Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] day [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evergreen winter foliage needs to stay looking fresh right through the darkest days and some variegated plants are better at this than others . |
| 2 | The authority had coincidentally tested the water for toxins on about the same day as the officer cadets had used it . |
| 3 | But only for the first day or so ; after a week I ca n't wait to return to Koraloona . ’ |
| 4 | So in the olden days before they had the , the alarm , the pager alarm |
| 5 | The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion . |
| 6 | Despite the salutary scepticism of David Hume this scholastic convention has survived right down to the present day and is perhaps best explained by saying that when intellectuals who have the mental habits of university professors are invited to specify the distinguishing criteria of human beings they end up by producing a self-image of themselves . |
| 7 | Ven looked at her levelly for all of one second , then , ‘ If you remember , ’ he answered , ‘ it was not until the next day that I knew that the beautiful green-eyed woman with stunning light gold hair was a ‘ journalist ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Mike spent more than 30 days waiting on one or other of the platforms , and it was not until the last day that the colobus monkeys came close enough for him to get good shots of them moving through the trees . |
| 9 | In a special feature , Graham also flicks through the seed catalogue from Victorian times right through to the present day and comes up with some very interesting results . |
| 10 | Well it 's quite fun just going off for the odd day cos then he goes off to see Ian , he enjoys that but it was two afternoons last week cos I did Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon |
| 11 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 13 | There was an exchange of letters which the editor , Bob Edwards , published coincidentally on the same day that Prince Charles flew to India and Nepal for an official tour . |
| 14 | The full-year result , announced coincidentally on the same day as its old foe Forte , which owns 69 p.c. of the ordinary shares , followed a first-half loss of £674,000 . |
| 15 | Anthropologists have continued to employ participant observation as their major method of data collection up to the present day but , from about the 1930s onwards , sociology and anthropology grew further and further apart . |
| 16 | The ongoing development is continued in the story right up to the present day and it is very interesting to see the numerous designs which have been tried , tested and put into operation . |
| 17 | As already mentioned , the defendant may submit a defence up to the return day and even at the pre-trial review if he or she is prepared to risk costs being awarded against him or her . |
| 18 | Obviously we do not want to be in two minds up to the last day and he would n't do that but there is quite a a period of discretion where the time gets shorter and er he would have to make a judgement . |
| 19 | I remember on one occasion the four of us went down to Glastonbury Fair where he sang , but due to a balls-up over the sound and the electricity , they did n't put him on until the next day and that was at about 5.00 in the morning when the sun came through . |
| 20 | Using the time after one has gone to bed can avoid interruptions ; 10–15 minutes per child is only a small time out of the whole day and it needs to be given high priority . |
| 21 | The Taunton 150 special anniversary ale almost sold out in the first day and most other stallholders enjoyed a brisk trade too ! |
| 22 | way back in the old days but Now then , |
| 23 | The Yorkshire Car Collection will be open from 28 March and thereafter between 10.00am and 5.00pm on the same days as Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is operating , as detailed in this leaflet . |
| 24 | By continuing on the diet plan the indiscretion will work its way out over the next day or two . |
| 25 | If you can go back to the first day that you arrived |
| 26 | He achieved little on the first day that he spent ‘ in the field ’ but on the second day he got into conversation with a group of men about a puppy that one was carrying . |
| 27 | On to the last day and Nicklaus — who was putting in a charge in front of us attempting the third part of the grand slam , having won the Masters and the US Open in 1972 — and everything was going reasonably well until the 7th , the hare hole . |
| 28 | And from a bonding point of view , breastfeeding — even for the first day or so — is very valuable . ’ |
| 29 | We have all heard of the addiction caused by long-term taking of tranquillisers but did you realise that the effect of sleeping pills can last well into the following day and many antihistamines ( commonly taken to relieve colds or allergies ) can make you so drowsy that you should not drive for some hours after taking them ? |
| 30 | She got told off for being late , but it was n't until the next day that Sally 's parents were phoned by the school who had heard about a gang of young people being at the hospital the previous night . |