Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though she never lived to see the day , six of her sons became priests and four of her daughters nuns . |
| 2 | 2 As an adjunct or object to the preceding verb which is usually transitive : She promised to write every day . |
| 3 | In his ice-cold and pitch black seclusion , John heard the sounds of his rescuers getting closer to him and tried to count the days by following the shift changes . |
| 4 | One of the facts of Caribbean life that suited Stephen was the early hour at which people rose to start the day . |
| 5 | And his head was spinning from walking so far ; he walked everywhere , and though he stopped to eat every day when he was on one of these journeys of his he did not I expect eat especially properly . |
| 6 | Their hard work , efficiency and friendliness helped to produce a day which will be remembered for a long time by all those who took part . |
| 7 | Lawson was a self-taught oil refinery engineer who cycled to work every day . |
| 8 | He came to work every day in the week at 6 a.m. and left off at about 9 p.m . |
| 9 | I was having to survive on my dole money — which seemed to disappear the day I got it . |
| 10 | Theo did break his journey and came to spend a day or so with him . |
| 11 | As soon as he was able , Lucien began to exercise every day before going down to the refectory for breakfast with Ketura and Sydel . |
| 12 | At about the same time , the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the City of London decided to hold a Day of Solemn Thanksgiving to God for General Monk 's success , and they requested Richard Baxter to preach in St. Paul 's . |
| 13 | We decided to end the day on this high . |
| 14 | Angel and Tess decided to spend a day together shopping on Christmas Eve . |
| 15 | I never thought to see the day , and all because I said I fiddled with wireless . |
| 16 | While chairman of the health authority he was instantly recognisable by the fresh , home-grown carnation he wore to work every day . |
| 17 | Two youths attacked and robbed two members of staff as they went to bank the day 's takings from a fruit shop in Raby Street , Byker , Tyneside . |
| 18 | Gilts dealers reported signs of indigestion in early trading , although demand picked up later in the session and , in the absence of any new demands from the government broker , longer dated issues managed to end the day about £⅛ better . |
| 19 | So off he went to spend a day with people or institutions that embodied the very best our country has to offer . |
| 20 | It is recorded , for example , that in spite of his duties as kadi and muderris , he yet managed to copy every day two leaves from the books of the ancients and Mecdi adds in regard to this point that Molla Husrev thus left a number of books in his own hand at his death . |
| 21 | We failed to get the day 1 samples from eight patients and the day 8 samples from one patient . |
| 22 | She liked to be outside , liked to watch the day waxing or waning , liked to be where she could see her household moving about . |
| 23 | She never had to work a day in her life . ’ |
| 24 | Both men , however , had to suffer a day of ups and downs — including two engine failures in the morning on their new ‘ high-tech ’ MP4/7A race cars — before they found the pace in the afternoon . |
| 25 | He only had to remember the day after Dobson 's resignation . |
| 26 | ‘ But Martica Heaner , the hips and thighs expert , said I had to exercise every day for at least 10–15 minutes , and combine that with a calorie-controlled diet , ’ she says . |
| 27 | Finding himself in a minority of one in 1965 over the Commission 's package of proposals , De Gaulle either had to cede the day to the Community and hence accept the principle of majority voting , or block the effective working of the Community . |
| 28 | For most of us they were n't , but everyone had felt that they had to mark the day , and what else could we do ? |
| 29 | I 'm , I think I had to do a days . |
| 30 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |