Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We went to Weston-super-Mare for a few days . |
| 3 | When King George died in 1952. and Queen Mary died in 1961 , Edward returned to Windsor for a few days . |
| 4 | The body of a young climber has been found in the Scottish Highlands after a three day search . |
| 5 | A couple of years ago I was staying in Malham for a few days and decided to set out one morning for Attermire by the old pack lane from Settle to Malham . |
| 6 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 7 | I knew I was going to Stafford for a few days , but I do n't think , I 'll be there a fortnight . |
| 8 | When she tried to get Josh into a free day nursery , she discovered that the local authority did not regard her situation as difficult . |
| 9 | Dick Hansen on a cold day in February 1992 , flying his P-40 for the first time . |
| 10 | Yeah , you could pop up to Scotland for a few days . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the end of the German campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece meant that many of the Luftwaffe units employed there were now being posted elsewhere , some of these stopping off in Sicily for a few days on their way back to Germany and undertaking a few missions over Malta . |
| 12 | Two of London 's leading furniture and antique dealers , Hotspur Ltd and Jeremy Ltd , are holding a joint exhibition entitled ‘ Antique Lighting ’ from 7 to 21 February with an open day on Sunday 7 February from 11 to 5 . |
| 13 | In order to try and get a ‘ Northern English accent ’ , Dustin went to see the Beatles in A Hard Day 's Night about a dozen times determined to ‘ sound like those guys ’ . |
| 14 | We 're going to Kinsai in a few days . |
| 15 | We pushed down , the route-finding difficult and the weather like Scotland on a bad day , wet and misty . |
| 16 | The championships were reduced to an all-English affair when Adrian Davies , the Welsh No 1 , joined Nicol as a first day exit . |
| 17 | Caving , of course , does nothing for pristine clothing , but the bedraggled and apparent roughnecks seen in the streets of Ingleton after a hard day can afford to ignore the caustic comments of observers : they know a wonderful world their critics will never see . |
| 18 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 19 | The entire contents of Château Saint-Paul de Cornillon , the Loire valley home of Paris antique dealer Bernard Baruch Steinitz , are to be auctioned in the castle itself by Jacques Tajan of Ader Tajan in a four day sale from 28 to 31 May . |
| 20 | Arriving by road from Bodmin in an all day journey delayed by early morning loading difficulties and resultant time and route restrictions into Devon , the NRM loco finally arrived just before 8.00 pm . |
| 21 | You know , the one where you sit there and lie through your teeth about spending every waking hour flossing and probing and massaging and never go out of an evening without your single-headed brush , and the Aussie hygienist who looks like Brooke Shields on a good day takes one prod at your gum and it spouts blood like Moby Dick on a bad day and the game 's up there and then . |
| 22 | THE SOUNDBITE VERSION of the Deee-Lite story you probably know : a Russian émigré ( Super DJ Dmitry ! ) , working as a go-go dancer in New York clubs , is introduced to a bald New York textile designer ( Lady Miss Kier Kirby ! ) by the fountain in Washington Square on a sunny day in 1982 . |
| 23 | Instead of a freeze-dried New England accent , Phillips gives us a combination of weird sister , deranged Southern matron and Mary Martin on a bad day . |
| 24 | Such factors include their own personal characteristics , their social and political background , which newspapers they read , how much television news they watched , whether they watched television news on a particular day , and even whether they watched BBC or ITV on a particular day . |
| 25 | 9th May to 11th October : Includes full day visit to Floriade plus a full day visit to Amsterdam . |
| 26 | 27th March to 9th April : Includes full day escorted visit to the Bulbfields plus a full day visit to Amsterdam . |
| 27 | 10th April to 8th May : Includes full day escorted visit to the Bulbfields plus a full day visit to Floriade . |
| 28 | Have to be in Paris for a few days . |
| 29 | ‘ This young lad was getting people to mind Sam for a few days at a time . |
| 30 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |