Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 2 | When my oldest son Blair said farewell sadly to the Outer Hebrides and came to work in Aberdeenshire , my wife Ann and I arranged to spend a few days there , fishing and exploring a country that neither of us knew . |
| 3 | I started work the next day . |
| 4 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 5 | Er just out of interest I did ring the other day |
| 6 | I did drive the other day , yeah . |
| 7 | I liked to have a few days out in Middlesbrough , Sunderland or Newcastle but now I ca n't do this anymore and I 'm stuck in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 8 | As I said , I was somewhat annoyed in view of the definitive nature of the arrangement I had made the previous day , and the fact that no explanation or apology had been forthcoming . |
| 9 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |
| 10 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 11 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 12 | ‘ After two weeks away , I wanted to spend an extra day at home with my wife and three children , ’ said Smyth . |
| 13 | However , disagreements appeared less motivated by ideological differences than by issues of personality and style ( unlike the factionalism which had bedeviled the early days of the administration of Corazon Aquino , his presidential predecessor ) . |
| 14 | Rajiv Gandhi , the 46-year-old Congress ( I ) party president and former Prime Minister , was assassinated in southern India on May 21 , while campaigning in the general election which had started the previous day . |
| 15 | COMPARED to Wednesday 's winter blizzards , which had reduced the first day to 27 instead of 36 holes , the conditions for the Peter McEvoy Trophy at Copt Heath yesterday were wonderful — icy winds and leaden skies with just the occasional hint of a watery sun . |
| 16 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 17 | Everyone else has gone home , except the poor wretches who are spending the hols at school , and we three are independent citizens whom she invited to spend an extra day . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But you did spend the previous day with the King ? ’ |
| 20 | Mrs Redmond talked about Bridie 's babies , whom she had seen the previous day , and asked Anne about her grandmother . |
| 21 | He seemed quite a different man from the one she had met the other day across Mr. Crowther 's desk , quite different from the man who talked to Jenny this afternoon . |
| 22 | She had stayed a few days in a cheap hotel near the Bristol docks , too bruised mentally to contemplate going anywhere . |
| 23 | She had spent the entire day with him . |
| 24 | She had spent the previous day helping Janet to prepare Aunt Emily 's room for her mother . |
| 25 | She had spent the whole day , today , hoping it might happen again , but it had n't . |
| 26 | She had had a gruelling day on top of a gruelling six months . |
| 27 | Gardener John Tobin , of Speke , who had to wait an extra day for his £160-weekly wage , said : ‘ It 's a disgrace . ’ |
| 28 | On March 28 Gen. Chaovalit Yongchaiyut , 58 , who had resigned the previous day as Army C.-in-C. , announced that he would be joining the government as a Deputy Prime Minister and as Minister of Defence , ending widespread speculation about his political plans . |
| 29 | 13–6–1866 They appointed the first Sabbath in August for the dispensation of the Lord 's Supper and remonstrated with the Kirk Session in Kilmeny who had chosen the same day for their celebration . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , you 're on the right road , but I would say you had chosen the wrong day . ’ |