Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] day [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 And they used to take about six loads a day you see .
2 There were no such thrills the day I visited the set of Dancing .
3 And erm so really three times a day I had to er make tea .
4 For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it .
5 A dozen times a day she pictured the woman with prematurely white hair who was now holding Angel to her breast , and she ached with longing to change places with her .
6 Equally , half a dozen times a day she felt again his hand on her , and she burned .
7 Readers will appreciate that even if a combination of Sgt Bilko and the Roux Brothers was running the Cookhouse , with only £1.43 to feed an adult with three meals a day it is not possible to challenge the Savoy Grill .
8 Now , yes I mean i i in , in terms of two thousand calories a day it , it s it seems to be six hundred and fifty , seven hundred calories , er seven hundred , right , now th th there are those who argue the hundred and fifty is starvation level .
9 If you start edging up to ten cups a day you will become over stimulated and your heart and circulatory system will be affected .
10 But then , I was ready ter do all o' those fings the day I said I 'd marry yer .
11 The mechanical ‘ skin ’ on this well had increased to greater than 100 after its workover and completion , which indicated that although the well was producing 10,000 barrels a day it could be many times more productive .
12 We were all getting fed up with it cos , having to stay on the gate five hours a day you know , three or four times a week .
13 For at least fifteen hours a day they get us from A to B and take our body weight .
14 had me up having four or five pints a day you know
15 ‘ At twenty miles a day we should reach Tam by February thirteenth , and if you 're not there by then , Geoff , we 'll be there without you . ’
16 Cause you have to put a lot of cream on your face to get the make up off and you do that especially if you 're doing two performances a day it 's an awful lot mess and much you 're putting on your face and you ca n't get it all off
17 We 've got four hundred four hundred words a day we calculated we 've got ta do
18 Fanny will have fifty pounds for wedding clothes , and I 'll give her five hundred pounds the day she marries you . ’
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