Example sentences of "[prep] christmas [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then after Christmas dinner I built this windmill and mother and I liked it and he said well its only screwed together , I nearly said well you wanted it any way , see , he wanted it and yet cos I got it , it were , any body could have it |
| 2 | But there was scarcely enough to colour the greyness of Christmas Day itself . |
| 3 | But on reflection , a quick little sub-committee meeting at the end of Christmas Day he said well we 've paid it now , but we are in fact , in hand |
| 4 | The electronic strains of a synthesized choir could be heard above the rumbling exhausts and Harry , gazing out at the tinsel-hung shopfronts , wondered if it was this jangling ubiquity of Christmas spirit which made his fellow men and women seem so dismally ignoble . |
| 5 | No If you want salad instead of Christmas lunch you have to sign comme e sta |
| 6 | If you knew Ted , and you probably do judging by the amount of Christmas cards he gets , then you would think twice about being wicked and disruptive for the sake of it . |
| 7 | Publishers rarely , if ever , charge for personal things like Christmas cards which are not to be offered for sale |
| 8 | The Pack Meeting Hall was now fairly bulging with Christmas gifts they had made or bought , or begged from their mothers . |
| 9 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 10 | Ronnie , 54 , hit the headlines when he thumped the mayor in the face after his civic car ran over Christmas lights he was stringing up in the centre of Frome , Somerset . |
| 11 | On Christmas Eve we also remembered to put out the cookies and milk for Santa . |
| 12 | At Christmas we went around houses singing carols but the best thing of all was when on Christmas eve we went to the local old peoples home to sing carols . |
| 13 | On Christmas Eve there was a party for the Variety folk . |
| 14 | On Christmas Eve I said Christ was born many years ago tonight . |
| 15 | On Christmas Eve I went with my mum to Mr Brown 's house . |
| 16 | On Christmas Eve my nine-year-old grandson James was admitted in the early evening for an emergency appendix operation . |
| 17 | Lo and behold , on Christmas Day their wishes came true , the stockings on the end of their beds bulging with goodies . |
| 18 | On Christmas Day we are having a family lunch , ’ she says . |
| 19 | And , I mean , actually on Christmas day we lost about ten people who 've been found ill . |
| 20 | On Christmas day they stopped sending aid to the country , because he had taken over its government yet again . |
| 21 | On Christmas Day he was moved out by a policeman , and that , he said , was when he lost his faith . |
| 22 | On Christmas Day he grieved over the loss of his ‘ second board of the season and nursed one useless half of it all afternoon . |
| 23 | I know what my problem is , so I think to myself at least on Christmas Day I can have one normal , decent day . |
| 24 | And what happens on Christmas Day itself ? |
| 25 | And on Christmas Day itself , although I was lonely , I thought of Vicky in Linlithgow surrounded by her family — and was happy for her . |
| 26 | Opening presents on Christmas morning it 's not just a case of opening presents is it ? |
| 27 | Nearer to Christmas time they are supplemented by college and older school students , some of whom already work in the store on late night shopping evenings or at the weekend . |
| 28 | they let them go out and they do n't know where they are , but the majority of of children that do it year in and running up to Christmas time they do exactly the same at Christmas , |
| 29 | And used to happen twice a year and erm sometimes somebody 'd remember my birthday or find that I had my birthday or and at Christmas time we used to get some money . |
| 30 | ‘ When we see the lights at Christmas time we are reminded that Jesus is with us , we are happy for we find new life . ’ |