Example sentences of "all day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hear about these artists , so-called , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , who work all day and all night , whose work is their passion . |
| 2 | He was gone all day , and come back late for supper . ’ |
| 3 | I was surprised because she 'd been throwing herself at him all day and not getting anywhere much . ’ |
| 4 | Anyway , you 're at home all day . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll have a stroll , ’ said the woman , ‘ have n't taken any exercise all day . ’ |
| 6 | Pre-Astrid , Jay had been in a dead job , art workshops with utterly disillusioned teenagers , every morning she coughed she rang in sick , malingering Mondays , rain seeped in the doors of the empty bus every morning , the bus to the High Street for the next bus , hoping to be early enough to miss the screaming leering sneering schoolgirls she had to face all day . |
| 7 | She wrote letters all day , floated around on a lilac cloud , heart beating scarlet with desire for Astrid and the tingling delight of waiting for when she would return . |
| 8 | It was raining ; by the look of the heavy , grey sky it would rain all day . |
| 9 | — But I just hang around the flat all day getting bored . |
| 10 | He aimed to increase off-peak travel in particular by enhancing the quality of travel and station environment by ‘ Operation Pride ’ , a name coined to launch the quality improvement drive , and by new and imaginative marketing exercises , one of the first of which was a ‘ Network Day ’ on 21 June when over 200,000 people took advantage of the special £3 ticket enabling them to travel all day anywhere . |
| 11 | ‘ I work with women all day and I go to the pub to get away from them ’ … |
| 12 | There was nothing to do all day so we just lay about . |
| 13 | Crisis meetings were held in Bonn and East Berlin all day , but Helmut Kohl , the West German Chancellor , was refused a telephone conversation with the East German leader , Erich Honecker . |
| 14 | Tokyo : Prices hardly moved all day in moderate trading , the Nikkei average ending just 16.43 points higher at 35,382.8 . |
| 15 | Weiner says that in the Eighties we 've gone past the ‘ grazing ’ stage , in which we picked at this and that all day long , to ‘ refuelling ’ : the pit-stop in which we shovel food in our mouths as fast as we can . |
| 16 | Like most large cities , it can no longer cope with the traffic that blocks the city centre almost all day and the Mayor of Paris , Jaques Chirac , presented a plan to the city fathers yesterday to restore the capital to its residents . |
| 17 | All day at home , planning a better route . |
| 18 | All through the service , and all day and night , people come and go , moving intently along the walls , listening and reading everything . |
| 19 | THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised . |
| 20 | Their shells had been passing over our positions from time to time all day , with a loud rush that sometimes appeared to shake the trees . |
| 21 | Are you going to lie there all day ? |
| 22 | We ca n't sit here all day ! ’ |
| 23 | We march all day , stopping from time to time at the sound of automatic fire somewhere just ahead . |
| 24 | The children saw not much of him because all day he was out at his duties and in the evenings he retired to his study to convert his lectures into books . |
| 25 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 26 | As well as being a mate of Yeti 's at school we worked together at Whiteleys , the department store in Queensway , on Thursday evenings after school and all day Saturday — for which we got paid the grand total of 36 shillings or £1.80 today . |
| 27 | The bonus for me was that the money was so much better than Whiteleys , Instead of getting 36 bob for Thursday evening and all day Saturday , Malcolm paid me three pounds 10 shillings — almost twice as much — for the Saturday only . |
| 28 | That 's all I 'd have to eat all day . |
| 29 | The wren-boys who had gone from house to house on the lorry all day were now scrubbed and combed , playing away cheerfully on raised planks . |
| 30 | You 're all day inside in school . |