Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shipman 's two-volume Story of the Cinema ( Hodder and Stoughton ) is also a very good read — the first volume goes up to Gone With The Wind and the second starts with Citizen Kane and reaches more or less the present day . |
| 2 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I wear a hearing aid and only the other day I could n't understand what my helper was saying . |
| 4 | Mr Frizzell , before the unfortunate episode with Betty , had been prevailed upon to donate four old , though still serviceable , tyres ; and finally the great day arrived when he backed it slowly out of the garage and drove it round to his own home in the vague hope that his mother might like to see it . |
| 5 | We would arrange to be something at a particular time in the evening and then the following day we would compare our thoughts . |
| 6 | And then the following day , as the Freeport-McMoran Classic ended in New Orleans : ‘ Send for Bob ? |
| 7 | And then the other day you were saying that it 's nice to have someone drop in |
| 8 | And then the great day itself — June Two Two , as they called it — it was as if the excitement could no longer be contained . |
| 9 | The coffee pot , jug and pepper pot were among items stolen in a burglary of a house in Aiskew , Bedale , between 1.30pm on March 8 and 1.30am the following day . |
| 10 | ‘ It had quite an effect because only the other day a London record store asked if it was going to be released again . ’ |
| 11 | The adrenalin which had been pumping into her bloodstream since early the previous day had burned up all her reserves of energy . |
| 12 | Hubert Molland had said as much the other day . |