Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a day " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So like , you 've only got a day and a half have n't you ? |
| 2 | I 'm a Sunderland supporter who lives down here , I 've only had a day 's notice . |
| 3 | it usually , it only takes a day once they 've received it , if that 's alright ? |
| 4 | However , once up there the temptation to carry on is too strong , so choose a day early in the summer if you have no will-power to stave off the seduction of the tops . |
| 5 | ‘ They only live a day , ’ said a loony from the next table . |
| 6 | a great State will mean so many hours less work a day , and so much more pay a day . |
| 7 | Could our bodies glow red when we only have a day left so we could all sit down and wait comfortably and then when we snuff it we could just disappear . |
| 8 | You not got a day off ? |
| 9 | Most high flying executives , he told me , could not survive a day without a list in lieu of a memory . |
| 10 | ( 4 ) The period of 48 hours referred to in subsection ( 2 ) above shall not include a day which is a Sunday , Christmas Day , New Year 's Day , Good Friday , a bank holiday , or a public holiday , or a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning . |
| 11 | By the time he is up in the morning , I have already done a day 's work … |
| 12 | He had to be fifty , but he did not look a day over thirty-five , an illusion helped by his lopsided boyish grin that was so very full of charm . |
| 13 | Och i do n't know why they 're moving it down there , it 's already got a day unit on fifteen . |
| 14 | The West Highland line from Glasgow runs regularly and you can easily plan a day by the train timetable , unless of course you live in Ullapool . |
| 15 | Hours lost , days lost , weeks , months … it 's a pity that we did not have a day together to mull & muse … however , 't was lovely to see you , to see you , lovely . |
| 16 | Erm a little bit of steam around so you do get an impression that it 's erm you know , it 's alive and working obviously not doing a day 's work , but certainly being restored back to working condition . |
| 17 | I just needed a day 's recovery . |
| 18 | If the idea of popping a PC or a printer into your shopping trolley alongside the jam , teabags and toilet paper appeals to you , why not try a day out to one of the PC World superstores that are cropping up on the outskirts of London ? |
| 19 | Since December , the strip has not known a day of quiet : the clashes between the Israeli army and Palestinian demonstrators are fought in towns and villages as well as in the eight refugee camps . |
| 20 | Oh and you would you would just get a day off for the for the funeral if it was a near relative to you . |
| 21 | And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ . |
| 22 | If people lose employment for a day , they would normally lose a day 's pay . |
| 23 | In the meantime , they 're advised not to take a day off sick unless it 's absolutely necessary . |
| 24 | ‘ Look , I 've not planned a day ashore this time . |
| 25 | But erm certainly we were a lot worse off , cos we we were just earning a day rate , instead of any bonus you know we had no bonus at all . |
| 26 | Following the verdict Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane , Kahane 's son and a leader of his anti-Arab Kach party , vowed that Noseir would " not see a day without fear until his very last " . |
| 27 | Well I do n't know whether you go home from boarding school , you probably just have a day off , I do n't know , I have n't been to boarding school . |
| 28 | And he said that he thinks every DSA she always has a day off on her birthday , this man did . |
| 29 | Harriet , who had hardly had a day 's illness in her life — unless she counted a bad attack of shingles some years previously — had at first been inclined to ignore her husband 's remarks . |
| 30 | It 's two years since my … er … incident and you 've hardly had a day off ever since — you 've fussed around me like a mother hen . |