Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I still used to pose on the bike for publicity purposes , ’ she 'd say archly over her tea and Eccles cakes , ‘ until the varicose veins started to show through me silver tights and Flaherty said I 'd better call it a day and let them find themselves another pin-up girl . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I only have one a day now , ’ Alice says . |
| 3 | The wise man in Proverbs twenty seven , he says , do not boast about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring forth . |
| 4 | And she was going in for eggs or something , said well I usually leave them a day or two in the winter cos it does n't hurt and she said she struggled and struggled with that door ! |
| 5 | It was time she also called it a day ; she would continue with the work she was doing after she 'd eaten . |
| 6 | These creatures probably killed him a day ago … ’ |
| 7 | But what about when she does eventually call it a day . |
| 8 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |
| 9 | ‘ We may as well call it a day now , though . |
| 10 | mid next week and then give you a day or so to look at it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It would do this twice more and then call it a day . |
| 13 | ‘ I would like to play through to the Canada tournament then call it a day , hopefully going out in a blaze of glory . ’ |