Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the 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 | DAD is wimpy toss , as these films go , so watch THE DAY OF THE LOCUST and THE BIG KNIFE on MOVIEDROME . |
| 9 | Not good enough to fret the days away ; let her use them , enjoy , let there be something rich about her to love and desire . |
| 10 | Khrushchev may have been perspicacious enough to imagine the day when his turn would come and he would become Special Pensioner Khrushchev . |
| 11 | Patiently waiting the day . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I much doing the day might'n you . |
| 14 | Having no need to labour , only to possess the days , |
| 15 | She eagerly awaited the days when Sarah arrived from London bringing with her a crowd of her sophisticated friends . |
| 16 | The majority of the works in the show are so new that some were only delivered the day before the exhibition started . |
| 17 | So jogs the day ; & I am happy . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | Permitting new supplies , as is suggested in paragraph 55 of draft MPG6 , only postpones the day when such a prospect has to be faced . |
| 20 | Permitting new supplies , as is suggested in paragraph 55 of draft MPG6 , only postpones the day when such a prospect has to be faced . |
| 21 | Long tables break down as needed , and contour-designed seating pampers delegates lucky enough to spend the day in the boardroom rather than the seminar room . |
| 22 | As dawn breaks and your testosterone level lifts naturally to begin the day , the memories of the banquet if provided last night may be so powerful that you can hardly wait to begin again . |
| 23 | It might only postpone the day , but even one day is breathing space , and I fancy he 's sharp enough to make up a plausible story , once he knows the odds , or to persuade this witness to a different tale . |
| 24 | In order not to miss the fair , he would work the night shift and so have the day tree . |
| 25 | Nurtured by his part in the suppression of the October revolution in Asturias , in 1934 , it took root definitively when his troops crossed the Straits of Gibraltar from Africa in August 1936 , thereby saving the day for the anti-Republican insurgents . |
| 26 | Just to round the day off , the Mayor of Los Angeles , Norris Poulson , told Khrushchev at the banquet in his honour that he was well-known to Americans as the man who had promised to bury them . |
| 27 | As this book goes to print , it seems that consumer pressure has finally won the day and forced a re-evaluation of corporate policy by the major US tuna canners . |
| 28 | Fournet-Fayard told French television : ‘ Good sense has finally won the day … the pressure exerted by the international bodies was really becoming unsupportable . ’ |
| 29 | Equally , he could invite politically sympathetic authorities to volunteer plans for comprehensive reorganisation , thus numbering the days of the 11 surviving grammar schools in Labour-run areas . |
| 30 | " I read in Goldsmith 's History of Greece , which is a very interesting book , then my attention is directed to Arithmetic which generally finishes the day 's employment . |