Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Day at leisure , or hire a bike for an extra day . |
| 2 | Barton was keeping the info for a rainy day and he would ring his secretary in the morning and ask her to look in the paper 's library for any cuttings on Amaranth Wilikins . |
| 3 | Just as I had n't minded when asked if I would like to take care of Jeffrey Bernard for a few days while he was in Sydney to promote the play about himself , Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell , which is currently playing here . |
| 4 | We realized that each of us would be a big story for a few days , but that would pass and then we 'd be able to get on with the real work of getting to know our families and friends again . |
| 5 | Rising costs and growing demand means the group must expand to survive , but church elders are refusing permission for an extra day . |
| 6 | and there 'll be talk of another Grand National in Gloucestershire on Sunday when David Nicholson opens up his new stables at Jackdaws Castle for the very first time … they 'll be off and running there at half past ten … and its a sure winner for a good day out |
| 7 | We went to Weston-super-Mare for a few days . |
| 8 | She wanted to get all of the washing out , then cross her fingers for a dry day with a bit of sunshine and a drying wind . |
| 9 | Although the females ' ranges are smaller than those of individual males they overlap those of several of them and may therefore turn up in more than one male community ; females in oestrus range widely , consorting with a male for a few days . |
| 10 | On Monday she 's going back to mum for a few days . |
| 11 | When King George died in 1952. and Queen Mary died in 1961 , Edward returned to Windsor for a few days . |
| 12 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
| 13 | These would be my iron rations for a hard day 's cruising the streets in Armstrong . |
| 14 | So , after luxuriating in its hair shirt for a few days , the City would have sold sterling anyway . |
| 15 | Indeed , the primitive matchlocks could only be discharged a maximum of sixteen times during a whole day of battle . |
| 16 | The King 's Men had to have a new play for a special day like that . |
| 17 | The main tenets of this were nationalisation of foreign concessions , expropriation of large landed estates ( although it was not specified to whom they should be transferred , an omission reflecting the ambivalent attitudes regarding the role of the peasantry , which proved one of the most controversial issues in the debates between Latin American and Soviet Marxisms ) , repudiation of the national debt , rejection of imperialist control over the economy , the fight for an eight-hour day and the ‘ stamping out of semi-slave-like conditions of labour ’ . |
| 18 | Ken was sponsored to raise money for a local day centre for the mentally ill . |
| 19 | Every few days each officer can expect to take his turn on the office duty rota which will keep him away from the field for a complete day . |
| 20 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 21 | Starting with three 1½ × ¼in strips of ash for each I intended to steam the strips , clamp to the forms for a few days , and then glue and reclamp . |
| 22 | On Wednesday County Coun. Colin Grant , who represents the Catterick area , said he had been alerting the Army , parish councils and schools to the apparent threat of about 140 additional lorry movements one every four minutes for a ten-hour day through the garrison . |
| 23 | The body of a young climber has been found in the Scottish Highlands after a three day search . |
| 24 | Lovers of good beer — well deserved of course after a hard day 's exercise — wo n't have to go far for a fine pint . |
| 25 | If there is no luck after a few days or the child is showing antagonism to the potty then the parent should leave the training for a few more weeks . |
| 26 | One night — I think it was the night before Christmas Eve — we had just returned to the cottage after a hard day next door doing some of the ‘ few finishing-off jobs ’ Nigel had earlier specified . |
| 27 | He needed their support after a hard day 's work in often uncomfortable conditions . |
| 28 | In some cases , this needs to be relieved by placing a drain ( catheter ) in the bladder for a few days . |
| 29 | Ill just go out of the house without a word , and stay at my club for a few days . |
| 30 | Twenty four foreign students from the Darlington College of Technology , Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College and Polam Hall met the Darlington Rotary Club for an International Day lunch . |