Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I 'll write them down some day , if I get the chance . |
| 2 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 3 | Why do n't you bring me down some day and somebody steal it |
| 4 | And I hope you have n't gone to any trouble cooking for me because I can barely keep owt down these days , not after t'hospital , me appetite quite sickened away on me wi' the things they serve up — greasy bits o' beef skirt and nasty little salads wi' half a two-week old egg and a few outside leaves o' lettuce and a bit o' wet beetroot , no , it was an effort getting it down , let alone keeping it down — I can tell you , there was many as could n't , eggs from t'infernal regions we got for us breakfast as often as not , right stink bombs , but could you get any o' them nurses to have a sniff or give us another i'stead ? |
| 5 | ‘ Well ! ’ he said , ‘ I hope you 'll forgive me for having knocked you down that day . ’ |
| 6 | When I awoke and started getting ready for my classes , which now passed mechanically , as if in a vacuum , the students suspended in time and space , and my own voice seeming to come from somewhere a long , long way away , I would write a poem for you as a kind of incantation to bring you back that day : |
| 7 | I 'll pay you back one day . ’ |
| 8 | Do you know if they still dredge them up these days or |
| 9 | ‘ Even my mum called me up one day and congratulated me ! |
| 10 | In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo . |
| 11 | Yeah cos she used to get me t , and then she rang me up one day when I was and said dad erm dad ca n't bring me round there cos the car 's not working , can you come and pick me up ? |
| 12 | So I made a collage that said something about that day and their plight , and named it after one of the banners they were carrying . ’ |
| 13 | So I made a collage that said something about that day and their plight , and named it after one of the banners they were carrying . ’ |
| 14 | please look after them and bring them back each day , you 'll find a bandage and a roll of bandage in there and so their your own properties |
| 15 | Meanwhile the weather had not improved at all , setting me back several days . |
| 16 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
| 17 | If left , these tend to go mouldy , so tip them out each day . |
| 18 | The weekend before that they only allowed me out one day overnight |
| 19 | Well , that did n't mean a thing to me , so she took me out next day to the Champs Elysée , into a very expensive shop . |
| 20 | One member followed me around all day abusing me verbally with what can only be called dirty talk . |
| 21 | The chief of the Near East Division had sat him down one day to try to teach him about Iran , but he doubted it had gone in . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've been winding her up all day , ’ shouted Luke . |
| 23 | Well anyway Friday night he slept all night Saturday night he had her up all day ! |
| 24 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
| 25 | I shall catch him out one day . |
| 26 | So Trish takes him out one day lost the ball ! |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been too busy to take him out all day , and I do like him to have a little outing . ’ |
| 28 | Well we could get her back another day could n't we ? |
| 29 | Took her out other day and she played all day . |
| 30 | He had taken her out one day , her and Mama , and when he had handed her out of the big Daimler , her papa 's pride , he had slipped a note into her hand , inviting her to meet him when his duties were over , and go out with him — perhaps for a ride on the Brooklyn Ferry . |