Example sentences of "day at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always sworn to herself that she would never impose on her daughter 's marriage 2. ) but she knows now that she can not possibly decline an invitation to spend the rest of her days at her son-in-law 's house . |
| 2 | Here the engineers have to carry out most of their work on Sundays when traffic is light , but this often entails diversions and extended journey times followed by temporary speed restrictions for a few further days at the beginning of each week . |
| 3 | Thus Pound in January 1946 , in his first days at St Elizabeth 's , appealing in terror at the prospect of losing whatever sanity remained to him . |
| 4 | They went ahead in the 30th minute when Tommy Gaynor skipped away from a couple of tackles and let fly from 25 yards : no sign of gratitude there for Eoin Hand , Huddersfield 's manager , who had helped along his fellow-Irishman 's career in the early days at Limerick . |
| 5 | The tournament , which runs for six days at Pontin 's Holiday Club , in Brixham , south Devon , has 70 competitors taking part . |
| 6 | After two days at home with my parents , I was again at the railway station , this time catching the early evening train to Fort William . |
| 7 | The Association was represented at the ‘ At Home ’ Days at RAF Leuchars , RAF Finningley , RAF Abingdon and RAF St Athan . |
| 8 | In the very year when , after taking British citizenship and joining the Church of England , he wrote the famous ‘ Preface ’ to For Lancelot Andrewes ( dedicated to Eliot 's mother ) , Eliot was recalling his own childhood in his introductory remarks to This American World , and his days at Fishermen 's Corner in Gloucester . |
| 9 | In those early pre-TV Saturday afternoon matinee days at the Ideal cinema in Carrickfergus , only two movies broke the mould for me and lodged themselves forever in the imagination : The Wizard of Oz and Darby O'Gill and the Little People . |
| 10 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |
| 11 | After a few days at Broadlands , they flew to Gibraltar to join the Royal Yacht Britannia for a two-week cruise in and around the Mediterranean . |
| 12 | The man who ran the office was Michael Colborne , a chief petty officer whom Charles had become friendly with aboard HMS Norfolk , during his early days at sea . |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher has been convinced by her Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , from his days at overseas development that there is an important role for Britain to play in helping countries like Brazil to manage its forests correctly . |
| 14 | Mr Robert Cole , a CND vice-chairman , was jailed for 14 days at Blaenau Ffestiniog , Gwynned , for refusing to pay a £150 fine imposed after he chained himself to a container of nuclear waste last August .. |
| 15 | He starts with the pioneering days at Brooklands and has taken care not to omit the Donington grands prix in 1937-38 where Germany 's Auto Unions and Mercedes were so dominant . |
| 16 | Stockport 's second victory in four days at Edgeley Park moved them into second position in the Fourth Division . |
| 17 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 18 | WITH the approach of Memorial Day , the official start of summer , all right-thinking Americans are looking forward to long days at the beach . |
| 19 | In 1945 , Lucian Oldershaw , with E. C. Bentley a member of the History Eighth at St Paul 's when it was first created in July 1893 , recalled Thomas at school and during his early days at Oxford : |
| 20 | He ran his own business , and worked almost round the clock , so was away for days at a time . |
| 21 | The fact that , unlike men , women 's periods of bodily emission followed a regular and extended ( i.e. several days at a time ) cycle meant that they were declared unclean for a large part of their lives ( for details see below ) . |
| 22 | A friend of mine had one of those awful days at work when she felt like hitting everyone and shouting at everybody in sight . |
| 23 | Many owners can not stand the thought of their animal going without sustenance for two or three days at a time , but the dog will inevitably eat when it is hungry enough . |
| 24 | ‘ This young lad was getting people to mind Sam for a few days at a time . |
| 25 | Our slimmer is never above 9 st 4 lb ( 59.0 kg ) , spends most days at 9 st 3 lb ( 58.5 kg ) , and goes as low as 9 st O lb ( 57.2 kg ) . |
| 26 | A tall , well-built mare , she first encroached on the English racing scene in spring 1983 : she came second to Sabin Du Loir in the Sun Alliance Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival ; three weeks later , ridden by her trainer 's son Tony , she ran on successive days at Liverpool , winning on the Friday and the next day running Gaye Brief , fresh from his Champion Hurdle success , to a length . |
| 27 | Yet the magical city had not yet finished with me , for I somehow found myself in a dark little wood-panelled bar , with a cosy snug in the rear , and a counter near the door left over from the pub 's grocery-bar days at the turn of the century . |
| 28 | The lake grew narrow and we were at Enniskillen , where once I had spent many happy days at the Railway Hotel and Irish musical nights at the Cove Bar . |
| 29 | At first I could not devote so much time to the orchestra but by the early 1960s I was coming to a position where I was able to be with the orchestra a very great deal , working for eight or ten days at a time on concerts , records , and films . |
| 30 | David and his pals spent long summer days at the local swimming pool and they were out to impress the girls . |