Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] day [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Anyone who has made the mistake of parking at harvest-time under the trees which line the Place Drouet d'Erlon in Reims , will realise that most of Champagne 's bird life return each night to this one street to rest and make room for the following day 's gorging of grapes .
2 So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ?
3 For a period , he worked in the Manchester factory from 3am until 5pm , going to bed at 7pm so he could get up in time for the next day 's duty .
4 They chatted for a while longer , then Mrs Lennox and Susan set about packing , getting ready for the next day 's evacuation .
5 Then it would be her lunchtime , and probably another feed , and after that they 'd send her for her afternoon rest , and then collect the specimens and the data from him for the next day 's test session .
6 Before turning in for the night I telephoned Fred Workman to say I would be back at my desk by mid-morning and would be covering the visit of Mr Gladstone Murray to our city , his meetings and his broadcast speech , for the next day 's evening edition .
7 She was moving back on board Wavebreaker in preparation for the next day 's early departure .
8 The young child was more interested in her father who was busy cutting slabs of meat into small portions for the next day 's pies .
9 We were sitting round the newsroom table , mulling over ideas for the next day 's programme .
10 When the couple had gone upstairs to bed , Mr Stephens packed his bag for the next day 's outing , bolted the doors firmly — for many of the men stayed in Cockermouth drinking for three or four days and would roam the streets at night looking for somewhere to sleep — and then , as if to atone for those first designs he had on Emily , he picked out Silas Marner from his bookshelf and wrapped it up as a present for her .
11 And while you were , while you were using a film which you had in anyway for the next day 's performance and putting in that slot
12 As Judith finished cleaning out the hen for the next day 's dinner , she made room on the kitchen table for her mother to prepare the Friday-night traditional meal of gefilte fish .
13 Including going over the tapes for the next day 's lectures . ’
14 After a good night 's sleep in the spacious suites , they should be in an excellent frame of mind for the next day 's play .
15 These depressions were usually connected with his job ; she guessed he was still irritated by his wasted trip to Glasgow and consequent lack of a story for the next day 's paper .
16 The market is given the estimate of the liquidity position for the coming day 's business at 9.45 a.m. on their information screens .
17 Seven hours of torrential rain during the second day 's play reduced the pitch to a lake which in places had the players running calf deep in muddy water .
18 During the next day 's march there was a sudden commotion at the back of our straggling caravan .
19 Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired .
20 Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives .
21 The temperature 's hitting the 80 's and the kids are wearing day-glo Bermuda shorts and chattering excitedly about the coming day 's events .
22 After the second day 's play the ball in use was locked in the Oval safe and sent to Lord 's the next morning .
23 The Levys stayed tight-lipped after the first day 's hearing .
24 After the first day 's dressage the world class field was led by a local rider from Oxford …
25 Matthew Fleming scored 63 for Kent against Nottinghamshire at Maidstone on June 30 in borrowed kit , having left his at Gateshead after the previous day 's match with Durham .
26 Once a patrician villa , a small terrace in the gardens provides a lush , flower-bedecked retreat after a hectic day 's sightseeing and , within , marble pillars , frescoes and high , painted ceilings remain from former times in the public rooms .
27 ‘ We were benighted after a long day 's ride to Rannoch , ordering floor timber for the mill . ’
28 And after a long day 's walking , what better way to end it than with a glass of cider in one of St Ives ' treasures — The Three Ferrets .
29 Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike .
30 After a long day 's hearing , such as obviously took place here , that might be the sensible thing to do so that the court is not producing these important findings and reasons under pressure .
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