Example sentences of "i [vb past] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I got a day in The Chokey just the same . ’ |
| 2 | It was therefore with great irritation that I noticed a day or two later that they had all been moved back to the ‘ General Interest ’ section . |
| 3 | Occasionally I spent a day in London , always returning at night to keep my mother company . |
| 4 | I spent a day with her family at Eastbourne — except that it was n't with her family , for I hardly met them . |
| 5 | In one Oxfordshire school in which I spent a day , I saw a nine year old begin a piece of descriptive writing at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 6 | So I went in there and I thought oh God , I mean I could , if you gave me , if I did a nice sketch and worked on it , if I spent a day a might |
| 7 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |
| 8 | I took a day to go and fetch and Mid Wales , I had a lot of er of erm erm spruce er Norway , larches and . |
| 9 | Then I did a day 's course in bouncing choreography but never found time to create a routine . |
| 10 | I had a day off and when I came back there was a big trophy sitting there in the shop . |
| 11 | Lying in second place and sitting on a possible £3,000 I decided that two practice sessions were needed and on the Tuesday , a week before the match , I had a day off work ( I left Dek in charge of the shop — yet again ) and headed 70 miles down the M.1. to the canal to try to sort it out . |