Example sentences of "give [adv prt] [art] day " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Well , my advice to him would be , do n't give up the day job . |
2 | do n't give up the day job Nigel … not that he 'd want to … red five flies again at Donington Park on sunday … |
3 | But the plot has more holes than an OAP 's hairnet , and the supercilious Ms Dash thoroughly deserves the pig-ignorant Mr Wayans , I strongly advise brother Marlon not to give up the day job and I sincerely hope I am indisposed should they decide to foist Mo' Money 2 on us . |
4 | ‘ The idea is to give up the day job and retreat to darkest Suffolk , ’ he said wistfully . |
5 | And anyway , Jersey 's barely overseas and I 'm giving up a day 's holiday here . ’ |
6 | But I 'm not giving up the day job — yet . |
7 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
8 | It 's been a bumpy ride , but the bill to privatize British Rail is almost at the end of its long parliamentary journey but the battle is n't over yet , earlier this week hundreds of protestors from a variety of backgrounds gave up a day and travelled from the North to carry their defiant message to Transport Secretary John MacGregor . |
9 | Steve gave up the day job last August and , with my razor sharp powers of journalistic observation , I think the day had some importance for him . |
10 | He gives up a day job to write down the stories — of the Secret Mountain , the Sound that could be Seen , the Slow Children and the Magic Duvet — that he once told for free to a rabble of offspring and other kin and friends . |