Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 2 | Then it was a half-hour 's drive from our base to Christophe and Hedwige 's house , and from there Mike would set off on an hour 's run with Christophe through the forest , still in darkness , to ensure they reached the chimpanzees ' nest site before the occupants moved off for the day . |
| 3 | The youngest visitor , aged about six and dressed ready for bed in pyjamas , helped his father to decipher the jottings in his field notebook and then reported earnestly on the day 's tally . |
| 4 | Iraq categorically denied such reports , but they persisted in the West and one US news agency reported later in the day that Iraqi troops had actually crossed into the Kuwaiti-Saudi Neutral Zone . |
| 5 | A further 1,800 troops came ashore during the day , and an exchange of fire was reported between US Marines and gunmen at Mogadishu port . |
| 6 | Somebody did , I learnt later in the day and so did Viscount Lewisham , president of MCC . |
| 7 | ‘ Bess Halidon , your mother , gave me proof of it when she came here on the day prior to her death and asked that you be found employment . ’ |
| 8 | That augured well for the day . |
| 9 | In recent months the residents of the area around the bar had been complaining almost nightly to the police about the noise that went on until the small hours and about the hypodermics left strewn around the piazza , a serious health hazard to the children who played there during the day . |
| 10 | Not the same as those you ranted on about the day we first met ? " |
| 11 | She 's talking about her film Ghost , and US tabloid reports claiming that husband Bruce Willis showed up on the day of her crucial love scene with Patrick Swayze wielding a baseball bat . |
| 12 | Over in Cheltenham , 6 teams of 4 turned out for the day 's main event , won by the team from the St James Hotel . |
| 13 | Can anyone help with any information about a nasty scrape to my car which happened sometime during the day at Rutherford . |
| 14 | In fact , however , new disappointments followed on Hitler 's confident promises : the bombing , almost unimpeded by German defences , intensified ; the situation on the eastern Front worsened almost by the day ; and in the west an invasion was expected at any time . |
| 15 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 16 | But when parliament met later in the day to summon Congress formally , Mr Khasbulatov for the second time in three days stepped back from delivering the final stroke . |
| 17 | Highlights from the past include 400 class members ( clad in blue tunics , what else ? ) taking part in the 1968 Norfolk Show in the presence of Queen Elizabeth , the Queen Mother , who remarked later in the day to some class members how much she had enjoyed their display , and Norfolk 's Jubilee Rally in 1977 , when Molly Braithwaite was presented with a bouquet from Norfolk 's oldest class member , 82 year old Mrs Grapes . |
| 18 | I used to walk between the two parts of the building — that is between my studio/study and the main house — and stare up at the pulley that hangs over the hall , an imitation of the one that hung there in the days when a real miller hoisted his sacks of grain . |
| 19 | Cornelius drew the curtains and gazed out upon the day . |
| 20 | She crept out of the day , back , down again into peace . |
| 21 | When the cold engine that was the city had coughed and kicked and finally started up for the day , then she 'd set out about her business . |
| 22 | He laid the cross down and his mind flew back to the day his sisters were born … . |
| 23 | I thought so on the day you stole Andrew 's horse ; I still think so . |
| 24 | Our grandmothers grew up in the days when women rose at dawn , laid the sticks and lit the fire . |
| 25 | I thought wryly of the days , not many years before , when I was holed up in one dark room on the wrong side of town . |
| 26 | Hunting , disturbance , and pesticide residues had all played their part ; but the major culprits were river boards and their successors which scoured the banks of undergrowth in which otters lay up during the day , and felled the mighty riverside trees , such as ash and sycamore , in whose buttress roots otters made their holts . |
| 27 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 28 | Paul found that he could not stay with her at present ; he excused himself , got up from the table , fetched his hat and a stout stick , and went out into the day . |
| 29 | As the shadows closed over the land the heat went out of the day . |
| 30 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |