Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] that day " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 2 | This statement , from two ladies as eccentric and charmingly Irish as anyone I 'd met that day , just about summed up my own feelings . |
| 3 | His words went straight to her heart , and she remembered the private wish she 'd made that day , that Nicolo would tell her he loved her . |
| 4 | Tommy 'd ask me how much money we 'd done that day . |
| 5 | Mrs Blakey kept on asking them what they 'd done that day . |
| 6 | And she 'd had an abortion the night before and she 'd died that day on the Monday . |
| 7 | And he 'd always ask how much I 'd eaten that day . ’ |
| 8 | But assumptions , as she 'd discovered that day , could be dangerous , and Isabelle had never actually stated where she was born . |
| 9 | His head whirled with the names and faces of all the people he had met that day . |
| 10 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 11 | Indeed , an extraction set may not be based on the denotation of any noun explicitly mentioned at all ; an equally valid extraction set for ( 19 ) might be the creatures we had shot that day . |
| 12 | Another officer concluded his own harrowing account of what he had seen that day : The whole affair and its conduct was the most brutal and disgusting I have ever witnessed . |
| 13 | To my eyes the new pair of partridges were indistinguishable from any of the other birds I had seen that day , but the rest of the audience clearly thought otherwise . |
| 14 | Everyone has a smile and we all wanted to tell what we had done that day or planned for the next . |
| 15 | All I had to think about for 5 months had been which was the best brand of nappies or how many poos Danielle had done that day . |
| 16 | The only activity Gerald had forbidden her was the embroidery of tapestry , which he had declared too menial an occupation for a young lady of her intelligence , preferring her to accompany him on his visits to neighbouring landlords as she had done that day . |
| 17 | She remembered what her father had said that day in the Stadium ; the German Democratic Republic was a good country , a great country , a miracle . |
| 18 | Exactly as I appear is exactly as I am , he had said that day in Carlingford . |
| 19 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |
| 20 | We did not stop , and when I got home to Banbury it was to hear that my mother had died that day in Cardiff . |
| 21 | Over a thousand men had died that day attacking a ten-mile front from Messines to Passchendaele , so it was n't surprising that the lieutenant 's letter was short and to the point . |
| 22 | By the number of leaf stalks revealed it was discovered how many lies a friend had told that day and a long stalk indicated a big lie . |
| 23 | I was tired of all the conversations I had had that day and wanted to glamorise my life . |
| 24 | An AFP report of June 28 said that MWU members protesting against the dismissal of Ould Rahdy as general secretary had clashed that day with police in Nouakchott . |
| 25 | It did not belong to the prisoners who had escaped that day . |
| 26 | More testimony was given by Sergeant Harris as to the clothing Drew had worn that day . |
| 27 | Before dusk Holly and those who had arrived that day were taken to the Bath house to stand for a few moments beneath the trickle of lukewarm water . |
| 28 | Dancing with Tom , Alice nearly told him what had happened that day . |
| 29 | He was thinking — and something had happened that day to make him do so — about the first time he had seen the female golden eagle in the Zoo . |
| 30 | Rory giggled weakly , then lay back against the pillows , suddenly overwhelmed by everything that had happened that day , not least by the totally uncharacteristic tenderness in his voice . |