Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Every year the Bārakotes brought their buffaloes north , walking for ten days , because their own pastures were overgrazed and arid . |
| 4 | A surgeon banned from driving for 14 days and fined £105 for speeding at 104mph on his way to hospital to operate is to appeal to the Crown Court . |
| 5 | Harris , who also picked up a speeding conviction last year , was disqualified from driving for 21 days and fined £100 . |
| 6 | The only disappointment was that , at nine o'clock , the advantage gained by climbing for two days was lost in minutes , like the slow , laborious winding of a stiff spring which snaps and releases its energy in an instant . |
| 7 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 8 | I had been quite spoilt by now and anyway I had had my fill of walking alongside modern day roads , so I took the bus to Lochranza . |
| 9 | The proper officer , under his devolved powers , determines the time for payment , using means guidelines provided , which determination the plaintiff or the defendant is entitled to seek reconsideration by applying within 14 days on notice giving reasons ( Ord 9 , r 3(4) ; the proceedings then having been transferred , if necessary , to defendant 's home court and date , giving not less than eight days ' notice to each plaintiff and defendant , is fixed before the district judge . |
| 10 | The eight-point accord followed 18 months of UN-sponsored peace talks , ending in 10 days of intensive negotiation in New York . |
| 11 | Note that male mortality is shown as % dying in 10 days whereas the other groups are shown as % dying in 20 days ; hence the differences in mortality were even more pronounced than depicted . |
| 12 | Note that male mortality is shown as % dying in 10 days whereas the other groups are shown as % dying in 20 days ; hence the differences in mortality were even more pronounced than depicted . |
| 13 | I 'm not sure , the grocer 's shop erm , now er they did credit trading in those days and most people took the credit . |
| 14 | Julie Rattray from Glasgow showed slides of an Alpine tour , jumping , as it were , from col to col and back again ; over 50,000m. of climbing in 28 days , a remarkable feat . |
| 15 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
| 16 | Many of the gifts in the catalogue are also available from the National Trust property shops , some of which are opening on selected days for Christmas shopping ( see back of the catalogue for details ) . |
| 17 | They would continue to open on Mondays , Fridays and Saturdays but discussions about opening on another day probably Thursday had started . |
| 18 | Opening the case for the prosecution , the Council 's lawyer , Mr Neil Calver told magistrates that by trading on that day , B & Q had contravened the Shops Act . |
| 19 | On Aug. 18 , after deliberating for 10 days , a New York City jury convicted three Harlem youths of raping and brutalizing a white female jogger in New York 's Central Park . |
| 20 | But this peedie fairy anyway , it was wandering about one day very disconsolate at the prospect and found a sparrow with a broken wing . |
| 21 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 22 | START SAVING WITHIN 14 DAYS OF ORDER |
| 23 | Money Market Loans are available for larger businesses , for fixed terms ranging from one day to a year ( usually at the shorter end of that range ) . |
| 24 | Offers a variety of courses , at management and other levels , ranging from one day to ten half-days . |
| 25 | There was a widely variable time from transplantation to the appearance of HBV markers in liver or serum , ranging from 6–331 days . |
| 26 | Each offers a different mixture , ranging from ambitious day cruising , through gentle local pottering to sizzling high speed catamaran sailing . |
| 27 | Telephone reservations must be confirmed in writing within five days — the accommodation establishment may automatically cancel the reservation on the sixth day if a written booking is not received . |
| 28 | If the complaint can not be resolved there and then , complete one of our Client Liaison Forms in resort and then you must notify us in writing within 60 days of the date you returned from holiday . |
| 29 | C.6.2 if so required by the Vendor in writing within 60 days following it being notified , retain solicitors chosen by the Vendor to proceed on behalf of the Purchaser in accordance with the instructions of the Vendor and give to such solicitors all and every assistance and information as they may require . |
| 30 | Verbal notification must be confirmed in writing within SEVEN DAYS . |