Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ceauşescu fondly imagined the day when the Nobel Peace Prize would be added to his trophy cabinet . |
| 2 | She eagerly awaited the days when Sarah arrived from London bringing with her a crowd of her sophisticated friends . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | You not got a day off ? |
| 5 | I just needed a day 's recovery . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I just took the day off . |
| 7 | I did n't answer the letter , but just counted the days and the hours until he would be home for the holidays ; they seemed interminable . |
| 8 | Then Prentice took the seat next to me in the corridor and I just knew the day would n't get any better whatever the weather forecast . |
| 9 | Despite an outcry from local Labour Parties , the leadership easily won the day at the Labour Party conference at Southport in June . |
| 10 | But the ‘ mozzies ’ finally won the day and we retreated back to the safety of the ‘ bus ’ to lick our wounds and to hunt out our supplies of insect repellent ! |
| 11 | The preference for ideology over aesthetics , however , was a marked characteristic of the contributions of Zhdanov and Radek at the 1934 Congress , and it is clear , if only from the wording of the resolutions adopted , that this approach generally carried the day . |
| 12 | Thompson in turn deliberately recalled the days of an integrated and successful movement by praising Sturge 's work a generation earlier with Wilberforce and Clarkson . |
| 13 | Gradually she wheedled her way into the kitchen and began to learn the art of French cooking from Alain 's mother , and what with one thing and another she hardly noticed the days pass by . |
| 14 | A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) centres , like Went the Day Well ? , around a sinister village squire . |
| 15 | He deliberately chose the day to coincide with the Paddington election . |
| 16 | He lived with his five brothers , sister and parents in an old building near the Cliff Hotel in Jaffa and he still remembered the day in 1935 on which Jean Damiani bought the first family car , a magnificent light green Buick saloon costing 350 Palestinian pounds , equivalent then to the same amount in sterling . |
| 17 | old one still had a day 's life left in it . |
| 18 | None of them won but they still considered the day a victory . |
| 19 | The flock also sold the day 's second highest entry taking 5000gns for a son of the 12,000gns Fordafourie Ferrari to Dublin District Milk Board , Co Meath , Eire . |
| 20 | He later recalled the days spent in the ‘ painting room ’ immersed in his father 's collection of books and pictures as the happiest of his life . |
| 21 | ‘ We thoroughly enjoyed the day , ’ added Don . |
| 22 | Margaret and her husband thoroughly enjoyed the day and would recommend it to anyone ! |
| 23 | Everyone who took part in this charitable challenge thoroughly enjoyed the day , and we all felt we had contributed something worthwhile to the local community . |
| 24 | A long time back forgot the days when each |
| 25 | I really enjoyed the day , and I was a little put out by the articles I read in a couple of daily newspapers throughout the week , which criticised the tournament for staging what they called ‘ just a one-woman show ’ . |
| 26 | Mr Gair said : ‘ Alex really saved the day . |
| 27 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 28 | In 1945 the superficial judgement invariably carried the day . |
| 29 | Minton frequently ended the day at Apollo Place with a strange collection of individuals for his sympathy with outsiders led him to pick up strays or the obviously lonely . |
| 30 | The battle raged throughout the moon-bright night and although the Scots were heavily outnumbered , they eventually won the day ; however , during the fight , Douglas was brought to the ground by three spear wounds . |