Example sentences of "[prep] a fine day " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came : a tight little group , guns in the crooks of their arms , chatting and laughing amongst themselves , like hunters strolling up to view the bag after a fine day in the field . |
| 2 | Being tight-fisted individuals we by-passed the fee-paying nature trail through the woods and crossed the beck to join a Green Lane that led pleasantly back to Clapham and the end of a fine day 's trek through Yorkshire 's classic karst and pavement country . |
| 3 | If you leave it in the aircraft in the hope of a fine day , make sure it is fully charged . |
| 4 | But by the time Rachel arrived at the factory gates the October sunshine was doing its best to struggle through with more than a promise of a fine day to come . |
| 5 | They 'd hope for a fine day . |
| 6 | So we have to hope for a fine day for this on Sunday , obviously . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Who 's talking of dying on a fine day like this ? ’ |
| 9 | The power station is clearly visible on a fine day . |
| 10 | A banquet-hall deserted — Broadstone Station would henceforth be only that to thousands for whom it had for long been associated with happiness — the happiness of the day 's work , the happiness of companionship , the happiness of simply being alive on a fine day . |
| 11 | But you can see for yourself , on a fine day like this , it 's a nice sight . ’ |
| 12 | Even on a fine day , the corridor could be so dark that the effect was like walking through a tunnel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Play Gorleston on a fine day and you 'll find no more delightful holiday course offering such midweek green fee value . |
| 15 | Paul stared at the reeds in the narrow river ; the Clyde wound here like a country stream , and up the grass incline women hung out washing or spread it to dry on a fine day . |
| 16 | As I sat looking up at this magnificent bird , especially on a fine day , I used to feel a terrific urge to see a bird of prey flying to a lure , which I 'd read about in my falconry books . |
| 17 | Ardnamurchan Point , on a fine day , more than justifies the long and tortuous journey necessary to see its beautiful seascapes , the best of all . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , aye , with a bit of luck , on a fine day . |
| 19 | There is a fitness to everything at Templeton , an order and a purpose , from the disposition of the crops and bridles in the tack room ( on a fine day Mrs Guest rises at 6.30 am to ride her horse , Opium , for an hour ) and the ranks of Maxwell riding boots in their bright felt CZG monogrammed pockets , to the vegetable gardens with their improbably neat and weedless battalions of vegetables , the closets with legions of colour-spectrum cashmeres and the table-top still lifes with flotillas of eighteenth-century snuff boxes . |
| 20 | Quite apart from the deafening thunder of the falls , and the awe-inspiring sight of their dramatic descent , the effect can be sheer magic on a fine day ; as the sunlight catches the spray in flight , and transforms it into an elusive pattern of shapes and colours that suggest in painting the Impressionism of Manet or the mists of Corot , or in music , the evocative nuances of Debussy . |
| 21 | On a fine day , it is a pleasant walk from the centre of the town taking from 15 to 20 minutes . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's a grand sight on a fine day , ’ he observed quietly as they stared out over the grey water . |
| 23 | Banking on a fine day |