Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] day " in BNC.

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1 But Sotheby 's eventually won the day , causing an annoyed Christie 's to tip off The New York Times before Sotheby 's could proudly announce their coup .
2 While no single Member State could unilaterally opt out of farm subsidies , a Government pressing the case for agricultural aid to be aimed solely at those who need it would be in a strong position to eventually win the day in a Community facing constant budget cuts .
3 These arguments have obviously won the day so far , but the climate of opinion is changing .
4 Some of us are even old enough to remember the days when Maths was fun , not the ponderous THEOREM .
5 Many of us are old enough to remember the days when to contract tuberculosis — which many British people did — was to be given a virtual death sentence .
6 Ianthe sighed , perhaps foreseeing the day when both of them would be replaced by younger persons .
7 Ceauşescu fondly imagined the day when the Nobel Peace Prize would be added to his trophy cabinet .
8 ‘ Do you take Azor for a long walk every day , Mr Gajdusek ? ’ she asked for innocent openers .
9 DAD is wimpy toss , as these films go , so watch THE DAY OF THE LOCUST and THE BIG KNIFE on MOVIEDROME .
10 So like , you 've only got a day and a half have n't you ?
11 Not good enough to fret the days away ; let her use them , enjoy , let there be something rich about her to love and desire .
12 I 'm a Sunderland supporter who lives down here , I 've only had a day 's notice .
13 Khrushchev may have been perspicacious enough to imagine the day when his turn would come and he would become Special Pensioner Khrushchev .
14 Patiently waiting the day .
15 it usually , it only takes a day once they 've received it , if that 's alright ?
16 Now , with hardly more than a month of 1920 remaining , they were being honoured with the presence of the JNF 's top secretary , who would make the final arrangements , tie up the loose ends , perhaps name the day .
17 I much doing the day might'n you .
18 I mean , we , we used to have , like , we 'd have meat come twice a week , they 're the butchers , and then we 'd have coming , maybe , erm , once a week , and then like the dry goods , er , erm , we 'd have another day , where erm , you know , you have different things , basically coming every day .
19 Having no need to labour , only to possess the days ,
20 Captain Tony Wright came in to save the day .
21 I went in to watch the day 's most elegant event … the private driving competition .
22 She eagerly awaited the days when Sarah arrived from London bringing with her a crowd of her sophisticated friends .
23 However , once up there the temptation to carry on is too strong , so choose a day early in the summer if you have no will-power to stave off the seduction of the tops .
24 The majority of the works in the show are so new that some were only delivered the day before the exhibition started .
25 With a regretful look at Edith still slumbering at his side in the huge mahogany bed , he swung his feet down to face the day .
26 So jogs the day ; & I am happy .
27 ‘ They only live a day , ’ said a loony from the next table .
28 And , but of course young Johnny comes along to spend the day with his grandparents and he likes to ape granddad .
29 Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday !
30 Permitting new supplies , as is suggested in paragraph 55 of draft MPG6 , only postpones the day when such a prospect has to be faced .
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