Example sentences of "[to-vb] it a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 2 | John and Maureen decided to call it a day . |
| 3 | By 1800 hours we are able to call it a day . |
| 4 | Though he rejoined the race a few minutes later , Albers , who won the opening round of the series at Donington , was forced to call it a day four laps later . |
| 5 | Polls suggested that up to one in four Conservative MPs wanted her to go before the next general election : growing numbers of backbenchers were prepared openly to declare that the time had come for her to call it a day . |
| 6 | So he agreed to call it a day . |
| 7 | Two years and two back operations later he has been forced to call it a day . |
| 8 | A desperate mix of pride and masochism would have kept me wallowing around until dark , but I was forcefully persuaded to call it a day . |
| 9 | VIZ magazine creator Chris Donald is right when he says it might be time to call it a day . |
| 10 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 11 | Chapman says : ‘ I often wonder what will become of Forest when Brian Clough decides to call it a day . |
| 12 | Martina set to call it a day |
| 13 | Mandy Yachad and Mark Rushmere made half centuries and when both sides agreed to call it a day the Invitation XI had reached 129–1 . |
| 14 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 15 | THE party 's over , it 's time to call it a day — but Catherine Zeta Jones was having such a perfick time she just did n't notice . |
| 16 | He decided to call it a day after doctors told him he had lost the other testicle . |
| 17 | His well-being is of even higher importance to Scotland now that Peter Dods , such an admirable understudy with 23 caps , had decided to call it a day . |
| 18 | Although we broke even , we could not pay our wages and decided to call it a day ’ . |
| 19 | When I decide to call it a day , they 'll stop too . ’ |
| 20 | Whitlock had wanted to remain on duty for the banquet at the United Nations that evening but Kolchinsky had told him to call it a day . |
| 21 | She decided to call it a day . |
| 22 | By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day . |
| 23 | By five o'clock , just as Merrill was about to call it a day , she was offered the lease on a small flat in a pleasant , tree-lined avenue . |
| 24 | ‘ The director 's finally decided to call it a day , ’ he said . |
| 25 | They had decided to call it a day , that was all . |
| 26 | For health reasons , 69-year-old decided to call it a day on March 19 after working for five years in the semi-moist processing section . |
| 27 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 28 | But surgeons were forced to call it a day because they could n't find the right tools for the job . |
| 29 | Then Wyllie just kept thumping the ball downfield and soon time ran out on Musselburgh , whose only crumb of comfort is that their coach , Raymond Clark , who had planned to call it a day , is now likely to stay on next season . |
| 30 | The Indians ran out of arrows — they decided to call it a day |