Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] one day " in BNC.
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1 | No talk of the tittle tattle of erm the citizens charter that gets watered down one day and becomes something else the other day and you might get a free train ticket out of it some time . |
2 | John had turned up one day in the shop . |
3 | Under strain for a start because it was technically ill-equipped to avert disaster or to cope with the consequences when disaster struck ; under strain from commercial pressures which , as the inquiry puts it , ‘ compromised ’ safety ; under strain above all because the people on the spot could n't or would n't cope , were weary from gruesome working hours ( the senior signal technician who heads the list of the culpable had had only one day off in the past 13 weeks ) , lacked adequate training , or simply could n't be bothered . |
4 | Rumours that the marriage was in trouble were gaining substance , particularly when by the end of the summer the press had calculated that Charles and Diana had spent only one day in six weeks together . |
5 | Or was it because he was the way he was that she had walked out one day when Dadda was at work and he at school , leaving a note on the kitchen table and the remains of the week 's housekeeping money ? |
6 | Her ex-husband had walked out one day for unspecified reasons , never to be seen again . |
7 | They would be taken away one day , like the seven hundred cans of dogfood , or the fifty television sets , and never seen again . |
8 | And Rory , throughout his teens , had thought about the struggle sometimes , and determined vaguely one day to be part of the broom that swept the Brits out of his country , and drank and screwed and spent and had terrific crack , and bought the three-eight Webley once , upon a whim . |