Example sentences of "[prep] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | PANAMA CITY — Troops loyal to the Panamanian military leader , General Manuel Noriega , put down a coup attempt by junior officers in the capital yesterday after a day of heavy fighting , a spokesman for the Panama Defence Forces said . |
| 2 | HARARE ( Reuter ) — The Zimbabwean government ordered the indefinite closure of the country 's only university yesterday after a day of violent clashes between police and students protesting against the arrest of two of their leaders . |
| 3 | Toil , weather , human character and the quirks of animals are all graphically rendered , as well as the way in which newly-lifted potatoes glow ‘ like children 's shoulders after a day in the sun ’ , or in which the voice of a once-active young man now crippled by an accident becomes ‘ far-away , like a priest 's voice at the altar ’ . |
| 4 | After a day of legal drama mixed with financial farce , he was last night ‘ working on two or three options ’ , according to an associate , ‘ before deciding which one he 's going to run with ’ . |
| 5 | We stretch out in the lavvu which is pleasantly warm now after a day of the stove being ablaze . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ she said , ‘ I do sometimes , especially after a day like I 've had . |
| 7 | He would rise early to work at his desk and return to it after a day 's engagements , often until well past midnight . |
| 8 | After a day 's work , it was a bit of light relief to use it . |
| 9 | This was the hub of her universe and here the family assembled after a day 's work , in the coal-mine or ( like Edward 's beautiful elder female cousin ) the local tinworks . |
| 10 | You begin to wonder if you 've left the Earth 's atmosphere for another world after a day on the planet Tokyo . |
| 11 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 12 | The longhouses were a welcome break after a day 's trek and were a great experience . |
| 13 | After a day or two , the owner became irked , and went to the airport to inspect his plane . |
| 14 | He remembered playing a practical joke on Mr Major 's mother after a day 's orating . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , foreign ministers of the four ‘ nuclear ’ republics — Russia , Ukraine , Belarus and Kazakhstan — failed after a day of talks to agree on a formula for ratifying the 1991 US-Soviet START agreement that would cut strategic nuclear arsenals by up to a third . |
| 16 | The UN 's special envoy , Mr Benon Sevan , flew to Kabul last night after a day of talks with Mujahideen leaders , the Pakistani Prime Minister , Mr Nawaz Sharif , and Iran 's ambassador in Islamabad . |
| 17 | From the Board 's viewpoint the negative factors relating to evening courses were concerned mainly with the instructors , who might well be tired after a day 's work and might also be anxious about a long journey home afterwards . |
| 18 | It was not until Friday morning , after a day and a half had elapsed , that the real fault was diagnosed . |
| 19 | Once these images must have excited lust — enough to make someone take the trouble to cut them out and stick them up on the wall ; but after a day or two , or a week or two , the pictures had ceased to arouse , they had become familiar — faded and tattered and oil-stained , almost indistinguishable from the dirt and debris of the rest of the factory . |
| 20 | And if ever a man sleeps well after a day 's work done well that man is , and I pray God give him rest , Donald Templeton ! ’ |
| 21 | I conclude this survey of Ingleborough with the same reluctance I feel when leaving the mountain after a day spent in its company , aware that I have failed to do justice to an old friend . |
| 22 | Often there is no intention to frustrate the child ; the rejections — such as not listening to or fobbing off the child — may be the consequences of the parent 's being too busy with chores or being tired and irritable after a day 's work , and so forth . |
| 23 | Sneezing and fluent , bland coryza ; the mucous membranes of the nose may be swollen and after a day or two the coryza may extend to the larynx with a hard cough . |
| 24 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 25 | They wanted the house to be an informal place , somewhere to relax after a day on the beach . |
| 26 | After a day in the office , even I felt the benefit of the quiet ambience . |
| 27 | The large campsites always have large refreshment marquees with discos to enable everyone to unwind after a day 's racing . |
| 28 | After a day 's work and a trip to Wormwood Scrubs on a number 220 bus , arriving in the dark and perhaps the cold , I was not inclined to put in further effort . |
| 29 | Our visitor had little knowledge of the passions or indeed the psychology of small boys , for he casually admitted after a day or two that he had inscribed the Master 's name on the bat himself ! |
| 30 | At sunset , however , after a day sunning themselves on deck , in perfect invasion weather , and with not an English ship or soldier in sight , the French weighed anchor and left , leaving the news of their presence to be spread by beacons and horsemen all over Devon and Cornwall . |