Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 2 | Four fourball matches were played over a gusty , grey Royal Aberdeen course on a day when the greens were like glass and the rough was long . |
| 3 | Dobson came on because Waddle was tormenting poor Alan Wright on a day that looked to belong to Wednesday when John Harkes let rip . |
| 4 | Nigel could n't leave his digging but wished us luck and we began to make our plans : go up on the Settle-Carlisle line for a day or two , split up to get round all the caravans quicker , then meet at dinner and tea to compare notes . |
| 5 | THERE was not a lot in the budget for farmers according to National Farmers ' Union of Scotland analysts after a day 's reflection . |
| 6 | skimmed flat stones across Black Moss on a day |
| 7 | Equally , baseball is a fundamentally silly game that somehow achieves a kind of iconic status because its players dress like mad old Great Uncle Alfred on a day trip to Blackpool in 1910 . |
| 8 | The German once again posed the most serious threat to the Williams pair on a day of hot sunshine and humidity . |
| 9 | • Bradford specimen hunter Eddie Harrison banked this 2 lb 2 oz roach during a session on the Rive Aire in the Keighley area on a day when everyone else was blanking . |
| 10 | Diana , on weekend leave from West Heath school , was introduced to the Prince in the middle of a ploughed field near Nobottle Wood on the Althorp estate during a day 's shooting . |
| 11 | All three came in with two under par rounds of 73 over the Royal Lytham and St Annes on a day when only eight players bettered a demanding par . |
| 12 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 13 | His mother had been silent when she first saw it , and his father had been angry at the lack of enthusiasm and had arranged to take Stuart fishing for a day to a small loch where he could borrow a boat . |
| 14 | So , if you ate , say , thirty Mars bars in a day you might just put on 2 lb ( 1 kg ) of fat . |
| 15 | They would load it for Pelham Street after a day 's work in the factory , drive there and back in a night , and report for work as usual the next morning . |
| 16 | As long as you 've got Windows 3.1 , 2Mb of RAM , and a monitor and VGA card capable of displaying 256 colours , you can become Michael Winner for a day ! |
| 17 | All packages from here for London are being diverted to the Riyadh office for a day before they go forward . ’ |