Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] day [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He needed their support after a hard day 's work in often uncomfortable conditions . |
| 3 | The children 's mothers are tea pluckers and earn as little as £1 for a full day 's work . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The job needs ‘ someone determined to have a fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay , whether in wages or welfare . |
| 6 | ‘ Scroungers ’ expect something for nothing from the Welfare State , rather than offering a fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | She was n't in the mood for a long day 's screwing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Most Specials mix their part-time police duties with a full day 's work . |
| 11 | Most of them mix their part time police duties with a full day 's work . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Well , to embrace both decency and pop in this context , to be a socialist by day and a hip hopper by night after a hard day 's campaigning , are quite feasible options , but only in a rotten , free-market society such as our own . |
| 14 | She will probably welcome your offer of help with such matters as the registration of the death , notifying distant friends , putting an announcement of death in local or national newspapers if she wants this , and dealing with kindly enquiries from neighbours in a tactful way , so that they understand that she may not be feeling like having too many callers at first but will greatly appreciate their help and sympathy in a few days ' ( or weeks , ) time ; and making arrangements for the funeral and any family gathering that is to take place afterwards . |
| 15 | Table 4 is an example of a typical day 's food intake . |
| 16 | I with Mathilda , Benjamin with Rachel , Bowyer with good food and drink , and the Agentes with the prospect of a good day 's hunting . |
| 17 | On my way home I reflect on the pleasures of a good day 's fishing . |
| 18 | Some celebrated empirical studies of work groups have argued that so-called restrictive practices usually reflect the attempt by workers to impose their own definition of a fair day 's work . |
| 19 | This would on past experience coax the crocuses out in Hyde Park , only to be spiked by frost in a few days ' time . |
| 20 | With perfect bad timing Inge , the au pair , had left that very morning on a few days ' holiday , and tomorrow was Nettie the housekeeper 's day off . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most enjoyable trip is the final schuss into the village centre after a hard day 's skiing and an essential stop-off for a limb-loosening rum chocolate at Cafe Oberland . |
| 22 | Perhaps they could use some of their undoubted energy in joining a night shotgun vigil after a hard day 's work ? |
| 23 | Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers . |
| 24 | For those attached to the London course these fees show an increase on the fees paid in 1981 , but teachers are asked to realise that £3.00 or £2.50 for a full day 's training is amazing value . |
| 25 | It is worth quoting in full Hardie 's graphic account of a typical day 's work by one of the artists : |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This is one of the effects of lack of oxygen , but also of dehydration at the end of a long day 's excitement . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |
| 30 | At the end of a hard day 's racing , there are awards given out to the top six riders in each class , making all the effort worthwhile . |