Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 2 | The Bride 's Book will help you keep a perfect record of your relationship from the moment you met through to the big day . |
| 3 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
| 4 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 5 | We played late on the first day and I went round in the morning spotting the pin positions , trying to get a feel for the course so I could give the right information to Nick . |
| 6 | Under Resolution 45/226 , adopted unanimously on the same day , the Assembly also called for emergency relief for Sudan , noting " the continuing negative impact of persistent natural disasters and armed conflict " in the country . |
| 7 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 8 | ‘ We recall the long established principle of the UK Parliament , stretching back to 1860 and before , and reasserted even during the dark days of the Second World War , against taxing knowledge , reading , ideas and the demand for literacy and information . |
| 9 | Leopold 's grudging blessing arrived by post the next day . |
| 10 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 11 | The luck of the 401st on the 27th turned completely around the next day . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The situation quietened somewhat in the following days , as Serbia despatched 2,000 police reinforcements to the province ; at the same time , however , the neighbouring republic of Slovenia withdrew its police contingent on Feb. 4 . |
| 15 | He was appointed on 3rd September 1860 , and signed officially on the following day : |
| 16 | The band failed to advise said fans , who have endured a five-year wait to see them play live in the UK , that tickets went on sale last Saturday , and sold out on the same day . |
| 17 | She rang in on the fifth day to say she was no better and did n't feel she was getting anywhere . |
| 18 | We started off in the old days , just tuning the top string down to D. It 's funny , but we used to do that before we 'd tune the bottom ones down . |
| 19 | One of his favourite cakes was a sticky gingerbread which she made frequently in the cold days of winter . |
| 20 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |
| 21 | Most letters asked for autographs or photographs , some complained of or praised a person interviewed or view expressed , and there was always a sprinkling of old dears short of correspondents who rambled on about the old days . |
| 22 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 23 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 24 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 25 | Bombay : Prices fell sharply for the second day running . |
| 26 | All went well until the dreadful day when Killigrew was away and a letter arrived for Mistress A. Killigrew . |
| 27 | This had been predictable ; and the opposition increased rapidly in the succeeding days . |
| 28 | He spoke out on the last day of Labour 's Scottish conference in Inverness , which ended with the party in better spirits than organisers could have dared hope even a week ago . |
| 29 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
| 30 | As the military mutiny dragged on for the sixth day , President Corazon Aquino asked Filipinos to ‘ join hands and consolidate our resources to rebuild what we have destroyed ’ . |