Example sentences of "[num] day a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're trying to make our course into a three day a week . |
| 2 | One day a specialist will be able to track the flows of capital associated with the whole episode . |
| 3 | But one day a girl at school invited me to her home , and we began to see more of each other , became friends . |
| 4 | " One day a neighbour opposite came to tell me my little boa was hanging over the other side of the railings on our landing . |
| 5 | But one day a row blew up . |
| 6 | One day a subaltern got into a first-class railway carriage and found sitting there a ‘ coloured gentleman ’ . |
| 7 | One day a child came home from Sunday School declaring that he had just been hearing about how Moses crossed the Red Sea with tanks and Bailey bridges . |
| 8 | The master of the horse , Kambiz Atabai , later told the story of how one day a lieutenant and his men were caught in a hostile crowd at the university . |
| 9 | One day a policeman stopped a Lapp who was striding across it . |
| 10 | One day a trunk-load of winter woollens turned up , a gift from Johannesburg where a news item in the local paper had inspired a ladies ' circle to start knitting . |
| 11 | But still the likely reality is that Britain will be increasingly demoted by Washington to its proper station — a second-rank nation , perhaps one day a third-rank nation , whose importance is only as part of the European Community . |
| 12 | One day a story was received about a betting coup at Dagenham Greyhound Track . |
| 13 | And er I can remember one day a driver , Len his name was and he er he said to the inspector , oh he says er I 've been through Corfe Junction he said at sixty miles an hour ! |
| 14 | And one day a lady came from the clinic . |
| 15 | But one day a magician accidentally spilt silver dust all over them , and they came alive . |
| 16 | One day a boy who had been told to wash his hands said , ‘ Shanti 's lucky . |
| 17 | one day a Boy had a imvertashun to go to a party in Sawth a Merica on the way a crocodil sad Hello Boy do you wont to come Friends yes sad the Boy do you want to come to a Party with my yes sad the crocodil comon then ill calle you Croc do you like that name yes i do What is your name my name is dafydd you can koll my dafy Comon then When they came to the partty a nother boy said helo crocodile and the crocodile said my name is croc okay said the boy croc come and eat okay Boy So he did . |
| 18 | Finally , one day a boy called Charlie bawled out , ‘ Nigger ! ’ at me and I chased him in a fury . |
| 19 | One day a farmer went with his oxen to plough his field . |
| 20 | One day a bloke came in wearing a rubber mac , a real Wimbledon Common regular by the look of him . |
| 21 | One day a statue will be erected somewhere on O'Connell Street to bear testament to this fact . |
| 22 | One day a member of staff found a man smoking in the girls ' dining room . |
| 23 | One day a guard came in with a bunch of roses . |
| 24 | Because er most of the year we tell our kids not to talk to strangers , and then one day a year you send the little so and sos out to knock on peoples doors to ask for money er and sweets and things like that . |
| 25 | For this one day a year , the usually gridlocked streets of New York were closed to traffic and lined with nearly three million people who proved that when the craziness and complexity is forgotten for 24 hours , they can be among the most decent and welcoming supporters of the human spirit they were witnessing and cheering in the runners thronging their streets . |
| 26 | Everything goes smoothly , the syndicate collecting their financial reward , until one day a man appears in the gallery where the first exhibition was held claiming to be Hopkin . |
| 27 | ‘ One day a man knocked on my door , and asked to be painted in a nearby churchyard , ‘ to symbolise the desolation of my life ’ , he said . |
| 28 | Then one day a man shot one of the prostitutes , Rosita . |
| 29 | Then one day a couple of months ago he returned , just as I was leaving assuming I 'd missed him . |
| 30 | One day a cable shorted and they were electrocuted . |