Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 2 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 3 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 4 | However , that discussion will have to wait for another day . |
| 5 | A new motor car was for many a luxury that would have to wait for another day . |
| 6 | I could n't stay for one day . ’ |
| 7 | Today they fly south to see a seventh-century Buddha statue and Buddhist temple before boarding a flight to Hong Kong , where the prince will stay for three days while the princess flies home . |
| 8 | ( iii ) Ensure doctor 's certificate is received for 7 days or more illness |
| 9 | Nelson was going to have to fumble through on his own — just as she was fumbling through each day , holding her breath hoping to see him , talk to Matthew … trying to understand this hunger inside her . |
| 10 | That 's all he ever thinks about these days . ’ |
| 11 | If Dalziel found out he 'd laugh for seven days . |
| 12 | Jones , 20 , suffered sickness and diarrhoea and did n't eat for five days . |
| 13 | Parts of a day are calculated as one day . |
| 14 | So they lived through another day — together in the same house , but more separately than ever before . |
| 15 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 16 | The first session was arranged for 4 days later . |
| 17 | Firstly amoxycillin , then cefuroxim and metronidazol were given for 14 days . |
| 18 | Because of some peroperative bile leakage , a subhepatic drain was positioned and antibiotics were given for five days . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This diet was consumed for six days . |
| 21 | As soon as a post 's routine was established it would be attacked : Sergeant James and two sappers lay for two days watching a post before deciding that breakfast-time was the right moment for such an attack . |
| 22 | I lay for several days in a small wooden room , convinced for some reason that I was on an ocean-going ship . |
| 23 | The prisoners were marched for thirty-four days , whilst carrying all our belongings , not to mention the blisters , from Kaisersteinbruch to Brunau . |
| 24 | Lithuania 's Supreme Council ( parliament ) on June 29 voted to suspend for 100 days its March 11 declaration of independence in order for negotiations to be held with the Soviet authorities on Lithuania 's future status . |
| 25 | Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir on Oct. 7 bitterly condemned the decision by the US Congress to delay US$10,000 million in loan guarantees for 120 days [ see p. 38452 ] saying the action struck at " the deepest foundations of Jewish and Zionist existence " . |
| 26 | The Russians watched all this with much amusement , and then sent an official protest note ( which the Foreign Office managed to lose for five days ) demanding an explanation . |
| 27 | Her body had remained hidden for several days . |
| 28 | BRIDE AND GROOM LIE HIDDEN FOR THREE DAYS |
| 29 | The calf lived for fifteen days . |
| 30 | Some lived for several days in this pitiful condition , their feet gnawed by dogs , until they died in agony . |