Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] 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 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
4 | Ask if you can come down for a day or two . |
5 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
6 | Diane locked herself in her bedroom and would n't come down for a day because she was afraid of her father 's anger . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Several factories in Northamptonshire , anticipating the drift to the County Ground for the mid-week game , closed down for the day , but in Northampton itself factory workers were allowed the afternoon off only if they made up for it in overtime . |
9 | Gunn was in splendid form : it was just past 7 o'clock , he was the 19th caddie to get his name down for the day and , almost certainly , he would work two jobs before nightfall . |
10 | Most businesses , including much of Hollywood , have shut down for the day . |
11 | I told her it 's my wife come down for the day … ’ |
12 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
13 | Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton . |
14 | ‘ Last Tuesday Nellie , my wife , had to go to hospital and they kept her in for a day and a night for eye tests . |
15 | Cos I 've let myself in for a day of temping . |
16 | PUPILS at a Middlesbrough school welcomed the Bishop of Whitby into their classrooms when he called in for a day 's visit . |
17 | but a more intricate type of operation , where you 've got to be in for a day , they 're not |
18 | If the candidate seems settled in for the day stand up and help him/her with their coat , or begin to walk towards the door . |
19 | Let's get inside , the rain 's set in for the day . ’ |
20 | As I left the next shift was settling in for the day , writing up diaries , reading novels and brewing up endless cups of tea . |
21 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
22 | And is that for children who are living there or just go in for the day ? |
23 | Just go in for the day till their parents go to work I think . |
24 | In for the day that is |
25 | But if we do n't get a good response to this I might stick it in for the day in The Post . |
26 | All right then well thank you Simon that 's a broad thank you and and thank you very much for your money as well a hundred and fifty quid he gave that 's loads of dosh er to come in for the day as well and I 'm going to take you out for a a nice lunch in a bit when he can wonder around have a poke around everywhere this afternoon too so should be all right should n't it that ? |
27 | I may go through for a day you know . |
28 | I may go through for a day you know . |
29 | Ragged children wearing a semblance of black and white uniform skip along the pavements on their way to school ; by midday their schooling will be over for the day and they will start work alongside their parents , or engage in various enterprises from shoe shining to the selling of postcards . |
30 | The revolution-that-might-have-been was over for the day . |