Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he had managed to crawl on to the bed , dragging such scarves as he could find to shield his eyes , for the curtains were only flimsy cotton of a summer rented house , all annoyance , all regret for the wasted day , all intentions , all straining for activity , was gone , absorbed into the panic that connected — as if there was a piston rod — his throbbing head , the lights crossing behind his eyeballs and his churning stomach . |
| 2 | resolve and spirit after a few days without a bath , a week without a change of clothes . |
| 3 | Both were winter occupations and helped keep you warm on a cold day . |
| 4 | The arrivals and departures list for the next day should be typed and copies distributed to all departments . |
| 5 | Once the message was on the wire , he had little else to do except sit back and wait for a few days . |
| 6 | Just wait for a few days , and you will see . |
| 7 | A few drops of liquifry should be added shortly after the eggs hatch to start an infusoria bloom in the tank ; alternatively you can culture this in a separate container and feed it to the fry from the 5th day . |
| 8 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
| 9 | I usually wait until the next day when the painting is thoroughly dry , when it will accept the light colour perfectly . |
| 10 | She did n't have the guts to say wait until the next day , when she saw me ring me up . |
| 11 | Welcome to a new day . |
| 12 | Welcome to the first day of Henley Royal Regatta on the banks of the Thames . |
| 13 | She was not at all the uppity , self-important celebrity I read about the next day . |
| 14 | It was no different from the situation that most couples face in the early days of their marriage , when they discover they do n't like each other 's friends . |
| 15 | This is something which they manage on the first day , and then never repeat . |
| 16 | When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views . |
| 17 | All subject committees meet on the same day . |
| 18 | You must take for twenty-one days religiously , stop for seven , always begin on the same day of the week , got it ? |
| 19 | Supermarkets and stores which open on the seventh day are doing a roaring trade . |
| 20 | That 's reach a common understanding which reflects the realities of a relationship we enjoy at the present day so that we can all get on with the task of serving our members and forming a Labour government . |
| 21 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 22 | This brings us again to the vital question of where sediments actually accumulate at the present day . |
| 23 | Chrysanthemums , poinsettia , corn , coffee and others flower during the shortening days of autumn and are known as short-day plants . |
| 24 | When , not long before his execution , he passed comment on the mass-murder of the Nazi camps , it was only to point out that there were problems in supply and control during the last days of the Third Reich . |
| 25 | HILARY GILES of Dunstable and her husband Charles are all set for a super day out at York today , as guests of the Daily Mirror . |
| 26 | When life brings them into touch again twenty years later , and they are hopelessly in love , a climactic scene takes place in an inferior tea-shop which they visit during a furtive day together in London . |
| 27 | Now you know in the old days , how I mean |
| 28 | What we used to do — you know in the olden days , the ladies used to use stays . |
| 29 | We 'd be living together like in the old days . |
| 30 | ‘ I remember in the early days there were only green fields and a few cottages and farmhouses . |