Example sentences of "[prep] a day in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be a bit like choosing to go and spend all Sunday afternoon discussing skin diseases with your 75-year-old deaf aunty in Coatbridge , instead of taking up your boyfriend 's offer of a day in bed at an expensive country house hotel , drinking champagne while he gives you a bit of a seeing to . |
| 2 | Britain 's oldest and biggest investment trust invited the lucky investor , Fiona Saunders , and fiance Graham Grant , up for a day in London from their home on the Isle of Wight . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Cost obviously plays a big part-we are more likely to support a car load for a day nearby , than a person for a day in Carlisle or Penzance ’ . |
| 5 | In 1717 he began buying land in Kent and the city of London , which eventually placed the family among the largest landowners in the county ; it was said to be possible to walk for a day in north-west Kent without leaving Page property . |
| 6 | Be King for a day in Yul 's £800 Siamese shirt |
| 7 | Interestingly there is inevitably more coherence in the primary child 's day because one or two adults experience the same things — indeed they are the conductors of the total experience which is planned for a day in detail within the week and the year . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you think your mother would let you go out with me for a day in Newcastle ? ’ |
| 9 | Waasen lies at the mouth of the Meien valley and for the motorist with a day in hand to spare it can be an ideal starting point for the famed Three Alpine Passes round trip . |
| 10 | Bad when we meet someone at the station , but unbearable when we are seeing them off ; not present when we are departing ourselves , but unbearable when arriving in London , if only from a day in Brighton . ’ |
| 11 | Around her , talking , laughing , enjoying the soul food she 's prepared , is the assembled Cherry House tribe : Cameron , Tyson , Charlene , Moki ( who 's fiftyish with cropped , silver-grey hair and tortoise-shell glasses ) , Eric ( ‘ the man about the house who keeps the place vibesy ’ ) , and , returning late from a day in Copenhagen , Naima , a nine-year-old with blonde , wavy hair whose quite startling beauty is off-set by glasses and a long-limbed , pre-adolescent gawkiness . |
| 12 | On 2 March , she improved it to 7.68 and , two days later , broke it twice in a day in Seville — 7.66 and 7.63 . |
| 13 | Michael Roberts rode six winners in a day in Britain for the first time on Saturday . |
| 14 | Finally , on Saturday 23 June , the Wordsworths left Alfoxden , and went for the last time down the wooded lane through the deer park , past the beech trees and hollies where , on a day in March , they had sheltered from a hail storm , past Christopher Tricky 's hovel near the dog pound , and past the ‘ loud Waterfall ’ , whose sound would always echo in their memories . |
| 15 | They forgathered again at Castell Coch near Pool , on a day in March , Owen and his twelve picked men . |
| 16 | Mayday on a day in May |
| 17 | On a day in autumn Ruth told her aunt , ‘ They say the cholera 's on the wane now . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Lunchtime on a day in June and hardly a wind : |
| 20 | Lunchtime on a day in June , |
| 21 | After the visit to Torness , the visitors had a full day in Edinburgh , including a tour of the Castle and Royal Mile , followed by a day in Glasgow and sailing on Loch Lomond . |
| 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 . |