Example sentences of "end [prep] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The almost unanimous passage of the decree , by 364 votes to 6 , came at the end of a day of turmoil at the Supreme Soviet sitting in the Kremlin . |
| 2 | Twenty-four hours have indeed passed , but the end of a day does not necessarily mean sleep . |
| 3 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
| 4 | Volvo on the other hand is testing buses fitted with filters like dustbins , which are cleaned at the end of a day . |
| 5 | SECURITY forces launched a fresh assault on tens of thousands of demonstrators in the centre of Bucharest late last night at the end of a day in which violent repression was reported to have cost at least 20 lives in the Romanian capital . |
| 6 | Last night , the new civilian government declared a curfew at the end of a day in which helicopters firing rockets and machineguns were deployed against the pro-Noriega militia based in the sprawling poor districts of San Miguelito . |
| 7 | His impassioned speech came at the end of a day of increasing speculation over the likelihood that the Liberal Democrats could hold the balance of power after Thursday 's general election . |
| 8 | Questions are often raised in this respect as to whether disinfection should be carried out at the end of a day , after work or the following morning before work . |
| 9 | I can recall many hours of enjoyable discussion on this topic around the fire of the servants ' hall at the end of a day . |
| 10 | Indeed at the end of a day , this would be bacteriologically impossible . ) |
| 11 | The landscape which generation after generation created is like a classroom blackboard at the end of a day , on which each lesson has been written without entirely erasing the previous one . |
| 12 | At the end of a day 's sailing it is worth thinking about what you have learned that day , and trying to work out why the new technique works better than the one it has replaced . |
| 13 | And how we coped with the return to our homes at the end of a day or a trip away . |
| 14 | At the end of a day 's trading , the retailer needs to know exactly how much money he has taken . |
| 15 | They would certainly benefit from electrolytes at the end of a day 's hunting . |
| 16 | Do you take stock at the end of a day , a week or a year ? |
| 17 | At the end of a day 's work , when this has involved meeting people , the speechreader will want to relax and unwind before starting any more conversation . |
| 18 | Ken 's job in the library often leaves him tired and touchy at the end of a day . |
| 19 | You may not want to walk down lonely streets or dark paths alone at the end of a day 's work . |
| 20 | Attractive features include : a lighter product , no tube to create extra weight when working out of the studio , a cheaper product without sacrificing the quality of the pigment , simplification of process , no need for palette and knife , mediums and preparations ; neither is there a need to clean up and put caps back on tubes and tops on bottles at the end of a day 's work ! |
| 21 | ‘ Hepzibah said it was just like putting a light out at the end of a day . ’ |
| 22 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 23 | He hated other people 's leaving him for bed , and when he saw a hard mood ahead he often took a sleeping pill at supper to stop himself from being clamorous , though at the same time he found his terror about the end of a day daft in a creature who was surely intended by build to signify immortal fun . |
| 24 | By the end of a day I was shattered and exhilarated . |
| 25 | More various , shifting , fading , like the light at the end of a day , as the lights came closer and closer towards us . |
| 26 | She sounded empty , drained by her anger at the end of a day of travelling and love-making . |
| 27 | It was too early for me to be a Yuckie — the tabloid newspapers ' shorthand for the young city slickers who celebrated the end of a day 's trading with too much lager and then reverted to type as the football hooligans they really were under the skin . |
| 28 | At the end of a day 's banking some banks are going to be more liquid , as a result of net deposits and other banks are going to be less liquid than they were at the beginning of the day 's business , as a result of a net withdrawal of deposits . |
| 29 | Surely , the perfect end to a day 's electioneering ? |