Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France ! |
| 2 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 3 | The log is filled in every day by protection officers detailing their duties . |
| 4 | Four other girls , that 's right and of course there were housemaids there to do the work and er yes housemaids and er and er you know and in the , in the kitchen , you see , there was the chef and er a cook , the kitchen maid and er a young man , a boy , well just left school to scrub the tables down and do the floors and that sort of thing and er and whi and er while I , of course I had to go down every day to type , to see what the chef said , what was on the menu and type it , type out the menus , you see , that was one of my jobs and er and if let me think , yes there was quite a number of staff , that 's just in the kitchen |
| 5 | He er , Hugh and I used to come up every day do what we could , you see , in those days if you had a stroke you had to lay there till you died . |
| 6 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 7 | In doing so , we have to come out every day and , once we 're out , it 's on our record for life . |
| 8 | She looks out every day for a knight who 'll ride by , so she can unbraid her hair . |
| 9 | The grown-ups found a café , ordered raki , and found out the day of the week from the waiter . |
| 10 | The Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 came down the day after the fourth anniversary of the Lockerbie bomb — allegedly planted by two Libyans — which killed 270 . |
| 11 | The typical interviewee profile of the ‘ recreational user ’ is that of ‘ dabbling ’ at weekends , usually sharing a ‘ bag ’ with a friend , then gradually filling in the days in between until they are all taken up by heroin use . |
| 12 | I am just filling in the days , she thought — until Edmund returns . |
| 13 | Or nearly nothing : where before you could book for lunch by telephone in a minute or two , this time it took half a dozen tries spread over a day and a bit , and I finally had to strike higher up . |
| 14 | When he finally arrived in Calcutta he was not of course allowed to stay with us at the Sisters , which puzzled you children , but he stayed with the Oxford Mission Fathers and came over every day to see us , until a kindly businessman heard about us and took us along to his palatial house until we could decide what next to do . |
| 15 | SOAKING UP THE DAY OUT |
| 16 | He woke up every day and went to work at the ice-cream parlour , but he began to hate the taste , the sight , the very thought of it . |
| 17 | I noted the time they woke up every day , the places they fed , the food they ate , the time of year they made their nests , and so on . |
| 18 | Yes , I think I do find housework monotonous , if you think one has to get up , make the beds every day , wash up every day , one should dust every day — I mean it is monotonous , is n't it ? |
| 19 | Fine , attribute it to your aftershave for all I care , as long as you recognize that opportunities as encouraging as those you now face do n't crop up every day . |
| 20 | I think I mean , it 's something , a pension mortgage is something that does n't crop up every day . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , my advice to him would be , do n't give up the day job . |
| 22 | do n't give up the day job Nigel … not that he 'd want to … red five flies again at Donington Park on sunday … |
| 23 | He had told them he had things to do at home , had saved up the day for solitude . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's brilliant , he 's happy , he wakes up every day joyous and he never holds a grudge for more than about three minutes . |
| 25 | He came back a day or two later and they told him it definitely had been available before nineteen thirty-nine . ’ |
| 26 | It has missed only one edition since the civil war started and even that came out a day late . |
| 27 | This comprised a moonlit cable car ride up the mountains to a creaky farmhouse for cheese fondue , heady wine and oompah-pah music — the perfect way to round off a day 's skiing . |
| 28 | A load of schoolchildren going on a day out . |
| 29 | All other things which are done instead of talking are a waste of time , are being used as excuses to delay the whole process , and will bear no fruit whatsoever , except the killing which is going on every day … |
| 30 | With activities going on every day and most evenings we hardly ever saw our two . |