Example sentences of "[verb] they on the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 2 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 3 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 4 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 5 | Timing is also of the essence — flowers can be sent to you through the post as soon as the special event is over , but the best option is to be able to press them on the very day that they are used . |
| 6 | In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day . |
| 7 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 8 | APT is the last building block in a set of systems — blessed with the contrived name LIFFEforce — which will allow exchange members and their clients fast and competitive access to the markets , enabling them to track and record their positions and settle them on the same day . |