Example sentences of "[vb infin] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't thought about it before then , and I said well I would need a day or two to think about it . |
| 2 | Do you need a day like this specifically to raise funds . |
| 3 | Raymond , her husband , Bernard 's father , would need a days notice of her absence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! ] . |
| 7 | ‘ I would wait a day or two , ’ Cameron answered reluctantly . |
| 8 | If you want my advice , I think I 'd wait a day or two before doing anything . |
| 9 | ‘ Should n't we wait a day , just in case they do find us ? ’ she put forward stiltedly , and drew his narrow-eyed inspection . |
| 10 | The campaign is based around a $1 million advertising campaign on the slogan : " Your car can survive a day without you : can you survive without your car ? " |
| 11 | Most high flying executives , he told me , could not survive a day without a list in lieu of a memory . |
| 12 | So whether you come along to buy , try or just sigh , we can guarantee a day of thrills and trills . |
| 13 | I 'll identify a day , |
| 14 | They are nothing worth looking at , for they have green hair and green teeth and little pigs ' eyes and long red noses and shod arms more like a flipper than any respectable arm that could do a day 's work . |
| 15 | I said to Celia how many she thinks she can do a day , she thinks about two thousand , depending on what she 's doing . |
| 16 | I 'd love to be back in Bishop Auckland just now , if only for the gossip , but I ca n't do a day 's canvassing and sometimes feel a bit of a passenger . |
| 17 | He 's got the gall to phone up on Tuesday and say Eileen ca n't do a day , we 're going to be short of Eileen . |
| 18 | I says that 's got ta be Warren , it could n't be anybody else , so when I come down I went off like , well I tell ya I ca n't do it , so I knew it was so I picked up the wrong she says oh I 'm just ringing because you can see what the weather is she says and you could n't go and do a day in erm , with your |
| 19 | This magical number may have rendered the split-screen sequence superfluous ; but most Astaire and Charisse fans would probably give a day 's pay to see it once . |
| 20 | I did n't look a day older . |
| 21 | The star 's penchant for nymphet flesh is a matter of record yet the actresses chosen to portray these girls are all individuals who do n't look a day under 25 . |
| 22 | The former south London schoolgirl does n't look a day older than when she was spotted by a talent scout in an airport lounge at the age of 14 . |
| 23 | He had to be fifty , but he did not look a day over thirty-five , an illusion helped by his lopsided boyish grin that was so very full of charm . |
| 24 | ‘ I can honestly say you do n't look a day over twenty-five . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ My dear , ’ he said , ‘ you do n't look a day under eight . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You do n't look a day older than the last time I worked with you . ’ |
| 27 | These could provide a day striking force for anti-shipping and coastal operations of a more flexible nature than the night-only Wellingtons . |
| 28 | I 'll check to see what 's on offer and in the meantime , how would you like a day 's pay here ? ’ |
| 29 | If you take one of our accountants who might spend a day a month with a small business , the fact that the business is small and we 're big does n't matter at all . |
| 30 | The outside is lit by zany neon , and you can spend a day just reading the cartoons in the corridors ( Lower Town , 1 Place Rogier , telephone 02/2177580 , cost 3,900 fr ) . |