Example sentences of "[verb] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel Karafistan , now 18 , who co-founded the Bare Essentials Youth Theatre , will know soon whether she has won a day at the Olivier theatre , working with actors and directors including Anthony Hopkins , Ian McKellen and Richard Eyre , as part of the Lloyds Bank Theatre Challenge . |
| 2 | He has won a day for himself and a companion at Doncaster Races on March 19 the opening meeting of the Flat by providing the first correct entry opened in our recent racing competition . |
| 3 | I had n't thought about it before then , and I said well I would need a day or two to think about it . |
| 4 | Do you need a day like this specifically to raise funds . |
| 5 | Raymond , her husband , Bernard 's father , would need a days notice of her absence . |
| 6 | The cloudless sky promised a day for haymaking , or a day for lovers to stroll through heavy-leafed woods to rest beside the green cool of a streambank . |
| 7 | The nurses made approximately 41 visits a day to clients with leg ulcers . |
| 8 | They used to come a day or two beforehand , you see , so they could be settled down and then race . |
| 9 | Sometimes , it may be wise to arrange for the mortgage advance to come a day or two before completion is scheduled . |
| 10 | The only difficulty with arranging for the mortgage advance to come a day or two early is that interest will be charged to the client-borrower a day or two before completion is actually scheduled . |
| 11 | In the wintertime , schedules to France may include a day stop , whereas at peak periods a split duty might comprise both morning and afternoon round-trips to Dinard from Guernsey , for example . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) The period of 48 hours referred to in subsection ( 2 ) above shall not include a day which is a Sunday , Christmas Day , New Year 's Day , Good Friday , a bank holiday , or a public holiday , or a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning . |
| 13 | The service team that generates the most leads for job work in the branch will win a day out in the Worcester countryside paintballing [ apparently the losers go twice ! ] . |
| 14 | Both men , however , had to suffer a day of ups and downs — including two engine failures in the morning on their new ‘ high-tech ’ MP4/7A race cars — before they found the pace in the afternoon . |
| 15 | It gave the Celts delightful chieftains , such as Lovernius who entertained hugely : " And when at length he fixed a day for the ending of the feast , a Celtic poet who arrived too late met Lovernius and composed a song magnifying his greatness and lamenting his own late arrival . |
| 16 | When you want a day off tell me , I 'll write you a note . ’ |
| 17 | She wants a day in bed , she , breakfast in bed today . |
| 18 | Drink-driver caught a day after binge |
| 19 | For them Friday the 13th had come a day early . |
| 20 | Similarly , one of our members who had some experience with social services is in the process of opening a Day Care Centre for the housebound . |
| 21 | The appeal , supported by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh , Norman Irons , aims to complete by 1994 the construction of the first two of four floors within the church to provide a day centre and restaurant for local pensioners and dementia sufferers . |
| 22 | to provide a day for the people who |
| 23 | On returning a day or two later to pay for them , he saw in the yard a Scania tractor which had been included but not sold at the auction which he had attended . |
| 24 | Members of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education at Scarborough technical College are staging a day of action this week over the new Further Education Bill . |
| 25 | ‘ I would wait a day or two , ’ Cameron answered reluctantly . |
| 26 | If you want my advice , I think I 'd wait a day or two before doing anything . |
| 27 | ‘ Should n't we wait a day , just in case they do find us ? ’ she put forward stiltedly , and drew his narrow-eyed inspection . |
| 28 | This is obviously too short to be considered a day 's walk so if you 're sticking to the low level route you should link straight in to Day 11 by following the road from Elterwater to Grasmere . |
| 29 | I was , then , both surprised and disappointed to discover a day before the visit that Sir James would be coming alone . |
| 30 | THE WHO will be 25 years old next month , and not one of the band looks a day over 50 . |