Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 2 | The grown-ups found a café , ordered raki , and found out the day of the week from the waiter . |
| 3 | The Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 came down the day after the fourth anniversary of the Lockerbie bomb — allegedly planted by two Libyans — which killed 270 . |
| 4 | Strangely enough , his announcement came just the day before Sir Richard Body 's press conference on his Pig Husbandry Bill , due for its second reading on 25 January . |
| 5 | Ella came here the day after I got in and cried her eyes out . |
| 6 | It all happened just the day before the announcement , and there were all those supporting press releases to write , print and stuff into public relations kits . |
| 7 | It all happened just the day before and there were all those supporting press releases to write , print and stuff into public relations kits . |
| 8 | Also meals are an event , and measured out the days : the end of the morning , the end of the afternoon . |
| 9 | The angry group of minority shareholders will even risk Barnet folding in an effort to unseat Flashman , whose undignified brawling blackened further the day his club were fined £50,000 for irregular payments . |
| 10 | Yeah we did it last year cos I broke up the day before last year all of mine still at school that day . |
| 11 | The Second World War broke out the day before the majority of deaf schools were due to reassemble after the summer holidays . |
| 12 | Goldberg called again the day after that , charged by her to find out . |
| 13 | Anyway erm tt I went down the day before I went into hospital actually for my op , and er |
| 14 | if you went home the day before Philip goes to get everything ready for him so you have n't |
| 15 | It fell out the day after . |
| 16 | If he went back the day would be done . |
| 17 | Steve gave up the day job last August and , with my razor sharp powers of journalistic observation , I think the day had some importance for him . |
| 18 | MPs may be worked up over tonight 's vote , but Merseyside 's comedians in gyms , golf courses and top hotels whiled away the day laughing at a brave new Europe full of German humour , Italian efficiency and French bathing habits . |
| 19 | Colonel Windsor took a sheet of paper from his desk and wrote out the day 's Orders : Friday , 12 November 1920 To all section commanders Special General Order Section commanders are warned that the severest disciplinary measures will be taken against any sign of looting or retaliation . |
| 20 | It ended abruptly the day before the distress call . |