Example sentences of "[pers pn] was the [num ord] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing he was thankful for was that it was the eleventh day , the rest day . |
| 2 | It was the first day of the new university year . |
| 3 | It was the first day of the show season , but most of the horses did not understand . |
| 4 | At last — at last , Paul told himself , it was the first day of May ! |
| 5 | The story so far … it was the first day of the year and the people had started to gather in the palace yard . |
| 6 | It was the first day 's work in weeks for many of the dockers and all day a steady stream of men passed through the doorway of the little cafe . |
| 7 | We chose that day because it was the first day |
| 8 | I start counting from Wednesday which I know because it was the first day of term . |
| 9 | I remember that day very well because it was the first day that Mr. Andrew did n't come . " |
| 10 | It was the first day of spring when she began . |
| 11 | It was the first day the wharf walk had been reopened to the public and the first night without a PC on guard at the scene of the crime . |
| 12 | But added to that , I can well remember staying at Kettleborough Chequers erm and er walking along from Kettleborough to Brandeston erm th the very next morning after I 'd come here and I think it was before I think it was quite likely before we had we had actually met , I do n't know whether it was the first day or the second |
| 13 | It was the second day of athletics events of the Games of the XXIVth Olympiad . |
| 14 | It was the third day that clinched it . |
| 15 | It was the third day after she had dressed , gone out , without wearing her underclothes , into her car , driving on the main road through Tadley , driving all the way to Kingsclere , knocking at the front door of the home of a woman who was almost a stranger , going into a house that she hardly knew . |
| 16 | It was the third day she had heard it . |
| 17 | It was the third day of the German assault . |
| 18 | It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board . |
| 19 | What we do is take the , the day of the week and the , the calendar date , it might be the say it was the fourth day of the week Thursday |
| 20 | It was the last day of local working between Nottingham and Sheffield and therefore the Chesterfield Loop . |
| 21 | Ruth surveyed the freshly-turned earth and looked around for a flower she could place on the grave , but it was the last day of December and there was nothing in bloom . |
| 22 | It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’ |
| 23 | It was the last day of March , and overnight the belated wind had arrived to clear every vestige of fog from the brick and stone of London . |
| 24 | It was the last day of term at the University of Montreal . |
| 25 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 26 | ‘ It was the last day of school and I had intended to phone you later although I had n't decided what to say . ’ |
| 27 | It was the last day of the fifth test between England and Australia . |
| 28 | It was the last day last Friday . |
| 29 | It was the next day that Lewis turned up at the door of the workshop his tools in a bag and his leather apron over his arm . |
| 30 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |