Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a day of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gold-winning hurdler and fiance Jon Biggs will follow a morning marriage in Florida with a day of games like volleyball , the groom told Hello ! magazine . |
| 2 | If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other . |
| 3 | ( So much so that when , at the 1989 party conference , a delegate got up to speak in defence of Sunday as a day of worship , he was met with a chorus of boos from shopkeepers on the floor . ) |
| 4 | Increased leisure opportunities have meant that people can take their leisure during the week and leave Sunday as a day of rest . |
| 5 | In return , Wihtred 's laws , issued at Bearsted on 6 September 695 , freed the Church in Kent from taxation and concerned themselves extensively with religious matters , pronouncing against irregular marriage unions , non-observance of Sunday as a day of rest , and continuing pagan worship . |
| 6 | I could try reassuring them that over in Holland , the half-century is toasted as the age of wisdom , that women are dubbed Sarah ( the biblical matriarch ) and men Abraham for a day of high celebration . |
| 7 | Two feet of flood water swamped the Chapmans house at Westbury on Severn after a day of torrential rain . |