Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [art] day [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized that the cheerfully forceful woman I had seen the day before must have been Mrs Maureen Kenny herself . |
| 2 | ‘ I was so sick , I had to take a day off . |
| 3 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
| 4 | By ten-fifteen the next morning , 5 January , we had loaded the wheelbarrow on to the trailer and were driving to Adrar , along the section I had walked the day before . |
| 5 | I had taken a day off from my work , and I was doing a little gentle fishing in a river near Leithen 's house . |
| 6 | I got my staff to check on the Charlotte T. , and found that she had sailed the day after Andrew Stavanger wrote his letter . |
| 7 | The repugnance she had felt the day before seemed absurd , unjust . |
| 8 | She had spent the day nonstop before and after work preparing for the weekend . |
| 9 | She had chosen a day when only Paige was at home , the staff having taken their regular day off . |
| 10 | It was also unusual to have the batsman complain about seals swimming behind the bowler 's arm , but at least this allowed us to stop for drinks even more often than we had done the day before . |
| 11 | We had finished the day before . ’ |
| 12 | Obviously I was learning new things all the time and each day we built on what we had learned the day before . |
| 13 | It had begun the day before , the suggestion of going off on their own , hiring a car . |
| 14 | Some of the money raised would provide a Christmas party and disco for the children ; Anne remembered when it had provided a day out at Redcar . |
| 15 | The pains in his head had subsided , but he felt dizzy and sick , which he concluded was not surprising , considering the amount of alcohol he had drunk the day before . |
| 16 | He had said the day before that if he won the Canadian Open , ‘ Great , but if I do n't , no big deal . |
| 17 | Eating his bacon and eggs , ‘ Sunny-side up , ’ Sally-Anne had once said when she put his plate before him , drinking his coffee — he preferred it to everlasting tea , he said — he looked much better than he had done the day before ; no midnight drinking , Sally-Anne thought . |
| 18 | As we did so he explained he had taken the day off , instead of next Sunday , which would have been part of his free week-end . |
| 19 | Was he ever sober enough to write the articles he had mentioned the day before ? |
| 20 | Each time the mother tried to contact the girl 's father by phone she got some evasive reply from premises she thought he might have reached — either he had left the day before , or was busy with the accountant , so the poor woman set off herself to track him down . |
| 21 | He picked up his phone to find the Cambridgeshire sergeant to whom he had spoken the day before on the line . |