Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did . |
| 2 | Well , there were n't so many old people then when we came here we were classed as one of the oldest people because er they were all very young people and you were talking about Dame Leah Manning and she came to me one day and she said we 're going to have a problem on the town because it 's a very young town . |
| 3 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 4 | ‘ I love it when you do that … ’ she whispered to him one day as they made love , and he laughed softly , looking down at her , such warmth in his face that her heart stopped and her smile faded . |
| 5 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 6 | That were what she said to her that day and she says to you , if you carry on I 'm gon na have you put in that orphan 's home . |
| 7 | ‘ Could n't you discourage the poor chap , ’ Eleanor Fuller said to her one day , ‘ instead of sitting back and letting him moon around hoping your tyres need pumping up . |
| 8 | Susanna , Will 's older daughter , was now eighteen , and Will said to her one day : |
| 9 | Superintendent said to me one day , ‘ You do n't like this fellow very well . ’ |
| 10 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Tell me more about your country , ’ he said to me one day . |
| 12 | ‘ What are we going to do , Toby ? ’ he said to me one day . |
| 13 | ‘ If you want to do something useful , ’ my mother said to me one day , ‘ you can help me propagate the cactuses . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . " |
| 15 | Three a year which was very nice and er oh well whilst I was there , you see , erm I landed up in , in Peel because I was going on a and she said to me one day this Miss er what are you doing today ? |
| 16 | Because erm Derek was looking for a supervisor and he said to me one day in a moment of desperation he said who can I make up ? |
| 17 | But , said to me one day erm |
| 18 | he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy . |
| 19 | And he sa and he said to me one day , are you fucking deaf ! |
| 20 | That you did not mean what you said to me that day . ’ |
| 21 | So erm anyway goes in , I said to him other day , I asked him other week , he says our turn to give me a ring |
| 22 | I said to him one day . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're losing your hair , Will , ’ I said to him one day . |
| 24 | er , now he does n't like to talk about it you see , and I said to him one day look Paul for god sake , oh , he 'll tell his mum , but he does n't like to talk about it to me |