Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 2 | I 'm terrified we might see Khan or Greenslade on a day when everyone has decided to follow Mother Walsh 's directions about placing the feet on the ground without damaging the old insect life . |
| 3 | Dobson came on because Waddle was tormenting poor Alan Wright on a day that looked to belong to Wednesday when John Harkes let rip . |
| 4 | June temperatures hit the south of England for a day , with London in the 70s . |
| 5 | And er then er these two erm er Then when we used to when we was the young you used to be able to go down to Skeggie for a day on train for two and six . |
| 6 | Recently he took wife Karron across the Atlantic on Concorde for a day 's shopping in New York in a white Rolls Royce . |
| 7 | I felt like Von Richtofen joyriding Concorde for a day . |
| 8 | She says she 's to be in Leningrad for a day or two — she 's on location at Lake Baikal — to meet Mrs Reagan on her flying visit to the Hermitage . |
| 9 | The gold-winning hurdler and fiance Jon Biggs will follow a morning marriage in Florida with a day of games like volleyball , the groom told Hello ! magazine . |
| 10 | When a sound start was then followed by a sparkling 80 from Richards , a classical 84 from Hooper and a thumping 72 from Marshall , with even Ambrose making 43 , we knew exactly what was what , and when Richards declared on the fourth evening at 448 for 9 , leaving England with a day plus 51 overs to survive , there were probably not many people who thought they would make it . |
| 11 | If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other . |
| 12 | It was down the pasture near Lartington on a day during the last war , when the weather was very bad and I was going for the bus to Barnard Castle . |
| 13 | They would load it for Pelham Street after a day 's work in the factory , drive there and back in a night , and report for work as usual the next morning . |
| 14 | Having been reduced now to travelling on foot , he could not make the return journey to Bristol in a day , and Sara too often found herself left lonely and uneasy in a cottage whose attractions were not increased by the coming of winter , or by neighbours who were ‘ a little too tattling and inquisitive ’ . |
| 15 | Sadly , the rest of the EP still sounds like The Sugarcubes on a day off . |
| 16 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 17 | Boys and girls from all over the UK will join Kristian for a day in London , and will discuss how best to encourage people to re-cycle their steel cans . |
| 18 | ( So much so that when , at the 1989 party conference , a delegate got up to speak in defence of Sunday as a day of worship , he was met with a chorus of boos from shopkeepers on the floor . ) |
| 19 | Increased leisure opportunities have meant that people can take their leisure during the week and leave Sunday as a day of rest . |
| 20 | In return , Wihtred 's laws , issued at Bearsted on 6 September 695 , freed the Church in Kent from taxation and concerned themselves extensively with religious matters , pronouncing against irregular marriage unions , non-observance of Sunday as a day of rest , and continuing pagan worship . |
| 21 | you can go over to Africa on a day trips from down there , but you have to have a full passport you ca n't |
| 22 | This was followed in October by a day in Croydon on ‘ Library Services to the Primary School Child ’ , with a guest speaker from the Language Unit . |
| 23 | skimmed flat stones across Black Moss on a day |
| 24 | Its hero has lost wife , mistress and even the cause he fights in , since the war against dictatorship lost most of its point for Waugh on a day in June 1941 when Hitler invaded Russia . |
| 25 | All three came in with two under par rounds of 73 over the Royal Lytham and St Annes on a day when only eight players bettered a demanding par . |
| 26 | In Yule 's book , a reporter comments that if you interview Puttnam on a day when he is depressed , you will hear all about it . |
| 27 | I could try reassuring them that over in Holland , the half-century is toasted as the age of wisdom , that women are dubbed Sarah ( the biblical matriarch ) and men Abraham for a day of high celebration . |
| 28 | You do n't miss a day off school just because you 're going to France for a day |
| 29 | The region 's motorway network puts the heavily populated industrial heartland of Britain within a day 's drive of Liverpool . |
| 30 | Indeed , apart from the occasional sortie to The Galleon , our chief diversion was to read — books brought from home , or bought in London or Oxford on a day off , as there was in Wolverton neither bookshop nor library . |