Example sentences of "a long day " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have spent a long day on the airfield , it will be difficult to refuse your turn to fly , even if you are tired . |
| 2 | Usually it is at the end of a long day 's racing , with a number of stressful periods all adding to the pilot 's fatigue . |
| 3 | This is one of the effects of lack of oxygen , but also of dehydration at the end of a long day 's excitement . |
| 4 | This will depend on the parents ' working hours , but it can be a long day , possibly 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.mm. , or even longer . |
| 5 | ‘ We were benighted after a long day 's ride to Rannoch , ordering floor timber for the mill . ’ |
| 6 | It 's a long day out , but a most rewarding one , as I was to discover . |
| 7 | A comfortable sleeping bag provides the means to re-charge your batteries at the end of a long day so it 's important to ensure you have the right one for the job . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll have a long day tomorrow , ’ Rose encouraged . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've had a long day , Nora . |
| 10 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
| 11 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |
| 12 | In Meswick hunters can find lodging in the Mushroom Cap Motel and tip back a few beers at the Mushroom Bar at the end of a long day 's tramp . |
| 13 | He was ‘ permitted to put in a long day 's work for his Master , and it can be truly said that he gave his best ’ . |
| 14 | His Spanish ADC , General Alava , however , remembered to his dying day the way his heart sank on hearing his Commander cheerfully giving orders for ‘ cold meat at dawn ’ before a long day 's reconnaissance , or perhaps a day 's hunting in Portugal with his ‘ family ’ . |
| 15 | These buildings were invariably well heated and conducive to ‘ nodding off at the end of a long day . |
| 16 | It was going to be a long day . |
| 17 | The end of a long day … |
| 18 | ‘ The interview came at the end of a long day . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's been a long day . ’ |
| 20 | It was St Patrick 's Night , 1912 , and Sergeant O'Neil had had a long day , what with the parade and all . |
| 21 | Despite a long day of rehearsals , and a long tiring performance , Gracie was the life of the party , and her homey Lancashire friendliness made everyone love her . |
| 22 | These workmen , of course , all had to walk to work , and with a six o'clock start and 6 pm finish , it was a long day . |
| 23 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 24 | Carl had got home after a long day . |
| 25 | After a long day of wiping her son 's eyes , arse and office floors , mummy was often too exhausted to continue the struggle . |
| 26 | Relaxing after dinner with a cup of any of the new Kenco rich-tasting coffees is a great way of unwinding after the stresses and strains of a long day . |
| 27 | Miss Lodsworth had had a long day . |
| 28 | It 's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees , and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it . |
| 29 | They forced themselves to eat the porridge , the eggs fresh from the nest , for they had a long day before them . |
| 30 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |