Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] day in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Bobby we look forward to welcoming you to Oxford erm not only next week for the press launch but for the actual day in April . |
| 2 | However , Parke may soon be at the heels of Del Harris , the 20-year-old England No. 1 who had to battle hard for the second day in succession . |
| 3 | Yesterday , after purple thunderheads had bled rain over the hills for the third day in succession , the air had dried up . |
| 4 | A spokesman for the hospital said ’ During the four days in question Mrs License had an intravenous drip supplying all her essential nutrients . |
| 5 | The bowlers then found no difficulty in maintaining the lack of momentum as the second day in Colombo ended with Phil Tufnell again struggling for form , taking nought for 50 from 13 overs , with six boundaries being plundered from his first five overs . |
| 6 | Defence Secretary Dick Cheney was so cock-a-hoop about the first day in Somalia he started talking about the pull-out . |
| 7 | Sitting near the window , with its view of the fire escape , smoking a joint he 'd bought in an amusement arcade , he wrote in a notebook about visiting Spanish towns , and the beaches , then about the few days in London because his imagination ran out on Spain with the end of the brochure about flamenco dancing and bullfights , and because what he was doing was more immediate . |
| 8 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |
| 9 | His final words were that she needed a nice long holiday after a few days in bed . |
| 10 | In a month 's time we 'll have a quiet wedding in the local church , and after a few days in London we 'll travel through all the countries of Europe . ’ |
| 11 | It seems sensible to take advantage of the good days in order to make allowance for any excess eating on the difficult days , and dieting calorie intake can be averaged out on a weekly basis . |
| 12 | The sunshine when she landed at Heathrow was a cruel reminder to Alyssia of the lazy days in France she had thought would never end . |
| 13 | They were con-men who work the black market and although they spent the whole of the next day in Irkutsk taking me to lunch , visiting a host of Siberian churches and museums and organising a trip to the opera , their interest was in valutta — hard currency — not culture . |
| 14 | A brief ‘ diary ’ of the tense days in June 1988 , when a full-fledged ‘ xuechao ’ was narrowly avoided , is given below . |
| 15 | Right now it 's the end of a long day in London and the 48-year-old Young prowls the room with a stooped , rangy gait , the traces of a roguish grin on his well-worn face . |
| 16 | She wrote to us about it , it was like the first days in Britain except the weather was much better . |
| 17 | Disembark your luxury cruise ship for a free day in Vancouver , a modern and impressive city on an island off the coast of Canada . |
| 18 | We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel . |
| 19 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 20 | ‘ Could n't you stay with me for a few days in case those men come back . ’ |
| 21 | Wallington notes that road-blocks ‘ were widely used , especially within and on access roads to Nottinghamshire , but also elsewhere — notably ( for a few days in March 1984 ) at the south entrance to the Dartford tunnel . |
| 22 | Paddy Mayne 's veteran A Squadron returned from the Great Sand Sea to Kufra for a few days in mid-November , having successfully raided airfields around Gazala , familiar territory from the past . |
| 23 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |
| 24 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 25 | Failure to do so was punished by being forced to wear the hated beret for a whole day in school — for lessons , lunch , everything , a badge of shame Sally had so far managed to avoid . |
| 26 | The cultural materialists abandon the traditional Marxist use of history as a ground for truth in favour of bringing history into the present day in order to intervene in their own institutional and academic political context . |
| 27 | His tale ( Off Piste ) of salvaging a dismal winter season with a superb day in April will arouse the jealousy of many a jaded ice-man of late . |
| 28 | Not since a bony young Yorkshireman , Len Hutton , batted into a third day in August 1938 against Bradman 's Australia to pass the Don 's record score for a test match had the British known such transcendent moments of self-belief through sport . |
| 29 | With every hot day in July worth so much more than one in the mists of September , the later start threatens to take the gloss of what , at first glance , seems set to be a good harvest . |
| 30 | They had ordered Bowe to defend against Lewis or be stripped of his title but Bowe told yesterday 's press conference : ‘ Today will be remembered as an historic day in boxing . |