Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] day in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His final words were that she needed a nice long holiday after a few days in bed . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Disembark your luxury cruise ship for a free day in Vancouver , a modern and impressive city on an island off the coast of Canada . |
| 6 | We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel . |
| 7 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 8 | ‘ Could n't you stay with me for a few days in case those men come back . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I say , I say ’ — quotes from a momentous day in Parliament |
| 17 | Over a few days in May 1984 Puhe accompanied Andrew Kerr of FoE Scotland and other campaigners in a tour of Scotland , England and Wales which took in 47 sites , at 31 of which beech , Douglas fir and spruce were found with the same symptoms as those in West Germany . |
| 18 | A Landsat TM image of Leicestershire recorded on a cloud-free day in July 1984 constitutes the basic data source . |
| 19 | They seem to have treated the lifters as brainlessly as they did a student with a night job in Bournemouth when he could n't give a sample despite an hour of trying on a roasting day in London . |
| 20 | Still more horrors — if rugby under the new law is difficult to play and to control on a dry day in South Africa , imagine the effect in marshy old England in the mud and rain of January ; imagine the shambles the game will become at the lower levels in those conditions with the sanctuary of the next scrum no longer available to the team carrying the ball . |
| 21 | If those on the Opposition Front Bench are right and there is an election on a certain day in April , the Government are right not to allow many hours of debate on the first few clauses so that subsequent clauses are rushed through without sufficient consideration . |
| 22 | As the event was filmed on a hot day in June Harry has to prepare a batch of duplicates , which awaited their call in the cool of the fruit room . |
| 23 | Do n't ask me now , ask me on a rainy day in London . ’ |
| 24 | On a rainy day in Clones ’ James has recorded the song with the three other members of his band ‘ Devlin ’ and the first cut has already sold out . |
| 25 | ON a windy day in September , 1,000 delegates and members of the Catholic Women 's League arrived at York University for National Council 1992 , hosted by Middlesbrough Branch . |
| 26 | Then , on a sunny day in April , when the bees were visiting the hedgerows and the robins were flying back and forth with their beaks full of moss and feathers , she came down from Roscarrock Hall humming to herself without a serious thought in her head — when suddenly , as she rounded a corner , there was Tristram , his face sun-tanned , his shirt open and his dark brown hair thick and tangled round his face . |
| 27 | Stan Weatherall and ‘ Darkie ’ A. Harrison paddled their two-man canoe from Salen down the broad , rocky loch Sunart into the open sea on a clear day in February 1941 . |
| 28 | Dick Hansen on a cold day in February 1992 , flying his P-40 for the first time . |
| 29 | Again in the same area , but from the canal bank and this time we have none other than Great Western 3440 ‘ City of Truro ’ making its way from York to Didcot and diverted onto the GC on a miserable day in April 1989 . |