Example sentences of "of a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such moments happened mostly during the ungodly first hours of a new day , those breathless hours when a soul sighs away from a dying body . |
| 32 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
| 33 | By half-past , she had showered , dressed and crept past the door to his room and was outside in the fresh , sparkling air of a new day . |
| 34 | He had never found it easy to get up in the morning , and being under sentence of death did not make the prospect of a new day any more enticing . |
| 35 | I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day . |
| 36 | The beginning of a new day . |
| 37 | In the distance he heard the church bells signal the awakening of a new day . |
| 38 | It 's there at the start of a new day . |
| 39 | On my way home I reflect on the pleasures of a good day 's fishing . |
| 40 | What the game really needs is a career woman — or , at least , one whose idea of a good day 's work is n't in the ballroom with Colonel Mustard and a candlestick . |
| 41 | I with Mathilda , Benjamin with Rachel , Bowyer with good food and drink , and the Agentes with the prospect of a good day 's hunting . |
| 42 | An unbeaten fourth wicket stand of 133 between captain and wicket keeper Giles Reynolds ( not out 81 ) and Alan Willows ( not out 58 ) ruined Wales ' chances of a good day . |
| 43 | The allocation of a reserve day for all One-day Internationals over 55 overs . |
| 44 | As my grandad used to say at the end of a grand day like that , " That 's another one they ca n't take away from you . " |
| 45 | It is something of a red-letter day for Dwyer — his 51st international in his 51st year . |
| 46 | I suggested that it was a waste of a glorious day to eat indoors . |
| 47 | About this time , there was a family funeral — with all the mock solemnity and grandeur of a cockney day out . |
| 48 | Table 4 is an example of a typical day 's food intake . |
| 49 | It is worth quoting in full Hardie 's graphic account of a typical day 's work by one of the artists : |
| 50 | Take out of a typical day the classes you must attend , the time spent travelling , the hours you sleep , the eating , shopping , meeting friends , relaxing , watching television , listening to music and all the other activities of a busy day , and there is not much time left for study . |
| 51 | Usually it is at the end of a long day 's racing , with a number of stressful periods all adding to the pilot 's fatigue . |
| 52 | This is one of the effects of lack of oxygen , but also of dehydration at the end of a long day 's excitement . |
| 53 | A comfortable sleeping bag provides the means to re-charge your batteries at the end of a long day so it 's important to ensure you have the right one for the job . |
| 54 | In Meswick hunters can find lodging in the Mushroom Cap Motel and tip back a few beers at the Mushroom Bar at the end of a long day 's tramp . |
| 55 | These buildings were invariably well heated and conducive to ‘ nodding off at the end of a long day . |
| 56 | The end of a long day … |
| 57 | ‘ The interview came at the end of a long day . |
| 58 | Relaxing after dinner with a cup of any of the new Kenco rich-tasting coffees is a great way of unwinding after the stresses and strains of a long day . |
| 59 | Right now it 's the end of a long day in London and the 48-year-old Young prowls the room with a stooped , rangy gait , the traces of a roguish grin on his well-worn face . |
| 60 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |