Example sentences of "[verb] [art] day " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | And while I 'm on , there 's another thing I 'll say : I regret the day I was made to marry him . |
| 32 | It had been posted the day they left for Algeria . |
| 33 | ‘ As Paddy put it , he would n't trust the Tories even at this late stage to carry the day , ’ one said . |
| 34 | Very soon , he knew , he would have to choose sides , and despite the success of tonight 's endeavour , and the security he 'd won with it , he was by no means sure that he belonged amongst the ranks of the purgers , even though they were certain to carry the day . |
| 35 | The anti Hunt campaigners believe they have enough to carry the day tomorrow . |
| 36 | One woman was sacked the day after her wedding to a rival firm 's employee . |
| 37 | I never thought I 'd live to see the day when a detective inspector would look like this . ’ |
| 38 | Though she never lived to see the day , six of her sons became priests and four of her daughters nuns . |
| 39 | That I should live to see the day when a British government would do this to us . |
| 40 | ‘ I thought I would never live to see the day . ’ |
| 41 | Farr-Jones presses further into uncharted territory : ‘ I want to see the day when rugby union is run by a professional sporting and marketing body . |
| 42 | I never thought to see the day , and all because I said I fiddled with wireless . |
| 43 | One day when the terrible moment comes and it is bound to come when we shall be talking of the Serb national catastrophe , when we shall be questioning ourselves about who was responsible for it and how it came about that we are the last nation in Europe to be surrounded by such enemies and such hatred , then many of the great brains of the Academy will find themselves in the dock if they live to see the day . |
| 44 | Then the sparks can fly , and if neither party is really aware of the power of their own minds as the true architect of such situations , anger and emotion will rule the day . |
| 45 | The flock also sold the day 's second highest entry taking 5000gns for a son of the 12,000gns Fordafourie Ferrari to Dublin District Milk Board , Co Meath , Eire . |
| 46 | The merchants were devout Muslims and their prayers in the patchy shade of the two courtyard trees , prefaced by elaborate washing , punctuated the day . |
| 47 | It had really wrecked the day . |
| 48 | splits the day up in such |
| 49 | However this would make the day rather short . |
| 50 | When I get back to base , bruised and battered , I brace myself for a reception that will make the Day of Judgment look like a Sunday School picnic . |
| 51 | Everyone from security guards to nurses and secretaries helped make the day go with a buzz . |
| 52 | ‘ I am in the pink , ’ said Dot , though she knew she was n't or she would n't have allowed herself to weep the day before . |
| 53 | After switching on the light he sat down behind his solid oak desk … made , on his orders , from Bittsevsky oak … , opened his leather-bound diary and scanned the day 's agenda . |
| 54 | One painting stimulates ideas for another so we never consciously have to plan the day — it happens . |
| 55 | Yes , I 've not started to plan the day yet . |
| 56 | It was a case of getting up late and trying to maek the day as short as possible . |
| 57 | Another letter , from February 1944 , asked how many would still be alive to enjoy the day the Führer had always promised them , when ‘ the sun would shine again ’ . |
| 58 | People in wheelchairs may find the tour difficult or impossible , depending on the site , but would still be able to enjoy the day . |
| 59 | Roads fan out from Lairg like the open fingers of a hand , each with its separate destination — Lochinver , Scourie , Kinlochbervie , Durness and Tongue — and the postal services along them were undertaken by MacBrayne 's buses which left the post offices in these places in the early morning , bringing the day 's collection to Lairg for despatch on the railway and returning with the incoming mail from the station . |
| 60 | The 1979 general election ‘ because we got the day off school ’ provided the nine-year-old with his first political memory . |