Example sentences of "a long day [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 2 | Most accountants would be only too happy to go home and put their feet up after a long day at the office . |
| 3 | He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy . |
| 4 | It had been a long day at the end of a busy week , but that was n't all of it . |
| 5 | After a long day at the office Richard likes nothing more than to drive home to his little pad in Huntley for a quiet night in with 21 year old , Sarah . |
| 6 | Despite a long day of rehearsals , and a long tiring performance , Gracie was the life of the party , and her homey Lancashire friendliness made everyone love her . |
| 7 | After a long day of wiping her son 's eyes , arse and office floors , mummy was often too exhausted to continue the struggle . |
| 8 | It 's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees , and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it . |
| 9 | After a long day of presentations , the angels and the businessmen finally get together in the traditional way . |
| 10 | The secret of a long day of battle was fitting the components together : the state of caution ; the state of preparedness ; the state of uncaring action ; the state of elation ; the state of waiting ; so that each stage matched the others in sureness and strength , with every thread of body and mind strung to its finest pitch ready to sing to the touch , from one night 's sleep until the next , or until death itself . |
| 11 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
| 12 | ‘ But it 's been a long day for Sam , so if you do n't mind I 'll send him home . |
| 13 | It must have been a long day for a boy of that age . |
| 14 | It had been a long day for our guests , as they had left La Loupe at 1Opm on the Friday evening , so it was home to bed for a good night 's sleep , ready for a full day exploring on the Sunday . |
| 15 | It 'll be a long day for him wo n't it ? |
| 16 | If you have spent a long day on the airfield , it will be difficult to refuse your turn to fly , even if you are tired . |
| 17 | The EVA wedge at the heel gives good shock absorption , but I wish it travelled the whole length of the boot as I find the balls of my feet get sore after a long day on the hill . |
| 18 | The morning was growing , lengthening into a day , a long day to be filled with acts of kindness . |
| 19 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 20 | Right now it 's the end of a long day in London and the 48-year-old Young prowls the room with a stooped , rangy gait , the traces of a roguish grin on his well-worn face . |
| 21 | There are , of course , great temptations for an interviewer to classify respondents into categories where they are most needed rather than where they really belong , especially when the job is nearly complete and respondents from particular categories seem rare or , perhaps understandably , at the end of a long day in the rain and the cold . |
| 22 | Knowing that she had a long day in front of her , Laura decided to follow her friend 's good example . |
| 23 | Tomorrow will be a long day in the auction house with no room to move . |
| 24 | This last is one of the first essentials of a true Suffolk ; for it was bred for use on the farm , and for use on the Suffolk farms in particular , where it was the custom for the horses to work a long day from 6.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. without nosebag or any break for rations . |
| 25 | They forced themselves to eat the porridge , the eggs fresh from the nest , for they had a long day before them . |
| 26 | There 's not much time for socialising as it 's a long day until five , plus work at home . |