Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beach is all of fifty metres away across the road and is great for lazy days sunbathing . |
| 2 | Nine-day Caribbean fly-cruises start at around £700 and £450 in the Mediterranean for lazy days of sunshine , and inclusive food and entertainment . |
| 3 | 1 What are the reasons for the demand for full-time day care ? |
| 4 | What are the main reasons prompting the demand for full-time day care ? |
| 5 | I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days . |
| 6 | Mr Moynihan indulges in nostalgia for departed days ; like Milton 's devils , he writes , men have made themselves smaller to enter new prison cells . |
| 7 | He used to for different days for grave digging |
| 8 | ‘ It would be another tragedy for the able child from the non-affluent home , but there are several places where parents will favour abandoning the state sector and setting up as economical day schools . ’ |
| 9 | This 18th-century sweet preserve was traditionally made for high days and holidays . |
| 10 | So during windy days you do better working burrows with entrances unaffected by wind . |
| 11 | You bought some bloody jogging shoes ( not just jogging shoes , with air-suspension heels , but shorts , two T-shirts , two pairs of running socks , a sweatshirt , a book on dieting and exercise , and a rowing machine/fitness centre for wet days costing £117.85 ) . |
| 12 | Rejoice in the Lord always , a great text for carefree days . |
| 13 | For patron-saint days in the country the table was usually prepared out of doors , in the shade of a large tree . |
| 14 | My father described to me how the Guides had arrived and gone straight into action after marching day and night from the Punjab ; how Nicholson had been killed leading the troops as they stormed the ramparts of Delhi . |
| 15 | After previous days ' lovely weather , disappointed that visibility was poor and it rained most of the time . |
| 16 | Medau provides an essential change of pace , after hectic days in the fast-moving computer business . |
| 17 | After long days and nights alone I would wake in the mornings wondering if this new day would bring a new poem from you , a new smile as you ran dancing towards me on your boxer 's turned-in toes . |
| 18 | And Colt , after long days of torture , had recognised in the Colonel someone he could like , someone whose trust he would value . |
| 19 | In the evenings we trundled a wheelbarrow down to the banks of the Dee and collected driftwood for the fire , because at 500 feet above sea-level , even after roasting days , when the sun went down it was cool enough to need it . |
| 20 | After live days of torture and uncertainty , Topaz decided to accept Lovat 's offer . |
| 21 | And the ten days after open day are going to be mad . |
| 22 | and , the children have done that tie dying , and after open day , when most of their dollies will be finished soon |
| 23 | After successive days of heavy rain , the hollows before mentioned , become insufficient to receive the mighty volume of water which descends from the impending clouds upon them , and the maddening torrents are hurled from their rugged elevation with the awful roar of thunder : the grey rocks , occasionally tinted by pervading lichens , and still more beautifully enriched by many greened mosses resembling cushions of soft velvet , produce combinations of colour the most animated and superb , which , contrasted with the milky hue of the convulsed waters , form a picture of transcendent sublimity and beauty . ’ |
| 24 | At breakfast Johnson reminisced about early days in London , and suddenly , with a surprising ungallantry , disparaged a previous hostess , Lady Macdonald , wife of Sir Alexander from Armadale . |
| 25 | Here in Iceland , during dark days filled with music , we 've learned and listened and enjoyed . |
| 26 | for extra day scores then |
| 27 | All my examples run to quite high numbers , which suggests not only that they were a large early printing , but that they were used as ordinary day returns in later days . |
| 28 | Right now Britain is going through dark days — because the gang now in power are determined to destroy all the achievements of post-war British society , including the best in its education system . |
| 29 | The questions which must be asked are : i Do specialist multi-agency dementia teams provide a model for the planning and provision of domiciliary day and respite care for all or for a proportion of the sufferers in a community ? |
| 30 | 15 DAYS OF MOVEMENT AND DANCE Medau will be represented at a number of multi-movement days promoted by GL&SE Sports Council in conjunction with local authorities . |