Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] day ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was moving back on board Wavebreaker in preparation for the next day 's early departure . |
| 2 | These depressions were usually connected with his job ; she guessed he was still irritated by his wasted trip to Glasgow and consequent lack of a story for the next day 's paper . |
| 3 | Matthew Fleming scored 63 for Kent against Nottinghamshire at Maidstone on June 30 in borrowed kit , having left his at Gateshead after the previous day 's match with Durham . |
| 4 | Lovers of good beer — well deserved of course after a hard day 's exercise — wo n't have to go far for a fine pint . |
| 5 | He needed their support after a hard day 's work in often uncomfortable conditions . |
| 6 | After a good night 's sleep in the spacious suites , they should be in an excellent frame of mind for the next day 's play . |
| 7 | The children 's mothers are tea pluckers and earn as little as £1 for a full day 's work . |
| 8 | It was mid-afternoon before confirmation of the following day 's run was received . |
| 9 | Thus , the APT system allows investors to react to market sensitive news released late in the afternoon and also to movements of New York share prices that might affect the direction of the following day 's trading on the ISE . |
| 10 | And tidying up after removal and spring cleaning homes that have n't been touched for years are all part of a normal day 's work . |
| 11 | It is very well known that dreams often contain elements — visual or ideational — that can be identified as being part of the previous day 's experiment . |
| 12 | He says : ‘ I used to do all my own stunts , then one day I thought , ‘ Why am I depriving a stuntman of an honest day 's work ? ’ |
| 13 | One ball from Larwood brought everything to a climax on the afternoon of the second day 's play before a record crowd of 50,692 . |
| 14 | The job needs ‘ someone determined to have a fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay , whether in wages or welfare . |
| 15 | ‘ Scroungers ’ expect something for nothing from the Welfare State , rather than offering a fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay . |
| 16 | ‘ A fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay ’ was their motto and , if they expected the pay to satisfy them , they also confidently expected the work to satisfy everybody , including themselves . |
| 17 | are not based on some economic theory but on things I and millions like me were brought up with : an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay ; live within your means ; put a nest egg by for a rainy day ; pay your bills on time ; support the police . |
| 18 | That sounds humane enough in theory , and no doubt it saved many hundreds of families from starvation during the years of the French wars ; but it positively encouraged employers to keep wages at rock-bottom levels , while anyone who wanted to do an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay was subject , instead , to the ignominy of accepting supplementary alms in order to live . |
| 19 | As Judith finished cleaning out the hen for the next day 's dinner , she made room on the kitchen table for her mother to prepare the Friday-night traditional meal of gefilte fish . |
| 20 | She was n't in the mood for a long day 's screwing . |
| 21 | Six supermodels feature in the new spring/summer Littlewoods home shopping catalogue , and though they all charge up to £10,000 for a single day 's work the clothes they model for Littlewoods are all within easy reach of every woman . |
| 22 | When the Israelites go out to gather it , each of them gathers exactly the right amount for himself and his family ; on the sixth day of the week a double portion is given and collected so that the sabbath rest can be properly kept ; on the sabbath , appropriately , no manna appears at all ; while any kept at the end of any of the first five days goes bad overnight , the half of the sixth day 's gathering put aside for the sabbath keeps perfectly fresh . |
| 23 | Most Specials mix their part-time police duties with a full day 's work . |
| 24 | Most of them mix their part time police duties with a full day 's work . |
| 25 | The speech received much applause , and my remarks about the regalia were given prominence in the next day 's papers . |
| 26 | In order to try and get a ‘ Northern English accent ’ , Dustin went to see the Beatles in A Hard Day 's Night about a dozen times determined to ‘ sound like those guys ’ . |
| 27 | Including going over the tapes for the next day 's lectures . ’ |
| 28 | Seven hours of torrential rain during the second day 's play reduced the pitch to a lake which in places had the players running calf deep in muddy water . |
| 29 | We were sitting round the newsroom table , mulling over ideas for the next day 's programme . |
| 30 | Anyone who has made the mistake of parking at harvest-time under the trees which line the Place Drouet d'Erlon in Reims , will realise that most of Champagne 's bird life return each night to this one street to rest and make room for the following day 's gorging of grapes . |