Example sentences of "the heat of [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | This man would forget the purpose of his visit , at least for a brief spell , and the fact that he was on official business , and drink tea and eat a good meal in the prosecutor 's house , crack jokes and make amiable conversation , and sleep through the heat of the day . |
| 2 | IT 'S EARLY afternoon and the heat of the day hangs heavy in Rafiq 's humble mud-floored shop . |
| 3 | We visited the atmospheric and sturdy 12th-century Abbaye du Thoronet in the heat of the day , when the low-arched cloisters , massive chapel and medieval granary were dark and cool and most of the tourists were at lunch . |
| 4 | It 's a relaxed atmosphere here with most people preferring to laze around the complex in the heat of the day , but the beach is only 3000 metres away . |
| 5 | Everything you need is available here from the tennis court which is floodlit at night so that you need n't play in the heat of the day , to the restaurants — the Timanfaya restaurant which serves snacks and full meals at discounted prices and the Indian restaurant . |
| 6 | The mammals in particular stay in burrows during the day , and emerge only at night ; and reptiles , too , hole up in the heat of the day . |
| 7 | The heat of the day had been replaced by searing cold and the bus was nearly empty . |
| 8 | The town outside was long since ruined and empty , and he preferred St Hilarion in the heat of the day . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , as Primaflora was immoderately aware , he would not have come for these alone , with no heed for the heat of the day . |
| 10 | ‘ The heat of the day , no less . |
| 11 | Faldo said : ‘ I guess the heat of the day got to the top of my head . |
| 12 | The huge trees offered shade from the sun , but their deep sprays of leaves seemed to trap and intensify the heat of the day . |
| 13 | And the heat of the day , combined with a natural anxiety , made me sweat , though not as profusely as Dr Reid , who was continually wiping his pink , bald head . |
| 14 | Supporters of this generally held theory point to the tiger 's thick fur and heavy layer of fat ; also to its need to keep cool in the hot climates in which it now lives by immersing itself in water whenever it can during the heat of the day . |
| 15 | It was late evening , close to twilight , but the heat of the day made the atmosphere baking , the air very still . |
| 16 | So I strolled amid the base huts sheltering those far-flung operatives of commerce , waiting for the heat of the day to draw the moisture from my 60/40 silk/viscose trouser mix . |
| 17 | To avoid the heat of the day we went out in the mornings , waking while it was still dark . |
| 18 | They followed him out of the camp in single file and headed along the riverbank , making for watering places where buffalo liked to wallow in the heat of the day . |
| 19 | Crawling through the thick grass with heavy rifles in the heat of the day left all three of them gasping for breath . |
| 20 | Only the day before , those noble , horned beasts had been filing unsuspectingly through the long grass of the plain , intending to wallow harmlessly in some cool place through the heat of the day . |
| 21 | Ploughing was particularly burdensome to the oxen during the heat of the day , and by finishing at noon they would escape the greater part of it . |
| 22 | Take off early morning before the heat of the day , and back in England for an easy onward journey by 0800 . |
| 23 | Dusk on a still and balmy evening , after the heat of the day has passed , is the time when you can really appreciate the full fragrance of flowers . |
| 24 | I pulled the ring-top from the can and drank greedily , for the heat of the day and the kiln 's hot breath had parched my throat . |
| 25 | His simple , expensive tunic hung straight , without the least sign of a crease or a sweat stain , despite the heat of the day and the advanced hour of morning . |
| 26 | The humours , the heat of the day . |
| 27 | Blinds drawn down in the heat of the day had made an oasis of quiet shadow , a source of energy that could be drawn on now like a pool of pure water guarded from the dust of the track . |
| 28 | She was wearing a bright red dress , shiny black boots , and despite the heat of the day a black feather boa to match the huge feathers in her large picture hat . |
| 29 | In spite of the heat of the day , her teeth had begun to chatter . |
| 30 | The stone harboured the heat of the day 's sun . |