Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The show that underlined changing days was the Oxford review , Beyond The Fringe , with its mild demolition job on national pretensions which had been the Conservatives ' stock-in-trade since 1951 . |
| 2 | Within minutes of the prime ministers sitting down at 4.15 p.m. , we had constructed the wording of what became Early Day Motion number 174 , and which read as follows : |
| 3 | Eight patients received alternate day treatment for periods varying between two and 12 months . |
| 4 | Another rural trade union , the UN ) , formed in 1979 , organized rural day labourers in the departments of San Salvador and Chalatenango . |
| 5 | The Timbury report ( 1979 ) envisaged specialist day facilities attached to the " continuing care homes " for old people with dementia . |
| 6 | Both council agreed present day value of the award in that case would be in the vicinity of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds . |
| 7 | Men who had formed associations to go hill-walking , cycling , even mountaineering , clutching pamphlets like Initial Efforts on the Boulder Face , or Coping with Crevices , and spent long days toiling up braes and free-wheeling down glens , now had a wage to earn . |
| 8 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 9 | Those MPs who succumbed to the pressures of Party democracy brought their golf clubs with them and spent long days on the sandy links of Southport and elsewhere , returning to their hotels in the evening to take part in an entertainment such as the Agents ' dinner and dance . |
| 10 | In my early struggling days as a writer I spent occasional days as a film extra . |
| 11 | Cos we walked other day |
| 12 | They observed holy days and rules of diet and put on black hats and went to the Synagogue . |
| 13 | 14 August : The Royal National Institute for the Blind 's action packed fun day at Court Place Farm , Marsh Lane , Marston , Oxford . |
| 14 | Hay-making meant long days and tough work , all by hand . |
| 15 | The opportunities for commercial exploitation of the hiking boom were grasped readily by the railway companies who offered cheap day returns to hikers . |
| 16 | And even though the courtesy coaches which run three times a week to Ierapetra and Sitia got booked days in advance , local buses were reliable and cheap . |
| 17 | Cos I 've watch it , recor record it a couple of times , but I did n't realize they each had different days . |
| 18 | They had warm days and clear , cold nights when they sat round the camp fires or stood guard over the horses . |
| 19 | The camera hones in on a platinum blonde Madonna , poured into a slinky , strapless white dress that she swears ‘ took more fittings than I had shooting days in the movie ’ . |
| 20 | She had good days and bad . |
| 21 | We had great days , on Cader or Craig yr Ysfa , at Tremadog or in the Moelwyns . |
| 22 | A fair result in the end , Leeds dominated most of the second half especially after scoring the second goal — however a number of players had poor days on the whole ( Macca , Strach , White ) and some had a downright shit day — Deane and Hodge . |
| 23 | ‘ When I was at Island we had open days consisting of a succession of 40 minute meetings . |
| 24 | She said I have my good days and my bad days , said I had bad day yesterday not too bad . |
| 25 | Visits to Dunfermline became holy days , later corrupted to holidays , and the town would have resembled a teeming holiday camp , says Mr Putter , with bed and breakfast the biggest industry . |