Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] day [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a two day hearing the magistrates took 20 minutes to find Mr Gould not guilty , a verdict that disappointed Mr Hoad . |
| 2 | Diana is expected to leave Wood Farm after a few days to spend the rest of the Christmas holiday with her brother Earl Spencer . |
| 3 | After a hard day tramping the hills in pursuit of brown trout , or fruitless hours on the banks of the river , trying to persuade salmon to rise , it is a great pleasure to plunge into the hotel pool and swim toils and tribulations away . |
| 4 | If there were 1 000 observations altogether , and 500 represented state 1 in the list above ( W followed by W ) then the probability of a wet day following a wet day would be estimated as 0.5 . |
| 5 | If so , store in a warm ( airing ) cupboard for a few days to allow the new neck position to settle . |
| 6 | The first Leopold heard of it was when his son coolly informed him that he was accompanying Aloysia and her father for a few days to visit the Princess of Orange at Kircheim-Bolanden , where Aloysia was to sing several arias that Wolfgang had written for her . |
| 7 | The second is a slick operator , who studies his victim 's habits for a few days to establish a safe crime time . |
| 8 | Local shopkeepers , community centres , libraries and other local venues should be asked to display prominently the posters for a few days preceding the consultation date/s . |
| 9 | The same team followed that up just ten days later with a French day to commemorate the storming of the Bastille on July 14 . |
| 10 | REDCAR 'S West Indian professional Clayton Lambert likes batting at Northallerton and with a fine day forecast the Seasider 's should get no less than 15 points from this contest despite the absence of seam bowler Mick Smallwood , who is injured . |
| 11 | In Asia Minor about 110 the younger Pliny , the governor of Bithynia , asked Trajan whether the profession of Christianity was in itself culpable or ‘ the vices associated with the name ’ , especially since after investigation by torture he had discovered that there were no frightful vices : the accused said their custom was to meet before dawn on a particular day to sing a hymn to Christ as a god and to take an oath ( sacramentum ) to abstain from wrongdoing . |
| 12 | So obvious are these vertical shafts and so compelling an attraction that it is usual on a fine day to find a line of cars parked along the roadside and people of all ages timidly visiting each one to peer into the depths . |