Example sentences of "[vb past] the day " in BNC.
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| 1 | We next met the day he arrived in Normandy . |
| 2 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 3 | He interviewed him for U and they passed the day together . |
| 4 | Mr and Mrs Reynolds , the stoma care nurse and the ward sister agreed the day on which Mr Reynolds would go home . |
| 5 | Participants I spoke to afterwards found the lectures useful and interesting , but it was the mock trials that made the day . |
| 6 | THIS LEASE made the day of One thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven between Albert Hardcastle of The Gamekeeper 's Cottage Highfields near Scunthorpe in the County of Humberside Farmer ( hereinafter called the Landlord ) of the one part and Adam Swannson of 1 Delderfield Close The Kentish Hexagon near Westerham Kent Haulier ( hereinafter called the Tenant ) of the other part WITNESSETH as follows : |
| 7 | " Scald a sufficient quantity of fruit , and pulp it through a sieve , add sugar agreeable to taste , make a thick layer of this at the bottom of your dish : mix a pint of milk , a pint of cream , and the yolks of two eggs : scald it over the fire , observing to stir it : add a small quantity of sugar , and let it get cold : then lay it over the apples or gooseberries with a spoon , and put on the whole a whip [ a syllabub ] made the day before . |
| 8 | This is an appeal by a father , ex parte in the rather unusual circumstances of this case , from the refusal of Judge Galpin in the Portsmouth County Court on 18 March 1992 , only a few days ago , to make a residence order or a prohibited steps order or a specific issue order on an ex parte application made the day before by a father in connection with a snatch , and a potential snatch of the rest of the children of the family . |
| 9 | I will end with a quote from one of the volunteers at the Gwili Railway , made the day after Roger died . |
| 10 | 1.7 " Building Contract " means a contract for the carrying out of the Works made the day of between ( 1 ) the Landlord as employer and ( 2 ) ( name ) of ( address ) as contractor |
| 11 | So , that made the day a bit more interesting , but he 's been stuck with er , all these upper class councillors that telling him what his job is , and |
| 12 | Protein , index and pedigree ruled the day at the fifth Hayleys Invitational Sale in Essex last week , with breeders failing to dig as deeply into their pockets as in previous years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The 1979 general election ‘ because we got the day off school ’ provided the nine-year-old with his first political memory . |
| 16 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 17 | The suspension tarnished the day for the Irishman who joined Peter Scudamore at the top of the jockeys ' table mark after landing a double . |
| 18 | He switched off from the incident , lay back and analysed the day 's events . |
| 19 | The match , staged at Sheffield United 's ground , drew the day 's best League attendance of 8,000 . |
| 20 | The spokesman said the report had been aimed at overshadowing the Qods Day protest , held on the last Friday of Ramadan since the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dedicated the day to anti-Israeli demonstrations in 1979 . |
| 21 | In another letter to his mother he described the day 's events : |
| 22 | Helmut Kohl , the Federal Chancellor , described the day as " one of the happiest moments of my life " and declared that " Germany is our fatherland , the united Europe our future " . |
| 23 | The taxpayer bank 's foreign exchange department continually monitored the day to day situation and decided what certificates should be purchased and at what time before maturity they should be sold . |
| 24 | Meanwhile The same issue of The Northern Echo that reported the loss of the Titanic , and provided the headlines which asserted that all aboard were safe , dutifully reported the day 's events in the North-East . |
| 25 | Murderer Steven Mynott , 29 , and Phillip Ayres , 25 , fled the day after improvements to a 17ft security fence were approved by the Prison Department . |
| 26 | Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh . |
| 27 | The season 's finale was the annual festival ending with the presentation of the ‘ Fair Play Award ’ by GM to the team who , in the opinion of the Umpire , approached the day in the true spirit of the game . |
| 28 | In bed , Mungo reviewed the day . |
| 29 | Their life completely changed the day George had his stroke . |
| 30 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |