Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually he didn he did n't kick too badly the other day . |
| 2 | ‘ We could have given you an introduction to Professor Vanchetti in Rome , ’ said Gervase Fairfax , who was Penelope 's other neighbour , ‘ but unfortunately he dropped down dead the other day . ’ |
| 3 | All you ever hear is how great football teams like Newcastle/Chelsea/West Ham/Liverpool/Scum have always played ( even Wolves got a mention somewhere the other day ) , & how they always stick to thier principles . |
| 4 | Well Cynthia went somewhere the other day and there were so many pe people in black it was like a doomsday |
| 5 | His and my granny 's stories and memories centred round the struggles they had come through , especially the terrible days following the collapse of the General Strike in 1926 when the miners stayed out for many months . |
| 6 | ‘ I hear the constable was down the other day , if you do n't mind me saying so , ’ Mrs Clamp said , and coughed politely . |
| 7 | they were lying down the other day |
| 8 | ‘ People are playing with fire if they contemplate the Government will just be defeated on Wednesday and everything settles down the following day . |
| 9 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 10 | So the other day last week I was bleeding |
| 11 | So the other day , you know what I done ? |
| 12 | So the whole day is done by the time you get started , so you can close out the foreign and even the U S domestic edition , domestic news , before you |
| 13 | So the precious day came and went , and the only person she visited was Maggie , who did n't have a lot of sympathy . |
| 14 | Hubert Molland had said as much the other day . |
| 15 | If he had n't rattled her so much the other day , leaving her high and dry to sneak off and join his girlfriend , she might have remembered to tell him about the dratted ledgers . |
| 16 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 17 | The formal sitting began at one o'clock the following day . |
| 18 | Cheshire County Council brought in the new day centre charges on April 1 to a furious reception by carers . |
| 19 | Shipman 's two-volume Story of the Cinema ( Hodder and Stoughton ) is also a very good read — the first volume goes up to Gone With The Wind and the second starts with Citizen Kane and reaches more or less the present day . |
| 20 | It was considered one of the advanced mills , advanced in that their employees worked only the ten-hour day and finished work at one o'clock on a Saturday . |
| 21 | Only the actual day of his departure is , to the people , unknown . |
| 22 | Morning winds may be light , but afternoons are usually brisk , with exciting open sea sailing in force 3 to 5 for many days each holiday — let down by only the odd day of paddling ! |
| 23 | Only the other day a leader of the student movement in Prague said that the first letter of support they had received from abroad after baptising the revolution in their blood on November 17 was from him , with the signatures of four other Soviet Academicians . |
| 24 | Only the other day Robson was criticising Paul Gascoigne for attempting a similar back-heeled flick during England 's B match against Yugoslavia … could be costly , might give the other side a goal , must cut out that sort of thing , and so on . |
| 25 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
| 26 | Only the other day … |
| 27 | Only the other day what ? … |
| 28 | ‘ It had quite an effect because only the other day a London record store asked if it was going to be released again . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I wear a hearing aid and only the other day I could n't understand what my helper was saying . |
| 30 | He had passed by the very spot only the other day , and it had brought tears to his eyes . |