Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] the day " in BNC.
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| 1 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 2 | It named the woman because NBC News had done so the day before . |
| 3 | Much of the material confirmed what Tolonen had said only the day before . |
| 4 | He had told them he had things to do at home , had saved up the day for solitude . |
| 5 | THE tarpaulin sheet that was a homeless teenager 's only shelter was stolen yesterday the day his plight was reported in The Northern Echo . |
| 6 | He lifted his collar philosophically , leaned against the hardier Theatre bills that he had stuck there the day before , and lit his pipe . |
| 7 | In Zambia aircraft accident investigation was the responsibility of the Director of Civil Aviation and the official who occupied that position had been appointed only the day before the accident occurred . |
| 8 | Having eaten well the day before he was not hungry and anyway did not trust the Men . |
| 9 | The proposal would not prevent unofficial action taken on the day without any notice . |
| 10 | He 's in a photo of Mrs Nowak 's taken on the day her husband went back to Poland . |
| 11 | Also one of the new pope 's first actions , taken on the day after his consecration , was to extract an oath of obedience from the prefect of Rome . |
| 12 | A throat culture taken on the day of microbiological diagnosis was negative . |
| 13 | She was apt to confuse the past with the present , talking of events that had happened forty or fifty years ago as though they had happened only the day before . |
| 14 | It is better than tripods for a really wet crop since the crop may be put up the day it is cut even in rainy weather . |
| 15 | Paula , from Bradford , died in hospital from a brain tumour after being taken ill the day after her 10th birthday . |
| 16 | Heavy thunderstorms had poured down the day before , but today the sun shone brightly and the air was warm and clear . |
| 17 | The funeral had in fact been held only the day before . |