Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow , with gritted teeth , her soul in torment , she got through the day and the night that followed . |
| 2 | She fought through the days with relentless activity , aiming to get thoroughly tired , so that she could sleep . |
| 3 | A win or a loss could affect how well you lived for a day or two . |
| 4 | He had very red hair and a pale complexion with masses of freckles all over his face , he was very popular with everyone and lived for the day when he could join the Army , particularly the Camerons . |
| 5 | His Principal looked at him suspiciously when he asked for the day off , and he stuttered , ‘ She brought me up , you know . ’ |
| 6 | Boy as I said lived during the days on sugar , yoghurts , instant coffee and toast ; then every evening the man would cook up a big casserole , one big casserole filled with fish and lots of potatoes , tinned sweetcorn , something like that , and they would eat that together in the kitchen every night at seven o'clock , before the man went off to work — he worked nights you see . |
| 7 | The people we met during the day became our table companions in the evening . |
| 8 | At first , she felt bereft , because all her friends were working and the people she met during the day were a generation older . |
| 9 | There also , in the early morning prayer time , Jesus heard the word that would sustain the weary he met during the day . |
| 10 | ‘ She had her friends , but they met during the day . |
| 11 | Our visitor had little knowledge of the passions or indeed the psychology of small boys , for he casually admitted after a day or two that he had inscribed the Master 's name on the bat himself ! |
| 12 | Mandy , as always , bounced through every day full of cheer and optimism , watching all the goings-on as if she had happened on front-row seats at the most enjoyable of soap operas . |
| 13 | Grey is the colour of pavements — and of the walls of the centres for homeless people which I sometimes visited during the day . |
| 14 | It is true that the other problems also occurred during the day . |
| 15 | ‘ He is still angry at the two-week delay which occurred between the day he was tested and the way the results were announced in such a public manner . ’ |
| 16 | For librarians the title smacked of the days when running a library " was undertaken by a lecturer " in his spare time " ( compare the teacher-librarian in most British secondary schools ) and they resented the possible implications that running a library was not a full-time job . |
| 17 | Their activities ranged throughout the day and night and reached a peak of basically making a noise nuisance of themselves , there were other troubles which I will mention later , in which they would be playing two or three different sound systems , and at its worst , a full drum set in the early hours of the morning , obviously keeping their near neighbours not only awake but in a state of some anxiety . |
| 18 | Wessels launched an immediate counter-attack when he entered in the day 's second over , mostly with pulls and cuts , and counted eight fours and a top-edged pull for six off Ambrose who removed him for 59 to a sharp low catch at point 35 minutes after lunch . |
| 19 | I do not believe , for example , that it was a matter of chance that the Strangeways riot erupted on the day following the Trafalgar Square demonstration against the poll tax . |
| 20 | This was a sparrow that I found on the day it was born . |
| 21 | One old horseman put forward his opinion that the reason for the teams ' long stretch of work in the early part of the day was , in fact , to save taking off ( the harness etc. ) in the middle of the day ; and — what is more interesting — he referred to the day 's visit to the field as journey . |
| 22 | As it happened , the visit occurred on a day when southern Saskatchewan was experiencing one of the heaviest snow blizzards in years . |
| 23 | And he gives the game away by specifying that the ritual occurred on the day immediately preceding Jesus 's triumphal entry into Jerusalem . |
| 24 | The division occurred on the day of a vital meeting of the 140 members of the Janata Dal parliamentary party . |
| 25 | A further abnormal discharge , of 10 times the normal weekly level of radioactive iodine-29 , occurred on the day officials from the Inspectorate of Pollution and the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate arrived to investigate the earlier leak . |
| 26 | But as we prepared for the day in the early dawn , with the birds tuning up outside our African ‘ rondavel ’ hut , we both felt impelled to reach the tough core of the Right-wing settlers , Smith 's Rhodesia Front . |
| 27 | In March the threshing-machine came for a day to Flintcomb-Ash . |
| 28 | His skull poked into the day . |
| 29 | Trent F M playing New Order , Ruined in a day , on this Wednesday afternoon the fourteenth of July , eleven minutes past four o'clock . |
| 30 | There were men that " passed like ships in the night " — the good ones and men like " your father " who snored in the night and roared in the day who it was best to put a pillow between . |