| 17 | They ‘ trapline ’ , moving directly from one food site to the next , apparently remembering them from previous days , and are fast fliers , visiting plants producing ( few ) flowers over long periods . |
| 18 | Let me see your teeth , you have n't cleaned them in two days |
| 19 | you can put them in two days before but you need a special licence , which is seventy eight pounds , it 's a bit of useless information really |
| 20 | ‘ Charles and Diana — It 's Really Over ’ ran the headline in the daily Parisienne , above photographs showing them in happier days . |
| 21 | Yeah well they did n't have them in these days Ann . |
| 22 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 23 | The quality of the staff was impressive , and many of them in those days were among the most adventurous of professionals in introducing new teaching methods and new curricula . |
| 24 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 25 | You could n't leave them in those days because there was no social security . |
| 26 | You see the idea , was if you had lights in your house and there was just a kink , or chink , they used to call them in those days , they could be spotted from the air , so th You either had wooden shutters at your window , or blackout curtaining . |
| 27 | There were , there was , there was n't any runway it was just a grass airfield as there was a lot of them in those days erm this , this is why they , they could n't get any aircraft of any size in there you see , this is why some of them used to overshoot if they got twin engines before the war erm |
| 28 | ‘ You 've got to be big to knock them over these days in international rugby . |
| 29 | He led a march of several hundred miners and their supporters through Barnsley in South Yorkshire , and urged other trade unionists to join them on other days of action to defend coal , as well as jobs in other industries . |
| 30 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |