Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] day and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gunn was in splendid form : it was just past 7 o'clock , he was the 19th caddie to get his name down for the day and , almost certainly , he would work two jobs before nightfall . |
| 2 | ‘ Last Tuesday Nellie , my wife , had to go to hospital and they kept her in for a day and a night for eye tests . |
| 3 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
| 4 | Ragged children wearing a semblance of black and white uniform skip along the pavements on their way to school ; by midday their schooling will be over for the day and they will start work alongside their parents , or engage in various enterprises from shoe shining to the selling of postcards . |
| 5 | ‘ If I told you lessons were over for the day and you could go swimming , no doubt a miraculous recovery would take place . |
| 6 | School was over for the day and Sara had expected Jenny to arrive before this . |
| 7 | I say to him [ husband ] I 'm going to clear off for the day and you can do it all one day , and you 'll see what it 's like . |
| 8 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 9 | Stirling 's party decided to lie up for the day and , leaving the road , headed into some low hills covered with scrubby bushes . |
| 10 | Sweet Molly , who he was about to take out for the day and seduce if he got the chance . |
| 11 | They let me out for the day and then , when he regained consciousness five days later , they let me out again to see him . |
| 12 | I , I , mean we had erm , we went out for the day and they give us it was sandwiches |
| 13 | You forget we 've got spies , all the staff on this ward tell Jim exactly what you 've been doing er , that 's , that 's how he knew you got your hair done , can we have five pounds , she 's just had her hair permed , the day before he 's just coming in and , no they sent to the ward can we have five pounds please your mum 's been out for the day and she 's had her lunch out you cost him a fortune and you say you 've never been anywhere |