Example sentences of "a day [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother used to er whe when we were younger used to come down the for a days ' scrubbing , charring . |
| 2 | Out of that I had to find , threepence a day erm bus fare . |
| 3 | Whenever you face another gastronomic delight , or simply after a day 's touring , a bottle of chilled local wine completes a perfect picture . |
| 4 | Ferrets must become used to wearing a muzzle long before they are fitted with one for a day 's ferreting . |
| 5 | old one still had a day 's life left in it . |
| 6 | Well , at that time my best pal went to the pit , his mother would n't let him enter in th for scholarship , but he did happen to come here for , Well , he seemed to always get a day 's day release from the year dot , I think , and er eventually he got some A levels . |
| 7 | The club received several complaints about unruly behaviour during the first Test at Old Trafford , and ‘ is determined not to allow the antics of a small minority ruin the enjoyment of a day 's cricket , ’ according to Chief Executive John Bower . |
| 8 | Never had a day 's illness in your life ! ’ |
| 9 | If you 've never had a day 's illness in your life , it 's hard to imagine the financial disruption that can be caused by sudden hospitalisation . |
| 10 | Just because you are thin and never suffer a day 's illness does not mean that you can embark on an energetic walking programme without building up to it . |
| 11 | Harriet , who had hardly had a day 's illness in her life — unless she counted a bad attack of shingles some years previously — had at first been inclined to ignore her husband 's remarks . |
| 12 | She 'd never had a day 's illness in her life , but Timothy 's future was beginning to prey on her mind . |
| 13 | She has n't had a day 's illness in her life . ’ |
| 14 | Apart from that I 've never had a day 's illness in my life ; never been in bed a whole day . |
| 15 | At Howard she had hardly known a day 's illness . |
| 16 | I 've never had a day 's illness in my life , thank you very much . ’ |
| 17 | At the end of a day 's trading , the retailer needs to know exactly how much money he has taken . |
| 18 | Managers buy stock-index futures at the beginning of a day 's trading , which tends to raise the price of the underlying shares . |
| 19 | ‘ And take something for yourself ; you must have lost a day 's trading to chase after us . ’ |
| 20 | It was too early for me to be a Yuckie — the tabloid newspapers ' shorthand for the young city slickers who celebrated the end of a day 's trading with too much lager and then reverted to type as the football hooligans they really were under the skin . |
| 21 | They 've cleared a trapping ground , half a day 's tracking to the south . |
| 22 | It was at Leeds that he carne to realize the value of a game of golf in relaxing his players , and in 1913 he introduced a day 's golf each week as part of regular training . |
| 23 | A day 's golf with the president of this company or that company when the fellow who makes up the four and plays with the president of the corporation just happens to be last year 's Masters Champion . |
| 24 | There is also a short section on the area around Milan , or , at least , those pads of it that can be comfortably reached in a day 's road or rail travel . |
| 25 | His Spanish ADC , General Alava , however , remembered to his dying day the way his heart sank on hearing his Commander cheerfully giving orders for ‘ cold meat at dawn ’ before a long day 's reconnaissance , or perhaps a day 's hunting in Portugal with his ‘ family ’ . |
| 26 | In fact , helping out with the dreary road and fitness work could result in you being offered a day 's hunting or perhaps a ride around a hunter trial or whatever . |
| 27 | They would certainly benefit from electrolytes at the end of a day 's hunting . |
| 28 | How often they 'd driven there in Frank 's car , towing the double trailer behind them , excited by the prospect of a day 's hunting with the Meath . |
| 29 | Rhinos were also considered a great trophy from a day 's hunting . |
| 30 | The kitchen was full of smoke , servants and Sara 's brothers , who had recently returned from a day 's hunting in the mountains and who were getting in everyone 's way by taking their boots off and leaving them to steam before the flames . |