Example sentences of "light [prep] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | That strange zone of time and light between day and night is broken only by bats wheeling and diving across the expanse of the East Coast main line . |
| 2 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 3 | I knew that , in the cold light of day , he held all the aces . |
| 4 | Fully dressed , midnight butterfly in this light of day , we hold each other , grind , baby , grind so I could take a chunk out of your neck by way of breakfast . |
| 5 | Sadly , for it was a lively , largely autobiographical piece , it would never see the light of day . |
| 6 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 7 | John Franklin , director of corporate finance at the merchant bank Morgan Grenfell , whose clients include both societies and prospective bidders , is convinced a bid for a society is on the way : ‘ The first merger will see the light of day early next year . ’ |
| 8 | Through a tiny door off the dry page of the street , from the cold light of day to sitting in womb-like blackness . |
| 9 | Come five o ’ clock on a Saturday afternoon you 'd bundle your way out of the pictures , delirious with image overload , to be hit between the eyes by the blinding light of day and a balmy blanket of heat . |
| 10 | Dragons can lie for dark centuries brooding over their treasures , bedding down on frozen flames that will never see the light of day . |
| 11 | The US components divisions would hit the goddamned roof if that proposal was ever given the light of day . |
| 12 | The struggle continues in the light of day in two stories which tell how he , the younger brother , gets the better of Esau . |
| 13 | The Feminine Mystique , which dared to put the silent question , did not see the light of day until 1963 , when it sold three million copies , but it was already being written and its audience was waiting . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , these things always look better in the cold light of day . |
| 15 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 16 | Perhaps the clearest demonstration of the need to conceal and the compulsion to reveal , the need to bring the always-denied and never-happening into the light of day , was seen in North 's attitude towards the diversion of funds . |
| 17 | Among the items which therefore never saw light of day was one in which I suggested that there were individual candidates of all the parties in different parts of the country whom one might be tempted to vote for on purely personal grounds . |
| 18 | Whether the book or film ever see the light of day depends on whether he is successful . |
| 19 | If a mixed metaphor can be forgiven , Pandora 's box remains black , and must now be opened to the light of day . |
| 20 | All they want is to read Ellen 's endless journal once our friend in there has actually managed to bring it to the light of day . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I will adventure , ’ said the little tailor , ‘ though I have great fear of the dark places under the earth , where there is no light of day and what is above is dense and heavy . ’ |
| 22 | Both are out of print and according to his publisher ( the wacky John Muir of Todmorden ) are unlikely ever to see the light of day again . |
| 23 | Although the excavations are not yet wholly complete , many hectares of the town have now been revealed to the light of day , and it is now possible to stroll along the abandoned streets once more with the remains of shops , houses and villas on either side . |
| 24 | Many myths of the hero retrace a common narrative : a sea journey ; battle with a monster ; descent into the belly of the beast ; and , finally , triumphant re-emergence into the light of day . |
| 25 | ‘ We all know about criminal cases and traffic offences , but there are many aspects of the work of the Magistrates Court which do not see the light of day as far as the general public are concerned , for example juvenile and matrimonial cases . |
| 26 | Many of Brindley 's ideas were regarded as the hair-brained schemes of a madman which would never see the light of day . |
| 27 | Old grievances and resentments tumbled out , but in the light of day turned out to have less power than when they 'd been hidden away . |
| 28 | In the cold light of day , my inhibitions would prevent these performances and without hypnotic effects of refreshing liquids I could not put together the necessary words , my own and those of Robert Service , in an intelligible manner . |
| 29 | The early stages of the rise of Venice arc obscure and ill-documented ; but when it comes into the light of day it is ruled already by a duke or doge popularly elected , yet normally chosen from , and dependent on , the great families of the Rialto , the chief island of the archipelago on which Venice is crazily and romantically constructed . |
| 30 | ‘ You know as well as I do it 's a damned great industry — and there are plenty of facets to it that never see the light of day . |