Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] winter [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next year Minnie I will be forty and hardly able to believe it but I am resolved to make great changes with the help of a hard winter 's work . |
| 2 | However , we had to go , so we steamed off once more from Gravesend into the murk of a drizzly winter 's night without much hope of success . |
| 3 | And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks . |
| 4 | A warm draught blew across the platform , one which could only be a Mediterranean breeze or synthetically produced , the latter being more likely as we were standing under a dull winter 's day in London . |
| 5 | Trainer Jimmy Etherington , who submitted a ‘ friendly ’ claim of £9,354 to ensure taking the filly back to Yorkshire , is now looking forward to a long winter 's break when the turf season closes on Monday . |
| 6 | On a snowy winter 's day in 1948 , Czech communist leader Klement Gottwald posed for a photo with his inner circle . |
| 7 | And the room always looked beautiful , except on a gloomy winter 's day , when it was frightful . |
| 8 | I remember visiting one such on a freezing winter 's day . |
| 9 | ‘ I assure you , Sir John , ’ Mowbray rasped , ‘ we can hardly find our way around the Tower in the full light of day , never mind on a freezing winter 's night . ’ |
| 10 | Although today these vital units of the railway system are being phased out by the modern fully automated control centres , there still remains the lonely , isolated signal box , often miles from anywhere , that on a dark winter 's night can conjure up strange happenings and instil fear even in the heart of the most level-headed signalman . |
| 11 | Apart from Athelstan she knew no one there , and Southwark was a dangerous place to visit on a dark winter 's day . |
| 12 | If you 've never seen the Tan Hill on a bleary winter 's day when winds are driving wet sleet over the hellhole of Sleightholme Moor and the sky and the land are welded together in one sullen , sodden grey , then you 've missed a treat . |
| 13 | But at 50°s ; F , it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut , and much below that temperature , digestion ceases , Koi fed on a warm winter 's day will then have to pass a cold winter night , when a gutful of even low-protein pellets can turn into a pathogenic sludge causing liver and kidney failure . |
| 14 | Autumn has the benefit of flaming natural colours , but an outing on a sharp winter 's day , with perhaps a smattering of snow is perfect . |
| 15 | On a wet winter 's day when the sea is at its roughest , the sight of the waves pounding against the bottom of the cliffs , throwing spray up over the top and into the fields , is breathtaking . |
| 16 | But there are times when nothing less will do — on a chilly winter 's or rainy spring day , or when the family are at home , or on weekends when everyone welcomes a change from the routine of packed lunches and wine bar grub . |
| 17 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 18 | What happens on a cold winter 's evening you stand in front of the fire . |
| 19 | One told me how on a cold winter 's day of driving rain , her only refuge was the car parked outside the house . |
| 20 | She seemed fascinated by Benjamin as if he was telling some mysterious tale on a cold winter 's night and she was a spectator , not a party to it . |
| 21 | To visit the area on a summer 's day , surrounded by picnickers , is pleasant enough , but to gaze across the four visible countries on a grey winter 's afternoon is bleak beyond belief . |