Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to take it in turns day by day to get this monstrosity going , or freeze to death , and the hours I 've spent wasting matches , holding sheets of paper against the opening to create an up-draught , blowing like a whale whenever a tiny spark appeared ! |
| 2 | Popping along to open days and public events to see what 's on offer and collecting a few prospectuses will give some data to think about . |
| 3 | The amount left over shrinks by 16 p.c. to £12,734 which is just enough to cover day by day living expenses , as extrapolated from the National Expenditure Survey , without allowing for higher basic costs in London and the costs associated with employing a nanny . |
| 4 | Enough forthe day and , good God , it would have to be fish and chips . |
| 5 | A day in Bodrum is a must , especially market day . |
| 6 | I asked Scotty whether this description suited those long gone days at Sun … |
| 7 | It is a hangover from those long gone days when it was actually used for darning socks ! |
| 8 | Since one-day cricket does not count as first-class stuff — quite rightly , in the view of growling conservatives — there are no longer enough playing days for a man to pile up those 3,000 runs or those 200 wickets . |
| 9 | How gay it was in spring , under the linden trees : people sauntering , the cafés full , everyone enjoying themselves , and to walk it now with — ’ he smiled again , an elderly uncle 's smile , recalling long lost days , when the linden trees bloomed along the avenue — ‘ with a pretty girl . |
| 10 | Yeah it is yeah mind you only short days |
| 11 | ST ( who had not received day care in hospital ) was less likely to become disturbed when offered assistance . |
| 12 | NHS professionals normally perceive day hospitals as a possible alternative to hospital admission for people who are acutely ill and can not be treated as outpatients or at home , as a place for recently discharged short-term in-patients to attend for a period while settling back into normal life , and as a place to treat , monitor and give social support to long-term patients who would otherwise live isolated lives . |
| 13 | So would ICI 's caustic-soda and chlorine business , which supplies raw materials to EVC — a throwback to ICI 's vertically integrated days . |
| 14 | Thus state day nurseries became confined very largely to the children of poor and needy parents , often single parents . |
| 15 | The players , too , are more anonymous than the cast of Eldorado , utterly failing day after day to appear in newspapers slagging off former colleagues , admitting to alcoholism or wife beating , promoting violent videos or even being pictured giving V-signs to supporters . |
| 16 | I got a room in the inn , and despite the windiness of the house and the army of earwigs that people it , I was very snug : a friend who has been there in winter gives amusing particulars regarding the draughts that are vocal as well as felt in this palace of the winds ; he found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket , and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past , for all was dark — yet were not the breathings of the winds hushed ! |
| 17 | ‘ To decide to negotiate the Queen 's or Albert Bridges at busy times on busy days — not to mention days of traffic chaos caused by bomb scares — is ludicrous . |
| 18 | Good practice requires local authorities to give full consideration to the views of parents and children when deciding whether or not to offer day care services to children in need ( Guidance , vol 2 , para 3.5 ) . |
| 19 | The budget of the Horton generally puts day to day work has got to better reflect the fact that there 's a growing district Hospital , and has got to better reflect the size of the population it serves , and then also about a third of the patients that are treated at the Horton come from Warwickshire , Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire , but actually the Horton is funded as if every patient there comes from Oxfordshire , and that 's clearly crazy , and we 've got to make quite sure that cross-boundary flows of patients are better reflected by cross boundary flows of money . |
| 20 | It eventually capitulated days before the Panel was due to exercise its right to apply to the courts for a forced restatement of the accounts . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend is also right that business wants regulations kept in bounds , with decent regulations so that markets are fair and open , but it does not want the masses of red tape that the Opposition are always recommending day after day in the House . |
| 22 | For research with young children the department has a specially equipped Day Nursery . |
| 23 | One of the earliest documented encounters took place in AD 109 when a dolphin befriended a boy swimming offshore at the Roman settlement of Hippo in northern Africa , and thereafter returned day after day to play with other children , who slowly overcame their initial fear . |
| 24 | Glancing at him , she queried helplessly , ‘ Do you ever have days when you wish you 'd stayed in bed ? ’ |
| 25 | Once VE Day was over , we were all very happy because it meant the end of air raids and bombing attacks on Germany , and we now turned our thoughts to the problem of subduing the little yellow perils . |
| 26 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 27 | . And on a S Monday , it were always killing day at the Co-op , always killing day . |
| 28 | . And on a S Monday , it were always killing day at the Co-op , always killing day . |
| 29 | Home raided days after cremation |
| 30 | Planners need to look at the long term provision of locally based day care as well as reviewing current provision in terms of suitability , costs etc . |