Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] a day [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 2 | One finding of interest provided by the test with a calendar was that a high proportion of pupils in all attainment bands knew that dates in the following year fell a day later than the previous one . |
| 3 | Columbia 's 10-day mission ended a day early on Dec. 10 . |
| 4 | They held it here , in a pleasant village outside London , and ran up to a hundred excursion trains a day out to it . |
| 5 | Well if they owe us money and stuff like that , we might have to be going to court in the end with it but the only trouble is , we 're losing that much bloody time taking a day off and going down there ! |
| 6 | So , so used to your sort of third week having a day off in the week . |
| 7 | WHEN delegates of the Whitbread Merit Table clubs took time off from their deliberations over leagues last week to enjoy a day out at the University Match , they took the opportunity to complain to Cardiff about the legions of players who have made the journey to the Arms Park in recent months . |
| 8 | It is a lovely and quiet spot to spend a day out . |