Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 2 | That diary is filled in on every single day throughout that year — 1940 . |
| 3 | Now , thanks in no small measure to his own contribution to the Hampshire cause , he has one ; and the only disappointment is that the climax of the match was watched by only about 8000 people , as the weather caused it to be carried over into the second day . |
| 4 | First built at the time of Edward I , it has been occupied through to the present day . |
| 5 | Every Thursday is given over to a drop-in day , which is open to the previous year 's group to come back or to any girl on home-teaching , and sometimes girls from three or four years back may also drop in for a chat or advice . |
| 6 | Somatostatin infusion ( Somatostatine UCB 250 µg/h ) was given to reduced pancreatic secretion and elective surgical intervention was decided on for the seventh day . |
| 7 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 8 | And the fact that quite a lot of people had n't turned up on a certain day or that sort of thing . |
| 9 | All of which had had to be bottled up during a frustrating day . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now , although St Petersburg is full of some of the greatest treasures of the world , full of riches that have been handed down from the imperial days , there is very little about the tsar and his family at the time of the revolution . |
| 12 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 13 | The Taunton 150 special anniversary ale almost sold out in the first day and most other stallholders enjoyed a brisk trade too ! |
| 14 | This man and my father had joined up on the same day , they went to the same school , played football together , both courted my mother and both fell in love with her — and she ended up marrying them both . |
| 15 | This is filtered off after a few days , and the company is left with sheets of a solid , somewhat resembling uncooked pastry , which is then flavoured and textured . |
| 16 | The strike was called off on the following day . |
| 17 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 18 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 19 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 20 | Tentatively , 23 August 1990 was marked down as the official day of opening , when Ceauşescu would address a quarter of a million loyal subjects from the balcony on the second floor . |
| 21 | The new Cabinet , sworn in on the same day , contained no members from Fujimori 's politically inexperienced Change 90 ( Cambio 90 ) movement . |
| 22 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 23 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 24 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 25 | Brought up in the Seventh Day Adventist Church he would later be expelled and join the Branch Davidians . |
| 26 | If they did , the rate of reproduction of bacteria is such that 10 million copies of the New Testament could be run off in a single day , a missionary 's dream if only people could read the DNA alphabet but , alas , the characters are so small that all 10 million copies of the New Testament could simultaneously dance upon the surface of a pin 's head . |
| 27 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |
| 28 | He stared steadily outwards towards the ducks and flamingos while Kraal mantled his plumage , let out a harsh call or two and dropped down into the shelter to pick at the remnant of meat he had left over from the previous day . |
| 29 | In the medieval period many towns were administrative centres , especially the larger ones of the later Middle Ages , and this role has continued through to the present day with the county towns and district centres . |
| 30 | The horseshoe ridge that Ben Lawers dominates can be knocked off in a single day if you have legs of iron , but for a more leisurely exploration of the hills , Glen Lyon is where to pick off Meall a' Choire Leith , Meall Garbh , and the more distant Meall Greigh that turns the horseshoe into an S-shape . |