Example sentences of "[unc] day [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rigorists rejected compromise : they would surrender nothing and understood it to be of the essence of their Christian allegiance that every Lord 's day they would unfailingly celebrate the eucharist . |
| 2 | In my father 's day they would not have dared even to think like that ! |
| 3 | On New Year 's Day they briefly topped the division , but since then have lost players and impetus . |
| 4 | On New Year 's Day they briefly topped the division , but since then have lost players and impetus . |
| 5 | On New Year 's Day they topped the division for a couple of hours . |
| 6 | On New Year 's Day they topped the division for a couple of hours . |
| 7 | On St. Patrick 's Day we found out = . |
| 8 | After the mixed card on St Patrick 's Day we are back to an all National Hunt affair and the main race , the Sportsman Hunter Chase , may go to Bajan Blues who almost brought off the shock defeat of Matt Reid at the last meeting . |
| 9 | On the afternoon of New Year 's Day we reached the road end , picked the car up and returned to Queenstown . |
| 10 | On his saint 's day she summons him into her inmost boudoir , dismisses her girls , permits him to braid her hair and for a moment to fondle her breasts . |
| 11 | If we 'd been around in Nelson 's day he 'd have given his right arm for a copy . |
| 12 | Normally on New Year 's Day he would be at home with Mandy . |
| 13 | On Father 's Day he 'll have a lie-in and get loads of presents — a chocolate , a jumper and a T-shirt , which he 'd probably like ‘ Daddy ’ written on . ’ |
| 14 | On Father 's Day he 'll ask me and my brother to bring him cornflakes in bed and a cup of tea . |
| 15 | By Valentine 's day I was five weeks late |
| 16 | On Saint Theresa 's day I had to paint a frieze of watercolour rose petals to run the length of the classroom walls . |
| 17 | On Father 's Day I think what he 'd like best is to go shopping and then he 'll take me out , to Dunstable Downs to see the gliders . ’ |
| 18 | During a hot summer 's day you would n't be able to move for frazzled tourists but when the weather is miserable it 's a different story . |
| 19 | A furniture shop of some sort there where the used to be the Spar shop I think , many years ago was n't it like a have n't been there for , probably about since , Morris 's day you see , and that service station . |
| 20 | Mother 's Day you 're , we 're all still here I said wear this and I 'm sorry but |
| 21 | In Eliza Vaughan 's day it was said of Courtfield : ‘ You nearly break your neck going , but more nearly break your heart leaving there . ’ |
| 22 | As in Miss Austen 's day it was universally accepted that a young unmarried man with a house and fortune was in need of a wife , so Mrs Girdlestone might have been beguiled into accepting a somewhat similar assumption that one elderly lady living alone is in need of an even more elderly lady to live with her ( prudently stipulating , however , the three months only , in case she should wish to draw back ) . |
| 23 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 24 | Midsummer 's Day it was . |
| 25 | In Elizabethan days , rosemary shoots were tied with coloured ribbon , tipped with gold and given to guests at weddings to symbolize love and faithfulness , and on New Year 's Day it was a gift for guests , together with an orange stuck with cloves . |
| 26 | Then very shortly after her birth on New Year 's Day it was realised she had a heart problem . |
| 27 | But in Locke 's day it was normal and Locke 's contemporaries I think would have had no problem understanding this what he meant . |
| 28 | In Noah 's day , if you go back to Noah 's day it was exactly the same now , is n't that what Jesus said justice in the days of Noah , so it will be in there somewhere , they were eating and drinking and marrying and doing all the things that you , you know , you and I do today is n't it ? |
| 29 | And his voice now , too , angry and loud , ‘ Rosette — one day I will strangle you . ’ |