Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it may be better to provide a schizophrenia sufferer with personal transportation to enable him or her to reach a day centre rather than laying on transportation . |
| 2 | As this is no longer a public holiday , many people arrange either to work on a Bank Holiday in order to have this day off or they take a day of their holiday allocation . |
| 3 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |
| 4 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 5 | It was therefore with great irritation that I noticed a day or two later that they had all been moved back to the ‘ General Interest ’ section . |
| 6 | I suggest that you take a day or two to think of it , but remember that my cousin may find other employment in the meantime . ’ |
| 7 | To , to make people feel sorry for them and they have no shame at all in breaking limbs and distorting their features and all so that kind to make themselves look as pitiful as they possible can because they 're going to live a life of a beggar and they tell us it 's very profitable being a beggar in some lands , people can make in this country they reckon up to in places like London a hundred pounds a day being a beggar that 's more than you earn a day is n't it ? |
| 8 | Many companies , using only the most casual euphemisms , offer these services , so we spent a day on the phone talking to detective agencies listed in Yellow Pages , asking them what they had to offer . |
| 9 | A LEGEND originating in the island of Kythnos , Greece , tells how March was so angry with an old woman for thinking he was a summer month that he borrowed a day from his brother , February , and froze her and her flocks to death . |
| 10 | It 's an apprenticeship and I get a day off each week to go to school . ’ |
| 11 | So I went in there and I thought oh God , I mean I could , if you gave me , if I did a nice sketch and worked on it , if I spent a day a might |
| 12 | Add to this a chair lift to the top of the Alpine Slide and you have a day out for all the family . |
| 13 | You know , like erm maybe one of them 'd say , Well you know , I 'd say , well why do n't you leave her with erm your boyfriend for the day , and you have a day off and have a break ? |
| 14 | I send my secretary there an SOS and she spends a day clearing up and dumping my old files , generally tidying me up as well . |
| 15 | I sent her the manuscript , and she appointed a day for me to come to tea and take it back . |
| 16 | I did n't expect you to do the same again — that is , if you had a day off tomorrow . ’ |
| 17 | If you lose a day 's sailing or more , we pay you . |
| 18 | If you made a Day of the Dead cake at home you always hid a coin in it , and the person who found it was supposed to live for ever . |
| 19 | Lake Rotoiti is quite unspoilt and we did a day 's walk right round it ; had lunch at a hut by the head of the lake and waded through rivers to get to the other track . |
| 20 | Yeah cos they only took a hundred and something , but he said if I take about a hundred and something pound a day |
| 21 | So I 'll try and get something sorted before May , if not then we 'll go to the one in July , it 'll be red it should be red hot in July and it 's a really nice day and if we make a day of it , then we can take a picnic and you know it 's very so pleasant . |
| 22 | ‘ If there comes a day when I think , ‘ Jesus , I ca n't deal with this any more , it 's too much , ’ I 'll drop it or I 'll just fire everyone in the band . |
| 23 | And what did a day consist of roughly then ? |
| 24 | ‘ But I got a day in The Chokey just the same . ’ |
| 25 | That lunchtime they had told him their research was complete , but they had a day spare and were enjoying themselves . |
| 26 | When you want a day off tell me , I 'll write you a note . ’ |
| 27 | When you have a day off , nobody 's going to be paying you . |
| 28 | And Mick chatting to Jenny about what we can expect over the next few weeks , as we spend a day in the life . |