Example sentences of "[adv] for a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 2 | Everything cooks very slowly in a slo-cooker because the heating element is extremely gentle and costs no more to use than leaving a light bulb switched on for a day ( a few pence ) . |
| 3 | She thought and worked and grieved only for a day at a time . |
| 4 | In a sense , a very basic one , the riots were political : " a groping desire to settle accounts with the rich , if only for a day and to achieve some rough kind of social justice " . |
| 5 | but , it 's only for a day , so you do n't really know |
| 6 | She had been inside for a day . |
| 7 | Ask if you can come down for a day or two . |
| 8 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 9 | Diane locked herself in her bedroom and would n't come down for a day because she was afraid of her father 's anger . |
| 10 | Firms would invite favoured clients or business associates down for a day at Sandwich , either as a reward for past favours rendered or in the hope that the goodwill created would lubricate some future deal . |
| 11 | I picture you on a trip up to London , perhaps for a day 's work experience at the offices of some conglomerate . |
| 12 | ‘ Last Tuesday Nellie , my wife , had to go to hospital and they kept her in for a day and a night for eye tests . |
| 13 | Cos I 've let myself in for a day of temping . |
| 14 | PUPILS at a Middlesbrough school welcomed the Bishop of Whitby into their classrooms when he called in for a day 's visit . |
| 15 | but a more intricate type of operation , where you 've got to be in for a day , they 're not |
| 16 | After a preliminary strategic session in London , fields were divided into four cognate groups and each was visited separately for a day on the basis of a volume of field proposals and a critical review . |
| 17 | Sometimes she would stay away for a day or two . |
| 18 | She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came . |
| 19 | For once the preciseness of the words did not irritate Aggie , and she answered gently , ‘ I 'm sorry , love , but … but she 's had to go away for a day or two . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 21 | I may go through for a day you know . |
| 22 | I may go through for a day you know . |
| 23 | It might be possible to book them just for a day . |
| 24 | well I , apprehensive is the word really , but he , I think he came down the other , this week just for a day and spent back here and saw one or two people and I think he 's happier now |
| 25 | It was the fancy of the good Doctor to bring together , from time to time , a considerable number of men whose lives were devoted to the advancement of science , and to entertain them , not for a day merely , but for several days , so that they might discuss together , without hurry or excitement , those matters of practical and theoretical science which were at the moment engaging the attention of the scientific world . |
| 26 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |
| 27 | To avoid seeing Mr Boldwood , Bathsheba herself arranged to visit Liddy at her sister 's home for a day or two . |
| 28 | ‘ The Bamford Hunt always gathers in the Market Square on Boxing Day and after downing a glass or two of something sustaining , moves off for a day 's sport , watched by the local populace . |
| 29 | On the Saturday before our departure our group was sent off for a day 's grape picking at Puyloubier , the rest home for injured and retired former legionnaires , in the foothills of Provence , about two hours ' drive from Aubagne . |
| 30 | ‘ So we 're bunking off for a day or two . |