Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] day [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll get back from work and one of our boys is just getting up , or another day they 'll all be just sat there , and you 'll find all the bread 's gone . |
| 2 | Well , business can always be better , but in the last two or three days we 've really become quite excited about things . |
| 3 | Thus a certain brinkmanship has gone on , with a hospital discharging an elderly person home , ostensibly on trial and then refusing to re-admit when in two or three days it is clear the person can not cope . |
| 4 | Over two or three days it suddenly became malign enough to seem a reflection of Bella 's casual slaughter of their lives , and at last he rose in revolt . |
| 5 | The worst thing about the job is dealing with bureaucracy while the best thing is the two or three days I spend each week out on the hill getting my hands dirty , visiting worksites and clients . |
| 6 | During the next two or three days I noticed one of the remaining young fish was being chased around the tank by an older Harlequin , which had been in the aquarium for a few years . |
| 7 | After two or three days I started picking up . |
| 8 | For two or three days I stayed there in a commercial travellers ’ hotel . |
| 9 | After two or three days I bought the landlord a carafe of his own wine — the mean-mouthed varlet picked a costly , unsealed jar , not the usual watery vinegar he served most of his customers — and asked him about Selkirk . |
| 10 | Since cultures are unlikely to be maintained for more than 4 or 5 days they can generally be kept free of bacterial contamination by conducting all manipulations in sterile media with flame-pulled glass mouth pipettes under dissecting microscopes in a dust-free area , for example surrounded by Perspex dust covers . |
| 11 | For about ten or twelve days we sailed on south , down the coast of Africa . |
| 12 | If it dries up for three or four days it 's st dries up for three or four days and Dennis has to stop the minute he picks it up it 's just blown away . |
| 13 | For one or two days he sat down with me , and I tried to teach him . |
| 14 | For in a day or two days you 'd just be returning the weary road for the funeral mass . ’ |
| 15 | And that day we was all over Jenny 's . |
| 16 | Obviously I was learning new things all the time and each day we built on what we had learned the day before . |
| 17 | Each day there was a new sight and each day I was pushing the ability of these words to cope with my thoughts . |
| 18 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
| 19 | For three days I went into the library at the Hall hoping to find Laura there and each day I was disappointed . |
| 20 | Twice daily , the tide comes in , and each day it will be approximately 50 minutes later than the previous day . |
| 21 | There were many kinds and each day he seemed to notice more . |
| 22 | But she remained amiable no matter how much she was provoked , and each day she gained a little more confidence . |
| 23 | While he was away was the longest fifteen months and eight days I ever spent . |
| 24 | And some day we all have to find out the difference between romance and real life . |
| 25 | It 's yours , whether we speed or no , and some day you may need it . ’ |
| 26 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 27 | Yeah , and some days you need to . |
| 28 | The only trouble is when you 're doing your administration and some days you know y you may have to really get stuck in |
| 29 | Cos that was St Petersberg catholic ladies guild or something and another day it was something like I B M or whatever you know . |
| 30 | ‘ And another day I bought a hip bath in a junk shop talk about Edwardian house parties … = ’ Mervyn rambled on , but Ianthe was hardly conscious of what he was saying beyond feeling that he did n't seem to expect an answer . |