Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] the [num ord] day " in BNC.

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1 Yet it was all in a losing cause because England still finished the fourth day of the second Test 43 runs in arrears at 231 for eight in their second innings .
2 Low-spirited , disappointed that she must forgo the festivities which always marked the twelfth day of Christmas , she wept copiously and bewailed her ill-fortune to such an extent that it was feared she would increase the severity of the illness .
3 Lancia still ended the first day in the lead , but Alessandro Fiorio 's Integrale was one of the old-style standard versions that have dominated the world championship for the past two years .
4 We eventually finished the first day 's walking .
5 But their most famous victory , over the black Conservative John Taylor in Cheltenham , was clouded by suggestions of racism , and as our Political Editor Peter Hayes reports it was racism that also overshadowed the first day of the conference .
6 If not , the nets can be collected quickly and without too much care , to be cleared of any debris , maybe dried and even repaired the next day .
7 Gallacher ignored the threats , played a blinder , then woke the next day with the intention of visiting friends in Belfast .
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