Example sentences of "i one day " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Someone will have to explain this game to me one day , ’ I said , mournfully .
2 ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day .
3 It was my philosophy professor , a native of the Antilles , who recalled the fact to me one day : ‘ Whenever you hear anyone abuse the Jews , pay attention because he is talking about you ’ .
4 It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away .
5 ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition .
6 ‘ You 'll thank me one day , ’ he told them .
7 After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show .
8 I had a young fellow come up to me one day — he had eighteen months ' service .
9 Superintendent said to me one day , ‘ You do n't like this fellow very well . ’
10 Feeling desperate and willing to try anything , Kirsty finally came to see me one day in early spring .
11 Before I left , I asked if she would come to see me one day .
12 Has it to do with what you said as you 'd tell me one day ? ’
13 ‘ Listen boy , ’ he said , addressing the son and ignoring Matilda , ‘ seeing as you 'll be going into this business with me one day , you 've got to know how to add up the profits you make at the end of each day .
14 My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’
15 She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did .
16 Well , there were n't so many old people then when we came here we were classed as one of the oldest people because er they were all very young people and you were talking about Dame Leah Manning and she came to me one day and she said we 're going to have a problem on the town because it 's a very young town .
17 ‘ You ought to come and visit me one day .
18 For instance , Denis Hamilton — a totally fair journalist , but an incorrigible Conservative — came to see me one day to warn me that The Times was prepared to break the newspaper silence that had until then , with the exception of Private Eye , been maintained by all news sources about her two illegitimate children .
19 ‘ Tell me more about your country , ’ he said to me one day .
20 ‘ What are we going to do , Toby ? ’ he said to me one day .
21 was friends with him , let him mind me one day .
22 But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't .
23 ‘ If you want to do something useful , ’ my mother said to me one day , ‘ you can help me propagate the cactuses . ’
24 M. Would you read one to me one day ?
25 He showed me one day what he called his killing-bottle .
26 He rang me one day and asked if he could bring something down .
27 What would happen if I loved him more than he loved me , and if he were to cheat on me one day ?
28 I 'm afraid you might reject me one day for what I 've done .
29 The American captain of a supply ship was chatting to me one day and asked me where we were based .
30 Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . "
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