Example sentences of "day at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hormone progestogen taken regularly every day at the same time causes changes making it difficult for sperm to enter the womb or for the womb to accept a fertilised egg . |
| 2 | ‘ He would be better doing a day at the mill . ’ |
| 3 | But one day at the club when he trotted out this phrase during some heated discussion in the midst of a little group of members ( all of them persons of some consequence ) , Nicholas Stavrogin who was standing to one side alone and unnoticed , suddenly went up to Mr Gaganov and , taking him unexpectedly and firmly with two fingers by the nose , managed to drag him two or three steps across the room . |
| 4 | Appropriately , the Wilcox narrative seems to be the book of his most widely read by the kind of people who have just put in a tough day at the office or have two weeks on the beach before clocking back on . |
| 5 | SAN SALVADOR ( Reuter ) — One of two occupations of embassies in San Salvador ended when human rights activists freed 13 hostages they had held for a day at the Costa Rican Embassy and left . |
| 6 | Prince Edward attends the presentation of the Historical Association 's Young Historians prizes on the First National History Day at the Imperial War Museum , London SE1 . |
| 7 | 12 October : The Prince Edward this evening presented the Historical Association 's Young Historian prizes on the First National History Day at the Imperial War Museum , London SE1 . |
| 8 | ‘ If you have spent a day at the stadium , the one thing you do n't need is to spend an evening at the theatre . |
| 9 | The reasons for the brutality and racism which are displayed every day at the ports of entry in Britain and at the British High Commissions in the Indian subcontinent are the laws themselves — laws which are seen as essential to wider government policy and which though blatantly racist ( in fact they would not stand up before the Race Relations Act ) were each introduced as a contribution to good community relations . |
| 10 | There were production problems early on too , which cost as many as 500 cars a day at the Halewood plant . |
| 11 | Friday 30 june was not untypical of a normal day at the PT School . |
| 12 | Another day at the WRAC Centre draws to a close . |
| 13 | Pass-Off Day at the Light Division Depot |
| 14 | ‘ This is a beautiful day at the end of a long way , but we are not yet at the end of that way , a whole lot remains to be done , ’ Mr Brandt said . |
| 15 | After a normal day at the Panama Canal Commission 's public affairs office in Balboa Heights , I had returned to my home in La Boca , formerly part of the canal zone and now on Panamanian territory . |
| 16 | In a windy , cold field in Cambridgeshire , green with winter wheat , half a mile away from where Angela Morgan 's body had been found , a small man with a narrow , turned-down mouth sat smoking his twentieth cigarette of the day at the wheel of a Land Rover . |
| 17 | That , gentle people , was hardly a day at the beach . |
| 18 | Ali 's day at the hospital is nearly over . |
| 19 | They never went in for small talk ( ‘ Had a nice day at the office , darling ? ’ complete with obligatory peck . |
| 20 | ‘ Laurence Taylor died at Stubbylee of Asiatic Cholera , having arrived from Liverpool only on Saturday last ; he was interred the same day at the old Baptist Chapel . ’ |
| 21 | Oh , they 've started doing guided walks round the cemetery , and there 's going to be an open day at the sewage works . |
| 22 | Protein , index and pedigree ruled the day at the fifth Hayleys Invitational Sale in Essex last week , with breeders failing to dig as deeply into their pockets as in previous years . |
| 23 | Or no , she thought , no — for that last , golden day at the girls ' preparatory school , which had coincided with her fifty-first birthday , that had been a joy such as she had never dared to hope for , a once-in-a-lifetime joy . |
| 24 | Of all the most damned of coincidences ! she 'd thought , when Ari had told her what had happened in the canteen that first day at the Park . |
| 25 | His teachings were regarded as being of such importance that they are used unaltered to this day at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna . |
| 26 | And the cost of a day at the ball park ? |
| 27 | Rachel Karafistan , now 18 , who co-founded the Bare Essentials Youth Theatre , will know soon whether she has won a day at the Olivier theatre , working with actors and directors including Anthony Hopkins , Ian McKellen and Richard Eyre , as part of the Lloyds Bank Theatre Challenge . |
| 28 | Good value also was a day at the private Plage de la Cannelle at St Maxime . |
| 29 | ESTEFANIA KNUTH was a resounding four shots better than any of the other returns with a 73 after a wet and windswept first qualifying day at the French Juniors Championship here last night . |
| 30 | Parents have been invited to an open day at the Royal Opera House which includes a back-stage tour , as well as dance and make-up sessions . |