Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | That 's what I found the other day anyway . |
| 3 | Then when I proposed the next day , and made you tell me exactly how far you 'd gone with other men — ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She put some spring water on my wart one evening and it was gone when I woke the next day . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When I arrived the next day , Holmes was not there , so I waited in his room . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I announced such a review at a conference that I addressed the other day . |
| 10 | So it was your petition I signed the other day , was it ? |
| 11 | Seventeen days have passed since I finished the ten day course of chlorambucil . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Before we left , they suggested I returned the next day to undergo a ‘ lymphangiogram ’ and explained the procedure . |
| 14 | Or so I heard the other day over lunch from Patricia Routledge , best known as television 's appalling social climber , Hyacinth Bucket . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | I heard the other day . |
| 18 | I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind . |
| 19 | I heard the other day that you were thinking of selling your practice and moving away . ’ |
| 20 | Belinda if we can start with you more or less erm I heard the other day that you 're half thinking that you might like to be a nurse ? |
| 21 | Now if I could try and translate that into your particular sphere of interest , you are doing things with noise , with food , with roofs I heard the other day , yesterday , which surprised me , and a variety of other things , which people understand . |
| 22 | And when I confessed the other day in the King 's Head that we were off on a trip to Dartington , there were cynical smiles . |
| 23 | I mean I knew the first day I drove in the dark was the first night we had the car and it was most odd experience |
| 24 | From what I saw the other day , you already have a full biography of me down to the very last detail , even though you 'd missed one or two relevant facts . |
| 25 | I saw the other day . |
| 26 | Cos I looked the other day . |
| 27 | I remembered the first days in New York when I ran like a wild animal set free from a cage . |
| 28 | Something tightened in my chest as I remembered the two days since I saw Toby last . |
| 29 | If I keep , keep hitting it like I did the other day when my brother was there me thumb and that , oh boy ! |
| 30 | Well I did the other day did n't I ? |