Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] that day " in BNC.

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1 And he 'd always ask how much I 'd eaten that day . ’
2 He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was .
3 This statement , from two ladies as eccentric and charmingly Irish as anyone I 'd met that day , just about summed up my own feelings .
4 To my eyes the new pair of partridges were indistinguishable from any of the other birds I had seen that day , but the rest of the audience clearly thought otherwise .
5 Yet that he could talk , and well , I had discovered that day in the car .
6 The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope .
7 I was tired of all the conversations I had had that day and wanted to glamorise my life .
8 But assumptions , as she 'd discovered that day , could be dangerous , and Isabelle had never actually stated where she was born .
9 His words went straight to her heart , and she remembered the private wish she 'd made that day , that Nicolo would tell her he loved her .
10 And she 'd had an abortion the night before and she 'd died that day on the Monday .
11 Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be .
12 The only activity Gerald had forbidden her was the embroidery of tapestry , which he had declared too menial an occupation for a young lady of her intelligence , preferring her to accompany him on his visits to neighbouring landlords as she had done that day .
13 You wanted to go that day .
14 Tommy 'd ask me how much money we 'd done that day .
15 By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day .
16 Indeed , an extraction set may not be based on the denotation of any noun explicitly mentioned at all ; an equally valid extraction set for ( 19 ) might be the creatures we had shot that day .
17 Everyone has a smile and we all wanted to tell what we had done that day or planned for the next .
18 Mrs Blakey kept on asking them what they 'd done that day .
19 Slipping for years , pointed out tactfully by our friends and neighbours , pushed back into place with the bamboo boathook , they had chosen that day to fall .
20 Nor could they ever again find the paths they had taken that day .
21 His head whirled with the names and faces of all the people he had met that day .
22 Another officer concluded his own harrowing account of what he had seen that day : The whole affair and its conduct was the most brutal and disgusting I have ever witnessed .
23 Exactly as I appear is exactly as I am , he had said that day in Carlingford .
24 He had returned that day from an exhausting round of deals and meetings in New York .
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