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

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1 But when he realized by late afternoon that none of the farmers at Casterbridge wanted a farm manager , or even a shepherd , he decided to try his luck at another fair the next day .
2 In her own words : ‘ I left home on the 9.30 a.m. train to attend a Medau class in London , travelled across to Balham in time for music , followed by the evening of training , then still in track suit back to Paddington for the 10.30 p.m. train , arriving home at 1 or 2 a.m. the next day .
3 At the TCCB winter meeting at Lord 's yesterday , the chairmen and chief executives of the 17 first-class counties opted for Chamberlain rather than the only other candidate , Don Perry , the Gloucestershire chairman , and although no one was giving very much away at Lord 's yesterday Chamberlain 's majority , like that elsewhere the previous day , was believed to be substantial .
4 At the TCCB winter meeting at Lord 's yesterday , the chairmen and chief executives of the 17 first-class counties opted for Chamberlain rather than the only other candidate , Don Perry , the Gloucestershire chairman , and although no one was giving very much away at Lord 's yesterday Chamberlain 's majority , like that elsewhere the previous day , was believed to be substantial .
5 The emerging feelings bubbled to the surface in the unlikely setting of the Route 66 pub in Darlington on Friday , February 7 just a few days after they met .
6 We were in Muscat by 10 am the next day , glad to have caught up with the group which was preparing to leave .
7 It adds that a tender and documents given by LCH to a buying member are deemed to comply with the contract terms unless the buyer notifies LCH to the contrary by 10 am the next day , in default of which he must pay for them .
8 There was three there the other day .
9 At 11 a.m. the following day his mother was told of his detention .
10 AT 11 AM the next day he was feeling groggy but was allowed home with a supply of pain-killers .
11 My mother nearly died when she saw the mess but little did she know that I was going to do it all again the next day .
12 We only found that out the other day !
13 On the Tuesday his American boss had a practice round in the morning , practised for a couple of hours , pronounced himself satisfied and arranged to meet Froggy at ten o'clock the next day .
14 An inspector and two crews were stranded at Fleetwood and did not get home until 5.00 p.m. the next day .
15 It was after ten when the long day ended , the king having busied himself visiting the wounded , including those from the enemy army ; he had , it soon appeared , decisively won the Battle of the Boyne for the loss of 500 men ; James 's casualties were put at 1600 .
16 Speaking of which , when one such status symbol ran dry here the other day , a child was lowered into a pit to clean out the drains , so the nineteenth-century tradition of infant chimney-sweeps is alive and well and living in Tuscany .
17 Thus it came about that sealed bids were invited , to be opened by the treasurer at 1 pm. the first day of the Sale .
18 The formal sitting began at one o'clock the following day .
19 The goods comprised 50 cartons of fragile machine parts to be collected from Tilbury , warehoused overnight at GFT 's premises and delivered by 8 am the next day to catch the relevant sailing from the port of Kings Lynn .
20 We were on the coach until about one pm the next day .
21 Mrs Thatcher finally announced her decision to resign at a Cabinet meeting summoned at the unusually early hour of 9 am the next day , declaring that she had concluded that the unity of the party and the prospects of victory in a general election would be better served if she stood down to enable Cabinet colleagues to enter the ballot for the leadership .
22 The Park had closed at 4.30 p.m. the previous day , the detectives learned , yet it was not unknown for nimble adolescents and desperate adults to gain access to the Parks from half-a-dozen possible places .
23 It is apparent from these sequences that the persistence of a particular state ( F or C ) is considerable ; if one day is foggy then the next day is more likely to be foggy than clear , and vice-versa .
24 He wanted to tell her he had never stopped loving her , that never a single day had passed without him thinking of her , wanting her in his arms or by his side , sharing the success which life had bestowed on him .
25 1.50 Once the 21 days for acceptance have passed or the trial has started the plaintiff can take the money in court only with the defendant 's consent or by order unless the payment in itself was made or increased after the trial started , when he has two days to accept , but must do so before the judge begins to deliver his judgment ( RSC Ord 22 , r5 ; CCR Ord 11 , r3 ) .
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