Example sentences of "up [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let us meet outside the gates , ’ he said , ‘ and draw up the day 's work . ’ |
| 2 | The thunder broke not long after sunset , as Cameron and Menzies sat with a jug of wine , reckoning up the day 's gains and setbacks . |
| 3 | But I 'm not giving up the day job — yet . |
| 4 | It is better than tripods for a really wet crop since the crop may be put up the day it is cut even in rainy weather . |
| 5 | As we sat at the loch eating a cold lunch , deciding who could first pin the blame on the other for messing up the day , we heard voices from the cliffs surrounding the lochan . |
| 6 | Thus , as Neugebauer has succinctly remarked , our present way of dividing up the day into hours , minutes , and seconds ‘ is the result of a Hellenistic modification of an Egyptian practice combined with Babylonian numerical procedures ’ . |
| 7 | An official teachers ' guide may recommend project work and locally based enquiry , whereas the official timetable renders such initiatives impossible by dividing up the day into small fragments . |
| 8 | In summing up the day the Bishop emphasised the fact that there are weak as well as strong , failures as well as successes , amongst the people of God . |
| 9 | Steve gave up the day job last August and , with my razor sharp powers of journalistic observation , I think the day had some importance for him . |
| 10 | But the plot has more holes than an OAP 's hairnet , and the supercilious Ms Dash thoroughly deserves the pig-ignorant Mr Wayans , I strongly advise brother Marlon not to give up the day job and I sincerely hope I am indisposed should they decide to foist Mo' Money 2 on us . |
| 11 | In either case , a good meal helps to relax the body and spirit and wind up the day . |
| 12 | She 'll ring me up the day before . ’ |
| 13 | It goes with gossip , it livens up the day , it becomes a social event in itself . |
| 14 | SOAKING UP THE DAY OUT |
| 15 | ‘ The idea is to give up the day job and retreat to darkest Suffolk , ’ he said wistfully . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , my advice to him would be , do n't give up the day job . |
| 17 | Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August . |
| 18 | He had told them he had things to do at home , had saved up the day for solitude . |
| 19 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 20 | So , let's wrap up the day now . |
| 21 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 22 | do n't give up the day job Nigel … not that he 'd want to … red five flies again at Donington Park on sunday … |
| 23 | Yeah we did it last year cos I broke up the day before last year all of mine still at school that day . |
| 24 | We had a job which was involved in loading up the day before this is in a big van , in the previous job I I had , er er a large van fu filling it full of a houseful of furniture in the afternoon , sp spending two or three hours taking it out of store , and we were asked to deliver it to an address in New Brighton . |
| 25 | ‘ By adding up the days migraine stole from me in the past , I calculate that I shall be able to enjoy living for three extra weeks in a year ! ’ |
| 26 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 27 | Since the plant manager was never able to make up a day 's loss of output which pulled down his monthly overall efficiency figures on which he was judged , it was never difficult for Clasper to prove his point . |
| 28 | He gives up a day job to write down the stories — of the Secret Mountain , the Sound that could be Seen , the Slow Children and the Magic Duvet — that he once told for free to a rabble of offspring and other kin and friends . |
| 29 | ‘ Did n't I dig that up a day or two ago ? ’ |
| 30 | As public shopping arcades lend themselves to situations of abuse it is important that they have somewhere warm to go ; one example of a voluntary initiative is that Bradford Council of Mosques has set up a day centre for retired older men . |