Example sentences of "[adj] day at " in BNC.
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1 | On wet days at Great Casterton we took it in turns to lecture , and on one of them I offered to talk about the Fosse Way as a Roman military frontier , a subject which had intrigued me from my work at Lincoln . |
2 | It 's amusing anecdote central with the rent-a-gob Cockney git and erstwhile punk rock Hip Young Gunslinger as they fondly reminisce about their halcyon days at The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly with a greenly envious IAN McCANN |
3 | As I escorted Marinka to the Oasis Arena in the torrential rain , the scene of mimose reminded me of my halcyon days at . |
4 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |
5 | Not like the old days at all . |
6 | Here the engineers have to carry out most of their work on Sundays when traffic is light , but this often entails diversions and extended journey times followed by temporary speed restrictions for a few further days at the beginning of each week . |
7 | No doubt every comfort will be laid on , though , in winter , there will always be the sharp east wind to remind occupants of tougher days at Dovercourt . |
8 | Samples were kept for up to 30 days at 37°C under nitrogen and studied daily in search of cholesterol crystals . |
9 | A POLICEMAN who slapped a prisoner twice during a struggle at Fort William police station was jailed for 30 days at Fort William Sheriff Court yesterday . |
10 | I know she became somewhat lonely because her husband , although he was a very hard worker , would go off on a spree for some days at a time . |
11 | I could get used to two and a half days at school a week instead of five ! |
12 | After a few days at Broadlands , they flew to Gibraltar to join the Royal Yacht Britannia for a two-week cruise in and around the Mediterranean . |
13 | ‘ This young lad was getting people to mind Sam for a few days at a time . |
14 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
15 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
16 | When his few days at Culbone were over , Coleridge descended again into the prosaic lowland world , and by 14 October was home at Lime Street , gloomy and impoverished . |
17 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |
18 | She wondered again what her grandfather 's thoughts and feelings had been in those few days at Dudley House . |
19 | For a few days at the beginning of August 1920 , it was widely believed that the Government was preparing to send a new British Expeditionary Force to relieve the Polish Army . |
20 | The idea is to spend a few days at a hotel and all you have to pay for are the meals and any extras , such as wine . |
21 | Throughout the field investigation there will obviously be exchanges of information between the engineering , operational , flight recorder and pathological investigators , and for the first few days at least there will be regular meetings for mutual consultation at the end of each day 's work . |
22 | After spending a few days at Snaefellsness , our final goal was the fabulous Lake Mývatn . |
23 | Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages . |
24 | It was an act of creative destruction , but in those first few days at the refuge what had seemed positive began to seem rootless and resourceless . |
25 | Initially for a few days at a time , then for weeks , and eventually whole months . |
26 | However , whereas years of training and practice were usually needed to master the many and complex skills of recombinant DNA technology , the complete beginner can start to perform polymerase chain reaction experiments and generate meaningful results within a few days at most — hence the explosion of activity . |
27 | The process can be unpleasant and dangerous if unsupervised , but with medical , nursing and family help most people can ‘ detox ’ surprisingly easily within a few days at home or , if necessary , in hospital , without untoward symptoms . |
28 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
29 | Sometimes Elise would come up to London to spend a few days at Merrill 's flat and together they visited galleries , and saw a show . |
30 | ‘ I 'll stay for a few days at least — if she can put up with me . ’ |