Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] day " in BNC.

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1 Will then organise conference at which present problems can be cleared and principles laid down The next day , 22 May , AFHQ replied to Eighth Army [ KP 22 ] ] : " Policy discussions on questions indicated your U 128 now being considered this HQ .
2 ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess .
3 The two Senussi soldiers were sent off on a recce and reported back the following day that there was no checkpoint on the road leading into the town .
4 ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’
5 Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview .
6 We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity .
7 Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again .
8 Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again .
9 It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit .
10 Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down .
11 In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day .
12 Once any treatment has been completed , partial water changes should be carried out every three days on three consecutive occasions , before returning to fortnightly changes of about 20% , with water that must be as near as possible to that already in the aquarium , ( but hopefully that goes without saying these days ) .
13 So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at
14 And then Jayne filled in the first day .
15 In the main trophy final Sevenoaks defeated St Olave 's School in a game worthy of rounding off an excellent day 's rugby .
16 Rosa too woke up the next day unsure whether she had walked in the street below in a dream , but the mud between her toes showed her that she had indeed left the house .
17 When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched .
18 Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months .
19 Both eased their way to victory over Yorkshire and Surrey to set up a final day showdown .
20 Mrs Peysner hopes that the money will be used instead to improve day facilities for this group at other homes or to set up a mobile day unit .
21 Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously .
22 and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in .
23 … no living writer , try though he may , can bring the past back again , because no living writer can bring back the ordinary day .
24 None of these measures will , of course , bring back the halcyon days of German science , or the immense amount of scientific talent lost to Germany — and usually to Europe — in the days of the Third Reich .
25 yeah , but it came back the other day did n't it ?
26 However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it .
27 When she came back the next day the stripes had been dyed her natural brunette , but badly , so that her hair still seemed striped , hence her nickname , Bunte .
28 ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’
29 So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up .
30 He came back the next day and gave me another £1.2 million and told me I could spend it in any way I wanted .
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