Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was moving back on board Wavebreaker in preparation for the next day 's early departure . |
| 2 | On top of that there could be time spent tutoring individual pupils with special needs before they had time to think of preparation for the next day . |
| 3 | Valerie Schwartz had already , with her father Georges , a doctor from Geneva , climbed the Breithorn and Mont Blanc du Tacul as preparation for the big day . |
| 4 | These depressions were usually connected with his job ; she guessed he was still irritated by his wasted trip to Glasgow and consequent lack of a story for the next day 's paper . |
| 5 | Smith New Court , which already has a sizeable position in Ferranti shares , was a heavy buyer for the second day , as was Hoare Govett , which includes British Aerospace among its corporate clients . |
| 6 | Busy and happy — tiring certainly but a night 's rest producing renewed energy and enthusiasm for the coming day . |
| 7 | instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal . |
| 8 | However some employers must have moved more quickly , since the Scotsman for the same day carried the following report : The masters say they have engaged workmen from England who have proved equal to the occasion , while for the past few weeks an experiment was made with educated females at the case . |
| 9 | Every Sunday I also contributed a religious meditation to the New Times of Burma under the heading ‘ Thought for Today ’ , following on a Buddhist meditation for the preceding day . |
| 10 | Organisers of Wirral 's Initiative for Needy Children ( Winch ) are also lining up a celebrity spot-kick contest for the same day at Prenton Park . |
| 11 | After a good night 's sleep in the spacious suites , they should be in an excellent frame of mind for the next day 's play . |
| 12 | The bowlers then found no difficulty in maintaining the lack of momentum as the second day in Colombo ended with Phil Tufnell again struggling for form , taking nought for 50 from 13 overs , with six boundaries being plundered from his first five overs . |
| 13 | Wing , 20 , a clerk , of Toppesfield Road , Wickford , had denied the allegation during the two day trial , saying he acted in self-defence . |
| 14 | The entry for the following day , 13 May , began : " Organisation of VIKTRING cage our main responsibility , taking a whole Grenadier coy . |
| 15 | on conditions of carriage for the same day operation but , not in that league at all . |
| 16 | The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers . |
| 17 | It was mid-afternoon before confirmation of the following day 's run was received . |
| 18 | All the suspended pain , anger and confusion of the last day overcame Bernice . |
| 19 | So he said to himself : ‘ This is the place where I was simply terrified ! ’ and remembering his fear of the previous day , he promptly shied again although he had not been hurt the day before . |
| 20 | Then in June 1967 , Romania failed to break off diplomatic relations with Israel after the outbreak of the Six Day War . |
| 21 | In the event , Eugénie had a long and difficult labour — over 12 hours — as the Emperor told the Queen in a letter of 17 March , which followed his personal telegram of the previous day . |
| 22 | Now , in the faint light of the dawning day she had to accept that he had not done so . |
| 23 | It was miraculous that so tender and fragile a creature had emerged from the violence of the preceding day . |
| 24 | A wide variety of things could be construed as ‘ approaching ’ violence but to use that expression while condemning the violence of the previous day and to do so in a critique of Paisley while failing to mention the Cromac Square rioters is to exaggerate . |
| 25 | But at a later date , slowly and quietly , the beneficent powers of Nature will reassert themselves ; there is no dramatic reversal of fortune , no catastrophe — ‘ at the coming of the milder day the monuments will disappear , engulfed in new growth of beauty and of bloom ’ . |
| 26 | Cheerfully they got out of the car into the open day and went down the rocks to the strand and then out to the tideline . |
| 27 | And these hung still , though alertly braced , for more than a minute , while the torch he carried ranged round the interior of the passage , and leaked little sparks of muted light into the outer day . |
| 28 | We crawl out of the undergrowth into the bright day . |
| 29 | If the admission etc is delivered late but in a default action before judgment is entered or in a fixed date action before the return day , then the court proceeds as if the admission etc had been filed in time , as far as possible . |
| 30 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |