Example sentences of "long day [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well her daddy he 's not so bad , he 's I think he has two long days but as you say well sh sh you ca n't |
| 2 | After long days and nights alone I would wake in the mornings wondering if this new day would bring a new poem from you , a new smile as you ran dancing towards me on your boxer 's turned-in toes . |
| 3 | Ever since she had left school Paula had worked in one of the big department stores in Bristol and she loved it , although the lengthy journey made for very long days and the bus fares ate holes in her meagre salary . |
| 4 | Hay-making meant long days and tough work , all by hand . |
| 5 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 6 | Summer , with its endlessly long days and grouse shooting … |
| 7 | My unwanted guest and I spent five long days and evenings together , with the wind and rain beating on the windows . |
| 8 | During long days and as many nights , he drew , giving concrete expression to abstract ideas and reducing the results to their fundamentals . |
| 9 | Noah 's faith was persistent ; through the taunts of unbelievers as he worked ; through the rainstorm ; through the tragedy of knowing that men and women were dying in the flood ; through the long days and nights waiting for the next stage , as the waters went down . |
| 10 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 11 | ‘ I know it 's been a long day but I want you to drive to Sion tonight . |
| 12 | Cathy had been assigned a tutor , she used to take her daughter along to a little school ( not her previous school ) and have lessons there in the staffroom : I never liked school before but I liked this as it was only half-past nine till half-past twelve so it was n't a long day and I could take Rebecca with me . |
| 13 | By this time Sandy and I were feeling the effects of our long day and by mutual agreement we made our way back to the ship . |
| 14 | The guilt she felt in depriving him of any pleasure was like a stitch in her side , yet the thought of the long day and the long drive were beyond acceptance . |
| 15 | A yawn took her by surprise ; her long day and the worry about Dana , to say nothing of the arrival of Roman Wyatt , had finally caught up with her . |
| 16 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
| 17 | and it 's a long day and then you 'd have to come back and your day 's far from over . |