Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a day [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , once up there the temptation to carry on is too strong , so choose a day early in the summer if you have no will-power to stave off the seduction of the tops . |
| 2 | You not got a day off ? |
| 3 | He had to be fifty , but he did not look a day over thirty-five , an illusion helped by his lopsided boyish grin that was so very full of charm . |
| 4 | Hours lost , days lost , weeks , months … it 's a pity that we did not have a day together to mull & muse … however , 't was lovely to see you , to see you , lovely . |
| 5 | If the idea of popping a PC or a printer into your shopping trolley alongside the jam , teabags and toilet paper appeals to you , why not try a day out to one of the PC World superstores that are cropping up on the outskirts of London ? |
| 6 | Oh and you would you would just get a day off for the for the funeral if it was a near relative to you . |
| 7 | In the meantime , they 're advised not to take a day off sick unless it 's absolutely necessary . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , I 've not planned a day ashore this time . |
| 9 | Well I do n't know whether you go home from boarding school , you probably just have a day off , I do n't know , I have n't been to boarding school . |
| 10 | And he said that he thinks every DSA she always has a day off on her birthday , this man did . |
| 11 | It 's two years since my … er … incident and you 've hardly had a day off ever since — you 've fussed around me like a mother hen . |
| 12 | You 'd rather have a day out at York racecourse than at Headingley if truth were known , would n't you ? |
| 13 | This has now become a day when children are given sweets , titbits and fruit . |
| 14 | She could just about manage a day away from London . |
| 15 | Apart from that one time when Gloria went off instead to cheer the King , Dot could n't remember a day when they had n't been to visit whatever hospital he was in . |
| 16 | ‘ I can honestly say you do n't look a day over twenty-five . ’ |
| 17 | The star 's penchant for nymphet flesh is a matter of record yet the actresses chosen to portray these girls are all individuals who do n't look a day under 25 . |
| 18 | ‘ My dear , ’ he said , ‘ you do n't look a day under eight . ’ |
| 19 | A baker who has n't had a day off sick in three quarters of a century is still slaving over a hot stove at the age of ( 87 ) eighty-seven . |
| 20 | With all the flowers- and the birds- and the presence of the Sea , the purity & brightness of your own heart could surely take a day nearly perfect . |
| 21 | Yeah the week after that week I should n't have a day off |
| 22 | We 've been together now for 18 years and it do n't seem a day too long , but I can see there does come a time when it 's good for mother and child to view one another from a distance . |
| 23 | THEY 'VE been together now for 25 years … and it do n't seem a day too much . |
| 24 | It wo n't come a day too soon for cyclists : |
| 25 | This site then flared a day later . |
| 26 | He could hear his father 's words now : ‘ Thomas Arnold Reynolds … if you walk out on me , there will never again come a day when you 'll be welcome in my house . ’ |
| 27 | If preferred the lemon treacle tart can be completely cooked a day ahead and reheated gently just before serving . |
| 28 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 29 | Working hard for no pay , never getting a day off and having no financial independence are the most common complaints . |
| 30 | This last the verderers thought the least likely course because the escape had been made nearer to the north of the depression than the south and it would therefore take a day longer to get round it on that side . |