Example sentences of "day ['s] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 2 | On their return home after a day 's work they must then be given a good if not excessive meal . |
| 3 | They are , however , subsidized to some extent , and although the Remploy workers do a full day 's work they do not have quite such demands made on them as they would encounter in open employment . |
| 4 | After the day 's work we had all the colony drilling for an hour or two in the yard , which formed a spacious square . |
| 5 | At the end of the day 's work we layered the clocks between blankets in the wheelbarrow , and trundled them into the garage to be packed . |
| 6 | Her handwriting was small and neat , and Paul 's headaches had grown worse ; after the day 's work he preferred to dictate to Dinah , then get her to read the passage back . |
| 7 | Ah well , all in a day 's work I suppose . ’ |
| 8 | And after the day 's play they will attend a grand dinner when Tet-ley 's £500,000 cheque will be handed to the Variety Club . |
| 9 | Eventually , though , Mike recovered , and after a day 's rest we carried on . |
| 10 | At the beginning of each day 's trading you will be given a small amount of money ( eg £20 ) in small change , to put into the till . |
| 11 | Ken did and Jackie promptly produced results : on his first day 's testing he was as quick as Bruce McLaren ; in his first race he won and scored eleven victories in thirteen starts . |
| 12 | ‘ The simplest explanation would be that by pinching a whole day 's deaths you help conceal an interest in just one of them . |
| 13 | For that day 's class she had taken her own watercolours , bought with the Visacard in Reading … |
| 14 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 15 | After a good day 's fishing he persuaded me to spend the night at Fullcircle . |
| 16 | Having selected your water and turned up for a day 's fishing you then have to decide where the fish will be on the day in question . |
| 17 | Now and then , Kitty would volunteer to do a couple of hours ' work on the barrow , but once she had eaten her way through the day 's profits she would soon disappear . |
| 18 | If you follow this day 's eating you will get through only 2,778 calories . |
| 19 | Petty had already intimated that he might not be able to continue his attendance at the debates further ( after 29 October ) , but before the end of that day 's proceedings he explained why ‘ we [ the Levellers ] would exclude apprentices , or servants , or those that take alms , it is because they depend upon the will of other men and should be afraid to displease [ them ] ’ . |