Example sentences of "a whole day " in BNC.
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| 1 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 2 | One fighter flying low overhead can ruin a whole day 's work . |
| 3 | They spent a whole day placing the furniture . |
| 4 | They set off together in the small car , Rose 's girlish smiles and waves only accentuating the picture of the happy couple going on a whole day 's outing alone together . |
| 5 | Saturday night is racing cars up and down the eight miles of road , the nearest policeman being , perhaps , a whole day away . |
| 6 | By day 22 he was getting up at the ‘ correct ’ time ( that is , his morning and real morning coincided ) , but had lost a whole day . |
| 7 | I suppose it is an inevitable reaction of those who look at the world with questioning eyes , to regard everyone with suspicion and , after a whole day tracking spies on this spycatcher weekend , our senses were certainly finely tuned . |
| 8 | Two days before Mark returned to England , Klepner spent a whole day with Muldoon going over the plan . |
| 9 | Just think , we 'll have practically a whole day together … . ’ |
| 10 | A whole day to Leghorn and a night spent there and then the last but one square on the chart was reached . |
| 11 | She is away for hours ; perhaps a whole day . |
| 12 | As well as his own impressions ( and further reading ) , it draws on the comments made by his colleagues on the field trips and especially during a whole day 's discussion that we were privileged to have , at Uig Community Centre on 2 October 1980 , with many of those most closely involved in the development of the Western Isles . |
| 13 | The interest in local on-farm training was due no doubt to the difficulty that many found in getting away from their farms for a whole day . |
| 14 | The price of those chocolates would have paid for food for an Indian family for a whole day . |
| 15 | ‘ Agnes Dooly , we have a whole day to enjoy ourselves . |
| 16 | A whole day by air-conditioned coach to Venice , with dinner ( optional ) in a canal side restaurant . |
| 17 | Others take a whole day , when a good packed lunch and proper walking shoes are advised . |
| 18 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |
| 19 | Danielle was all smiles in the arms of her beloved nanny and much to my distress did not have the good grace to shed a single tear as I walked out of the door and out of her life … for a whole day . |
| 20 | We shall have to go in an aeroplane for a whole day , can you imagine ? |
| 21 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 22 | A ‘ session ’ may be a half a day or a whole day . |
| 23 | I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me . |
| 24 | Karelius ' mare , after a whole day on her feet , stumbled gamely on across the freezing moorland towards Lake Satschen , and escape to the south . |
| 25 | He was so fed up that he put another penny to the one earned for a whole day 's labour and went to the pub where he drowned his sorrows in a pint . |
| 26 | I once followed a pupil around for a whole day , and was impressed by the peculiar mixture she experienced of dislocated bits and pieces , and longer sessions where there were ‘ spaces ’ for her to enjoy and explore learning or — occasionally — to waste time in . |
| 27 | Alfort was described at that time as four miles from Paris , and Sewell spent a whole day at the veterinary school . |
| 28 | During the whole anniversary season , buy a Family Ticket ( 2 adults and 2 children aged 5–16 years ) and spend a whole day exploring the Railway for only £19 ! |
| 29 | But even if one were to follow a couple for a whole day on repeated occasions , would this do justice to the full range , texture and history of the changing day-to-day relations between mother and child ? |
| 30 | I gobbled them down — there was a whole day ahead of me and no guarantee of food — and washed them down with water . |