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Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] day " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ You 've got all my money and I 've had no dinner meself for three days , ’ I said .
2	I have eaten nothing for five days .
3	They would be with me for four days in July .
4	The family could quite well manage without me for two days .
5	I 'd had enough middle-aged men slobbering all over me for one day .
6	Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days .
7	Nobody came to see me for three days .
8	if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical
9	‘ They 've asked me for ten days , ’ Blanche said .
10	Yeah , there 's nothing about these days is there ?
11	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
12	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 .
13	I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days .
14	And you visit them for there was one time we visit them for fourteen day daily but I do n't think they do it now .
15	Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing .
16	She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days .
17	But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’
18	And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next .
19	TIP : Test unknown materials by soaking them for several days .
20	If you 've soaked the joints , leave them for several days to dry off completely .
21	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 .
22	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 .
23	They 'd found them after five days , with Sandy 's parents hammering at Ted every minute of the time .
24	She had tried them after two days .
25	Like when you 're locked in a room with someone for five days and you wan na kill them after a while .
26	It should be remembered that a serving sergeant pilot ( as we called ourselves in those days ) had little clue about the policy that emerged from Arthur Marshall ( Air Ministry ) when the plans for one White Paper were never implemented before another White Paper overtook it .
27	If everyone can manage this we will all be able to go on quietly shaving our heads , lighting our candles , starving ourselves on particular days of the year — and no-one will mind or probably even notice .
28	When I look back the me of those days bears no relation at all to the me now .
29	Most of the book is arranged in the form of a week of prayer in which for each day there is an order of Adoration , Confession of Sin , a Prayer for Grace , a Confession of Faith and an Intercession .
30	Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain .