Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key is to be prepared to wait a day or two if necessary , which is no bad thing as the North Rim is a beautiful spot in its own right . |
| 2 | In Russia customers queue for goods ; in this fashionable men 's clothing store , if we adopt the right perspective , we can see rows and rows of shirts queuing up in wait for someone willing to spend a day 's wages on a monogrammed polo shirt . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyone able to spare a day during July and August will make a lot of difference between putting a limit on numbers or keeping the doors open for all children . ’ |
| 4 | If you take the bus to the Foot of the Walk you will be able to spend a day full of interest and surprises , including some excellent places to eat . |
| 5 | On a date chosen by each school , pupils will be able to spend a day in ‘ civvies ’ in return for a donation to the Deaf Self Help Society , of which Julian is patron . |
| 6 | A combination of pressure , staff shortages and the feeling that no-one is listening to them makes many more inclined to take a day off . |
| 7 | And as Doctor Beri manages a brief break in the staff rest room … his shoes tell their own tale of how sole destroying a day like this can be . |
| 8 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 9 | I was , then , both surprised and disappointed to discover a day before the visit that Sir James would be coming alone . |
| 10 | The passage includes a section with the words : ‘ The floating pier was always packed with people , anxious to spend a day away from Liverpool 's heavily polluted air . ’ |
| 11 | There 's about fifty Europeans on the island — including Americans — and there 's plenty of men anxious to do a bit of gardening , or women ready to earn a day 's wages doing the laundry — you saw them at work — or sewing . |