Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it was known that Terry Gill was wanted for questioning , a young constable who knew him , all bright eyed and bushy tailed , pointed out that his van had been parked in the car-park all day within fifty yards of the Incident Room . |
| 2 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 3 | Many 40-year-olds are considered over the hill these days , so what work can the oldies hope to get ? |
| 4 | He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything . |
| 5 | There , he and thirty other children rolled around the floor all day , without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing . |
| 6 | Aristide 's inauguration on Feb. 7 was preceded by the deaths several days earlier of four boys and one member of staff in an arson attack on the Family Is Life orphanage in Port-au-Prince , an institution founded by Aristide . |
| 7 | Very few horses are seen around the village these days but Swanland was a self-sufficient village , catering for all needs , with a blacksmith , shoemaker , tailor , wheelwright and undertaker . |
| 8 | Every movement seemed to be performed in a trance that day . |
| 9 | Pentecost did not only mean the offering of the firstfruits to God ( and what remarkable firstfruits of the Spirit were offered to the Lord that day as three thousand people believed , were baptised , and joined the company of the disciples praising God in the temple ) : first-century Jews would also have recalled the giving of the law on Mount Sinai ( see Jubilees 1:1 , 6:17 ) . |
| 10 | Having finished loading , Ram stopped to scratch the back of his head , which was rather itchy , and then his elbow , which had been bitten by a mosquito some days earlier but which still itched occasionally . |
| 11 | If you were married to me I would n't expect you to be bound to the house all day , every day . |
| 12 | She sat hunched on the bed all day , silent and smoking . |
| 13 | Gunfire could be heard in the city all day , she said , but the violence escalated late in the evening . |
| 14 | Stuck behind a desk all day is n't my idea of fun , Sergei . ’ |
| 15 | She is abandoned in the home all day , unable to communicate with her teenage daughter , Camille , and her only proper friendship is with a neighbour , Constance . |
| 16 | In its heyday in the 1820s , 80 horsedrawn coaches passed through the town each day . |
| 17 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 18 | He suddenly remembered that Stephen Blufton 's information about drug smuggling was due to be put to the test that day . |
| 19 | SUCH is the alarming speed with which pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream these days that one moment you can be an underground guitar hero from Seattle , next you 're on The Clothes Show . |
| 20 | The victims are thought to have been killed with a hammer several days ago . |
| 21 | The group 's remit was to credit back all unwanted items to stores : to give the storekeeper a clear list of who could order materials : to identify what key stores items should be kept on site : and to monitor every item received by the plant each day . |
| 22 | Neither is it always wet ; again , the forests of Queensland can at times be very dry ( and the tops — the canopy — where the leaves are held in the sun all day , must endure conditions that would stress a cactus ) . |