Example sentences of "a fine day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being tight-fisted individuals we by-passed the fee-paying nature trail through the woods and crossed the beck to join a Green Lane that led pleasantly back to Clapham and the end of a fine day 's trek through Yorkshire 's classic karst and pavement country . |
| 2 | ‘ Going to be a fine day tomorrow , Jack . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Who 's talking of dying on a fine day like this ? ’ |
| 4 | A FINE DAY FOR CHANGING THE WORLD 1780–85 A.D. |
| 5 | They came : a tight little group , guns in the crooks of their arms , chatting and laughing amongst themselves , like hunters strolling up to view the bag after a fine day in the field . |
| 6 | The power station is clearly visible on a fine day . |
| 7 | A banquet-hall deserted — Broadstone Station would henceforth be only that to thousands for whom it had for long been associated with happiness — the happiness of the day 's work , the happiness of companionship , the happiness of simply being alive on a fine day . |
| 8 | But you can see for yourself , on a fine day like this , it 's a nice sight . ’ |
| 9 | Even on a fine day , the corridor could be so dark that the effect was like walking through a tunnel . |
| 10 | So obvious are these vertical shafts and so compelling an attraction that it is usual on a fine day to find a line of cars parked along the roadside and people of all ages timidly visiting each one to peer into the depths . |
| 11 | Play Gorleston on a fine day and you 'll find no more delightful holiday course offering such midweek green fee value . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a fine day . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , ’ Miss Beard said , ‘ we have a fine day for it ! |
| 14 | Paul stared at the reeds in the narrow river ; the Clyde wound here like a country stream , and up the grass incline women hung out washing or spread it to dry on a fine day . |
| 15 | The Sheikha got up and stood in the door , thanking God and declaring it a fine day . |
| 16 | We agreed that it was indeed a fine day — a perfect day . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's been a fine day , the sun is setting and somebody is telling you your daughter has been murdered . |
| 18 | As I sat looking up at this magnificent bird , especially on a fine day , I used to feel a terrific urge to see a bird of prey flying to a lure , which I 'd read about in my falconry books . |
| 19 | Ardnamurchan Point , on a fine day , more than justifies the long and tortuous journey necessary to see its beautiful seascapes , the best of all . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , aye , with a bit of luck , on a fine day . |
| 21 | ‘ If there 's no wind it 's a fine day ! ’ is a Shetland expression , and to me it is especially relevant because not only does it affect the movements of birds and animals , but it makes them so much easier to see on the water . |
| 22 | It was also a fine day for sailing and dozens of small yachts clustered in Exmouth bay , taking the early sea breeze . |
| 23 | If you leave it in the aircraft in the hope of a fine day , make sure it is fully charged . |
| 24 | There is a fitness to everything at Templeton , an order and a purpose , from the disposition of the crops and bridles in the tack room ( on a fine day Mrs Guest rises at 6.30 am to ride her horse , Opium , for an hour ) and the ranks of Maxwell riding boots in their bright felt CZG monogrammed pockets , to the vegetable gardens with their improbably neat and weedless battalions of vegetables , the closets with legions of colour-spectrum cashmeres and the table-top still lifes with flotillas of eighteenth-century snuff boxes . |
| 25 | He never shared their meals , eating by himself in the parlour with Miss Evans waiting on him , but sometimes he would come into the kitchen while they were having their tea and say , ‘ Well , Caroline , it 's a fine day for the race , is n't it ? ’ |
| 26 | And when it 's such a fine day , for once , one ought to let them kick . |
| 27 | It was , observed Geoffrey , a fine day — good campaigning weather . |
| 28 | This is a drive to loiter over , a spot or series of spots to invest a fine day in . |
| 29 | You may have to tell guests in advance , ‘ We 're cutting the cake and having the speeches in the dining room at half past , ’ then send the chief bridesmaid into the gardens if it is a fine day , and the other bridesmaids around the house , to inform stragglers that the speeches are about to be made . |
| 30 | Quite apart from the deafening thunder of the falls , and the awe-inspiring sight of their dramatic descent , the effect can be sheer magic on a fine day ; as the sunlight catches the spray in flight , and transforms it into an elusive pattern of shapes and colours that suggest in painting the Impressionism of Manet or the mists of Corot , or in music , the evocative nuances of Debussy . |