Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of nonsense is spoken about this every day . |
| 2 | I thought about this the day after Pike went crazy . |
| 3 | Vern Clarke , 19 , a London Underground maintenance worker , caused the trial to be aborted , held up court proceedings for half a day and cost the taxpayer more than £7,000 . |
| 4 | ‘ The thought of being in one for a week and unconscious for half a day would n't have appealed to me very much . |
| 5 | For many years , as a result of the reduction in the flow of the Painswick Stream coupled with the silting up of the mill pond , this had been used on a 50:50 basis with a gas engine , sufficient water only being available for half a day 's working . |
| 6 | Ireby is very pleasant , with a stream running alongside its only street , and the possibility of afternoon tea , but its attractions are not sufficient to engage attention for half a day . |
| 7 | Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic . |
| 8 | Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic . |
| 9 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 10 | His replacement travelled for four days by train for half a day 's climbing on the slate . |
| 11 | These phases should be short and not involve the parent being sulky for half a day . |
| 12 | The company has also agreed to pay for half a day 's training at its own centre . |
| 13 | Plan to take your team away for half a day or a day . |
| 14 | They 'd staked out Culley 's flat for half a day and most of the night . |
| 15 | Writing on an LCD does n't come naturally , and even 5.5lbs is heavy to carry around for half a day . |
| 16 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |
| 17 | And erm we erm when you got to about the third class I think you you was allowed to participate int he woodwork and metal er class , you used to go across for half a day a week . |
| 18 | People who are n't staying at the centre can book for half a day or day long activity sessions too . |
| 19 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |
| 20 | I do not see how the Asian and West Indian pupils that I am responsible for can take on English behaviour for half a day when they are at school and change to their culture when they are at home . |
| 21 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 22 | ’ The problem is that those files are stored in boxes in the basement and we normally ask for half a day 's notice . |
| 23 | ‘ I go up to London for half a day , get myself a job , and what do I find when I get home , eh ? |
| 24 | Diane Brewer is finally being treated at the Eldene Health Clinic , where Health officials have been forced to hire in a dentist for half a day a week . |
| 25 | Well anyway , I I 'll definitely go up for half a day a week you know . |
| 26 | The practical aftermath of death seems to stimulate his curiosity these days ; nothing urgent , mind you , just something that begins to get in your mind when you 're watching blood move in and out of your body for half the day . |
| 27 | Dr Benjamin Spock points out , however , that if an angry mother refrains from spanking she may show her irritation in other ways , for instance , by nagging the child for half the day or trying to make him feel deeply guilty . |
| 28 | Consequently James would be directing The Best of Friends for half the day and Re:Joyce for the other . |
| 29 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
| 30 | And one day there will be a case , one which even you will believe , of a sailor lost in a whale 's mouth and recovered from its belly ; maybe not after half a day , perhaps after only half an hour . |