Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 2 | Everything cooks very slowly in a slo-cooker because the heating element is extremely gentle and costs no more to use than leaving a light bulb switched on for a day ( a few pence ) . |
| 3 | Ask if you can come down for a day or two . |
| 4 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 5 | Diane locked herself in her bedroom and would n't come down for a day because she was afraid of her father 's anger . |
| 6 | Firms would invite favoured clients or business associates down for a day at Sandwich , either as a reward for past favours rendered or in the hope that the goodwill created would lubricate some future deal . |
| 7 | ‘ Last Tuesday Nellie , my wife , had to go to hospital and they kept her in for a day and a night for eye tests . |
| 8 | Cos I 've let myself in for a day of temping . |
| 9 | PUPILS at a Middlesbrough school welcomed the Bishop of Whitby into their classrooms when he called in for a day 's visit . |
| 10 | but a more intricate type of operation , where you 've got to be in for a day , they 're not |
| 11 | were , were dispatched in about a day ! |
| 12 | I mean he 's such a good son in law to me , he really is , I mean he , he , he 'll help Pete with any thing , especially when they lived here , he 'll help Peter with any thing and erm , he 's very , very good to Deb , he get 's in after a days work , he does the shopping and housework , look 's after the cats which he does n't particularly like |
| 13 | That 's what I 'm saying , they need , they need just a little , in fact we do here you could argue , er , I feel that all the elements there are of a turning into something a bit ugly , I think , I think they were very quick to drop those statues down , now I know , I know the fellow who in , who set up the K G B could have been the most popular bloke in the Soviet Union , but nonetheless , er he was down within a day , I hear this morning that Yeltsin 's talking about border changes and quite frankly they 're moving too quick and Gorbachev at least was providing a bit of restraint , and I think it , they want to think in terms of decade . |
| 14 | I may go through for a day you know . |
| 15 | I may go through for a day you know . |
| 16 | For — contrary to the legend that it was all thought through in a day — this theory was worked out in three main stages over the next half year . |
| 17 | Morag and Mary were two such women and we never ceased to wonder at the amount of work they got through in a day . |
| 18 | I would just like to know how much real work that young man gets through in a day . |
| 19 | It makes far more sense to do two for the first day , then you can judge how many you can get through in a day from those two . |
| 20 | Increasing the amount of interview you get through in a day ? |
| 21 | The case was not contested , so the court proceedings were over in a day . |
| 22 | All Over in a Day |
| 23 | ‘ The Bamford Hunt always gathers in the Market Square on Boxing Day and after downing a glass or two of something sustaining , moves off for a day 's sport , watched by the local populace . |
| 24 | On the Saturday before our departure our group was sent off for a day 's grape picking at Puyloubier , the rest home for injured and retired former legionnaires , in the foothills of Provence , about two hours ' drive from Aubagne . |
| 25 | ‘ So we 're bunking off for a day or two . |
| 26 | ‘ Clare 's seeing Sam and Josh off for a day on the speedboat . |
| 27 | Ski survey could n't resist , and sent Tessa Coker off for a day 's coaching with Developments at Profiles Ski Centre . |
| 28 | The reason there is not a report is that Coun Terrans 's jump was called off for a day , perhaps because parchute jumps and mid-air collisions , even of a mock variety , are not a good match . |
| 29 | There 's nothing worse than setting off on a day 's walking after a cold sleepless night when you feel as though you 've been trussed up in a straight jacket . |
| 30 | Around the south of Ithaka , stop off at a day anchorage for lunch and a swim , then into Port Vathi , capital of Ithaka . |