Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] day 's " in BNC.

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1 He was so fed up that he put another penny to the one earned for a whole day 's labour and went to the pub where he drowned his sorrows in a pint .
2 Dealers emerged from the first day 's sale of the Blackmer library gasping at the high prices .
3 The changed version appeared on the following day 's order paper .
4 The 57,000 boat people in Hong Kong are taxing the colony 's resources and nearly 90 per cent of new arrivals are unlikely to qualify as refugees , he said in the second day 's debate on the Queen 's speech .
5 Now half a crown in those days was a lot of money , you had to a full day 's work for half a crown , make no mistake on that .
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