Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not one of them has a day 's experience of working in British industry . |
| 2 | and then what we would simply say is that , I mean a day is one point zero |
| 3 | No have I arranged a day with Sylvia but then I |
| 4 | ‘ But I got a day in The Chokey just the same . ’ |
| 5 | It was therefore with great irritation that I noticed a day or two later that they had all been moved back to the ‘ General Interest ’ section . |
| 6 | I recall a day when I was new to the sport and I recall too the smell when lightning struck the limestone cliff on which I was climbing . |
| 7 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 8 | Some days when I attend a day meeting I can start at 5am and finish at 9pm including travel . |
| 9 | It 's an apprenticeship and I get a day off each week to go to school . ’ |
| 10 | Occasionally I spent a day in London , always returning at night to keep my mother company . |
| 11 | I spent a day with her family at Eastbourne — except that it was n't with her family , for I hardly met them . |
| 12 | In one Oxfordshire school in which I spent a day , I saw a nine year old begin a piece of descriptive writing at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 13 | So I went in there and I thought oh God , I mean I could , if you gave me , if I did a nice sketch and worked on it , if I spent a day a might |
| 14 | I remember a day in late spring when people looked anxiously towards the sky for signs of warmth . |
| 15 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |
| 16 | ‘ Can I have a day off tomorrow ? ’ |
| 17 | Could I have a day off ? |
| 18 | I took a day to go and fetch and Mid Wales , I had a lot of er of erm erm spruce er Norway , larches and . |
| 19 | Then I did a day 's course in bouncing choreography but never found time to create a routine . |
| 20 | I had a day off and when I came back there was a big trophy sitting there in the shop . |
| 21 | Lying in second place and sitting on a possible £3,000 I decided that two practice sessions were needed and on the Tuesday , a week before the match , I had a day off work ( I left Dek in charge of the shop — yet again ) and headed 70 miles down the M.1. to the canal to try to sort it out . |
| 22 | ‘ I have a Day Return ticket . ’ |
| 23 | I have other patients to care for ; I have a day ; I have a family ; I have … you know , I have a life ahead of me , and these things do come up often enough that I saw no contradiction to the … not only the needs of the patient but the final ending — what would happen would be the same . |
| 24 | Today is an Edinburgh holiday and so I have a day off — a good opportunity to catch up with various things , and the plumber is arriving shortly to re-seal my bath . |
| 25 | oh right , you got a day off ? |
| 26 | If you lose a day 's sailing or more , we pay you . |
| 27 | If you made a Day of the Dead cake at home you always hid a coin in it , and the person who found it was supposed to live for ever . |
| 28 | Why does she want a day in bed ? |
| 29 | I sent her the manuscript , and she appointed a day for me to come to tea and take it back . |
| 30 | Confronted with data of the following sort , an extract from a private diary only intended to remind the elderly writer of how she passed a day in January 1982 , the discourse analyst may not be able to proceed very far in his analysis . |