Example sentences of "day 's [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Day 's fulcrum at the point before the year plunges . ’ |
| 2 | For example a day 's course at Sion College , in Central London , costs £95 plus £70 for the participant 's partner . |
| 3 | ‘ I and a few others got into Kuwait in the morning and we were finishing our day 's work at about 5pm . |
| 4 | A typical example of such observation can be seen in Alfred W. Arthurton 's account of the day 's work at Paddington Station in 1904 : |
| 5 | True , she went to bed late , and was often at her desk until four a.m. , and so might have been expected to rise well after midday , and luxuriate over breakfast before beginning her day 's work at one in the afternoon . |
| 6 | Her husband had just finished the day 's work at his butcher 's shop and they were settling down to supper . |
| 7 | How can we accept Matthew Arnold 's faith in the civilising influence of art , Steiner asks , now that we know that a ‘ man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening , that he can play Bach and Schubert , and go to his day 's work at Auschwitz in the morning ’ ( p. 15 ) . |
| 8 | Although her brother , Bert , was now employed by a local fisherman , Arnold Spence , and could do no more than a few day 's work at Four Winds now and then , nevertheless her new arrangements left Harriet free to work outside herself and this regular exercise had a calming effect , releasing her from a great deal of inner tension . |
| 9 | In 1987 Mr Keyse was disabled in a road accident while returning home from a day 's work at Llanfair Caereinion station . |
| 10 | This is all in a day 's work at the Fire Service Training College at Moreton-in-Marsh . |
| 11 | There was a burst of male laughter from the bar , which had suddenly filled up with men wearing MCC ties ; the day 's play at Lord 's would have ended just about twenty minutes ago . |
| 12 | I spotted several club professionals , who were clearly delighted to be out for a day 's entertainment at the expense of one of the manufacturers . |
| 13 | In spite of only thirteen miles on the first day , nine on the second , a day 's rest at Adrar , and another here at Reggane , the average was still eighteen . |
| 14 | Yesterday I and a few of my colleagues spent a day 's retreat at Compton Durrville , a Franciscan retreat centre in this diocese . |
| 15 | Paul would depart early in the morning , leaving Dinah still asleep ; by the time he got back after his day 's reading at the publishing house , had had a meal , and worked on his manuscript , Dinah was long gone . |
| 16 | The company has also agreed to pay for half a day 's training at its own centre . |
| 17 | They all worked at the BUPA South Bank Hospital in Worcester , and were returning after a day 's training at a hospital in Cardiff when the crash happened . |
| 18 | The market is given the estimate of the liquidity position for the coming day 's business at 9.45 a.m. on their information screens . |
| 19 | It is a painless way to travel with the unrivalled advantage of giving you an extra day 's skiing at each end of a week 's holiday . |
| 20 | A turbulent third day 's debate at the Congress of People 's Deputies was marked by emotion and alarms over a report — later discounted — that troops were approaching the Kremlin . |
| 21 | We ate a day 's supply at a time , so there was never anything much in the house overnight except bread for breakfast and the staples that were bought on Saturday . |
| 22 | ‘ She had never been out of Italy before — now there she was without as much as a full day 's notice at Brown 's Hotel looking on top hats and umbrellas out of a window that worked like a guillotine . |
| 23 | His mother and grandfather were eyeing him as he emerged from the bed and felt the nag of their expectation that he would go off at once to earn a day 's wage at Aberfeldy . |