Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last instructions given , and the operation arranged for the following day , the couple went away , and Robert said , ‘ It 's a pity , is n't it ? |
| 2 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 3 | The price factors are calculated for the first day of the delivery month , and adjustments have to be made for accrued interest where the first day of the delivery month does not coincide with a coupon payment date . |
| 4 | Five target fish were nominated for the second day as the anglers struggled to overcome persistent torrential rain and buffeting winds . |
| 5 | Five and a half thousand men were killed and twenty-six thousand wounded on the blackest day of the American Civil War . |
| 6 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
| 7 | The admission by Hammersmith and Fulham was disclosed on the first day of a case brought by Anthony Hazell , the local district auditor . |
| 8 | Radio Venceremos , the FMLN 's broadcasting station , claimed on the same day that the armed forces had sustained 475 dead and 1,395 wounded . |
| 9 | Anne Marriner , 23 , admitted attempting to obtain property by deception and two counts of criminal damage all committed on the same day during January . |
| 10 | Police urged racegoers to be on their guard after six separate incidents of forged £20 notes were reported on the first day . |
| 11 | The Independent reported on the same day that control of Kuwait 's security and administration was in the hands of Ali Hasan al Majid , Iraq 's Minister of Local Government and architect of the government 's 1987-88 military campaign against Kurdish rebels . |
| 12 | The Press Trust of India news agency reported on the same day that the two sides had agreed to finalize arrangements for reopening consulates-general in Bombay and Shanghai . |
| 13 | The US press reported on the same day that the two men whose extradition was being sought , Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , had met for two days , earlier in May , with a leading Washington criminal defence attorney , Plato Cacheris . |
| 14 | President Jaime Paz Zamora was reported on the same day to have requested that the Congress authorize the presence of US troops in the eastern Beni region , and sought congressional approval for a law to support the presence of foreign troops in the future . |
| 15 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |
| 16 | In the case of Henry VI , he was deposed on 4 March 1461 ( thus ending his 39th regnal year ) , to be succeeded on the same day by Edward IV . |
| 17 | The USSR Cabinet responded on the following day by banning all rallies in Moscow until April 15 . |
| 18 | A UK Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded on the same day by saying that it was for Iran to make the first gesture and that the UK would " not accept Iranian intervention in [ its ] internal affairs " . |
| 19 | The Security Council voted on the same day to adopt Resolution 700 issuing guidelines to facilitate implementation of the international arms embargo against Iraq [ see p. 38165 ] . |
| 20 | Capobianco , who was a close associate of Paz Zamora , resigned on the following day , and was replaced by Carlos Armando Saavedra Bruno . |
| 21 | A Slovak without party affiliation , Ehrenberger replaced Theodor Petrik , who had resigned on the previous day . |
| 22 | Even the idea that criminals are physically distinguishable has continued to be pursued to the present day ( Hartl et al. , 1982 ) , although it later took the form of relating types of body build to personality types . |
| 23 | Newfoundlanders were mortified on the very day of their 40th anniversary to learn that Ottawa had agreed that France could fish an extra 11000 tonnes of cod from these east coast waters . |
| 24 | The public were advised that the ward would be ready to receive on Saturday August 13th , and that ‘ medical gentlemen would be ready to give their advice to all such out-patients as shall come properly recommended on the same day ’ . |
| 25 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 26 | What this usually means is that payment is expected by the last day of the month following the month in which the invoice is issued . |
| 27 | But because he was n't , I worked as hard as I could until dark , about night time , to get them done for the next day . |
| 28 | The lesson was learned , and in subsequent years a photocall has been organized for the first day , when the Prince and Princess pose sweetly for the cameras on the understanding that thereafter the media will go home so the two can holiday in peace . |
| 29 | The women appear rather to get a share of the compensation for the " " il fit " " , the " unpleasant trick " ( 4184 ) that the clerks had suffered during the preceding day . |
| 30 | It was granted for the following day and a deputation was formed consisting of Dr. Paisley , leader of the DUP ; Rev. William Beattie , deputy leader of the same party ; Cecil Harvey , Vanguard Unionist Assembly member from the Saintfield area ; and the present writer . |