Example sentences of "[art] great day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel donned his navy silk pyjamas and paisley dressing gown on the great day and prayed that nobody would be sick over him . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't think I am going to wear that trash , do you ? ’ she had said when the great day came ; and wondered why he had ‘ got into one of his passionate tempers ’ ( poor little disappointed boy ! ) |
| 3 | The great day came when I finally untied him . |
| 4 | Described as a colourful character , with his shovel hat and official cloak , he met with an accident on the great day and was tipped from a cart . |
| 5 | For more than a week before the great day we were collecting anything that would burn and literally dozens of individual fires began taking shape in what was known amongst boys as ‘ The Crot ’ . |
| 6 | Another unwritten law was that no fire was lit before dark , so the period of dusk on the great day seemed never ending . |
| 7 | Before the great day of their departure came , I experienced the sadness of France for one of her very brave sons . |
| 8 | During the whole of the great day we had most wonderful food . |
| 9 | Finally , the great day dawned . |
| 10 | ‘ I know the one whom I have trusted , ’ writes Paul from his prison cell , ‘ and am confident of his power to keep safe what he has put into my charge until the great day . ’ |
| 11 | to put the finishing touches for the great day . |
| 12 | Almost the brightest episode in the history of St John 's College , Rangoon , concerns the great day when the boys defeated the crack army team for the Burma Championship . |
| 13 | Mr Frizzell , before the unfortunate episode with Betty , had been prevailed upon to donate four old , though still serviceable , tyres ; and finally the great day arrived when he backed it slowly out of the garage and drove it round to his own home in the vague hope that his mother might like to see it . |
| 14 | Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes . |
| 15 | The great day of a NatWest Trophy final is certainly not the time for that . |
| 16 | When the great day came her friends called for her . |
| 17 | And at last , in June 1172 , when he was fourteen years old , the great day came when Richard was formally installed as Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 18 | let them sweetly dream that in Britain the great day has come at last . |
| 19 | And then the great day itself — June Two Two , as they called it — it was as if the excitement could no longer be contained . |
| 20 | They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day . |
| 21 | At last the great day came . |
| 22 | It was by then mid-May , so I calculated that the great day would be 23 August . |
| 23 | While waiting for the great day we watched nearly every match of the 1990 World Cup , particularly the progress of England and Ireland in the early rounds . |
| 24 | The great day in the calendar is actually 5 December . |
| 25 | Then the great day dawned . |
| 26 | However I had no wish to disappoint everyone concerned by postponing by visit to the Palace and , with a lot of help from friends and family I finally made it to London on the great day albeit a shadow of my former self . |
| 27 | The earth and and my mother and the great day waits |
| 28 | For the great day of his wrath is come . |
| 29 | Time and the great day fluttered round our bodies . |
| 30 | ‘ Find another dressmaker , ’ he said calmly as though it were the most natural thing in the world to have a wedding dress that did n't fit on the eve of the great day . |