Example sentences of "day a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathon Pendrous ; by day a cleaner clearing up the stage after other peoples ' glory , but by night when the actors have gone home , and the audience has left the theatre to its ghostly past … |
| 2 | One day a trunk-load of winter woollens turned up , a gift from Johannesburg where a news item in the local paper had inspired a ladies ' circle to start knitting . |
| 3 | On Dec. 18 most Moldavian deputies staged a walkout because representatives of the separatist Gagauz and Dnestr Russian communities were taking part in the Congress as guests ( on the previous day a rally against the treaty in Kishinev , Moldavia 's capital , had attracted up to 200,000 people ) . |
| 4 | One day a subaltern got into a first-class railway carriage and found sitting there a ‘ coloured gentleman ’ . |
| 5 | At the end of the day a company is no more ( but even more importantly , no less ) than the sum of the people and the skills that comprise it . |
| 6 | One day a boy who had been told to wash his hands said , ‘ Shanti 's lucky . |
| 7 | one day a Boy had a imvertashun to go to a party in Sawth a Merica on the way a crocodil sad Hello Boy do you wont to come Friends yes sad the Boy do you want to come to a Party with my yes sad the crocodil comon then ill calle you Croc do you like that name yes i do What is your name my name is dafydd you can koll my dafy Comon then When they came to the partty a nother boy said helo crocodile and the crocodile said my name is croc okay said the boy croc come and eat okay Boy So he did . |
| 8 | Finally , one day a boy called Charlie bawled out , ‘ Nigger ! ’ at me and I chased him in a fury . |
| 9 | Later that day a boy was killed and rioters left about 100 state buildings , banks and co-operative stores burned or looted . |
| 10 | " One day a neighbour opposite came to tell me my little boa was hanging over the other side of the railings on our landing . |
| 11 | On the same day a US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit overturned the five-count criminal conviction handed down in June 1990 on John Poindexter , President Reagan 's national security adviser in 1985-6 , for his role in the scandal [ see p. 37525 ] . |
| 12 | But the previous day a judge had adjourned the trial of Winnie Mandela , wife of the ANC 's leader , who faces charges of kidnapping and assault . |
| 13 | For two days after their conversation Ruth did not see the woman , and then on the third day a man leaned over from the upper deck and called out to her . |
| 14 | Everything goes smoothly , the syndicate collecting their financial reward , until one day a man appears in the gallery where the first exhibition was held claiming to be Hopkin . |
| 15 | ‘ One day a man knocked on my door , and asked to be painted in a nearby churchyard , ‘ to symbolise the desolation of my life ’ , he said . |
| 16 | Then one day a man shot one of the prostitutes , Rosita . |
| 17 | That is small compared with the number of marriages — 7.8m in 1984 and 9.3m in 1989 — but in Mao 's day a divorce was considered an offence against socialism and so was almost impossible to obtain . |
| 18 | Because er most of the year we tell our kids not to talk to strangers , and then one day a year you send the little so and sos out to knock on peoples doors to ask for money er and sweets and things like that . |
| 19 | For this one day a year , the usually gridlocked streets of New York were closed to traffic and lined with nearly three million people who proved that when the craziness and complexity is forgotten for 24 hours , they can be among the most decent and welcoming supporters of the human spirit they were witnessing and cheering in the runners thronging their streets . |
| 20 | It comes on the same day a consortium , including Central , took financial control of ITV 's national news service , ITN . |
| 21 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 22 | Mother 's Day a fortnight |
| 23 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 24 | On the opening day a session equivalent to Prime Minister 's question time in the Commons enables Synod members to put Church leaders on the spot . |
| 25 | So , that made the day a bit more interesting , but he 's been stuck with er , all these upper class councillors that telling him what his job is , and |
| 26 | One day a child came home from Sunday School declaring that he had just been hearing about how Moses crossed the Red Sea with tanks and Bailey bridges . |
| 27 | Every day a child somewhere is a victim . |
| 28 | He is able to reveal that Mr Cliburn 's famous victory in Moscow was engineered by one of the judges : Sviatoslav Richter , a great Russian pianist who was in his day a child prodigy . |
| 29 | One day a policeman stopped a Lapp who was striding across it . |
| 30 | Next day a Policeman 's face all patched , |