Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 2 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 3 | I can have them fried the next day . |
| 4 | but Jack is so temperamental these days , I mean the other day he went by he said oh |
| 5 | No erm well I , I mean the first day er in the , the mor |
| 6 | No , but I mean the whole day , I |
| 7 | You were looking a bit sorry for yourself when we came back cos he buys flowers and he gives , so he 'll buy them the day before , I got the next day , there their making in all that |
| 8 | That 's what I found the other day anyway . |
| 9 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 10 | Then when I proposed the next day , and made you tell me exactly how far you 'd gone with other men — ’ |
| 11 | I HAD EVEN WRITTEN : ONE , THE TRAVELLING COMPANION , WHICH WAS RETURNED BY AN EDITOR ON THE PLEA THAT IT WAS A WORK : OF GENIUS AND INDECENT , AND WHICH I BURNED THE OTHER DAY ON THE GROUND THAT IT WAS NOT A WORK OF GENIUS , AND THAT JEKYLL HAD SUPPLANTED IT . |
| 12 | She put some spring water on my wart one evening and it was gone when I woke the next day . ’ |
| 13 | I refrained from making any statement until I had the erm minutes which I received the er , agenda which I received the next day which contradict the abandonment , but if the idea was to sort of give this troublesome member from Bungay a heart attack , er it failed , cos I 'm still here and ticking , now I would like to go through once again the , the point regarding Bungay and I hope the committee will take it on board with . |
| 14 | When I arrived the next day , Holmes was not there , so I waited in his room . |
| 15 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 16 | I telephoned the next day , and the producer , having chatted with me awhile and ascertained that I was not a nutter ( I think ) , asked me to make a programme . |
| 17 | At the halfway stage , however , I relax , I 'm a little more at ease , and I know the remaining days will pass more quickly . |
| 18 | I announced such a review at a conference that I addressed the other day . |
| 19 | So it was your petition I signed the other day , was it ? |
| 20 | Seventeen days have passed since I finished the ten day course of chlorambucil . |
| 21 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 22 | I remember the first day I met him . |
| 23 | I REMEMBER the innocent days back when Club Dog used to be run out of a scout hut in Wood Green . |
| 24 | I remember the old days when layouts were readable , ZZAP ! cost under two quid and a packet of polos were still ten pence . |
| 25 | I remember the hottest day . |
| 26 | Before we left , they suggested I returned the next day to undergo a ‘ lymphangiogram ’ and explained the procedure . |
| 27 | Or so I heard the other day over lunch from Patricia Routledge , best known as television 's appalling social climber , Hyacinth Bucket . |
| 28 | Erm I w I was going to say , going back to China , erm they 're a bit frightened of China now in , in what was the Soviet Union I heard the other day , were th were they a little bit anti China 's type of communism before er the Soviet Union fell or were they all , all pals together ? |
| 29 | Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’ |
| 30 | I heard the other day . |