Example sentences of "[vb pp] on the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The USSR Cabinet responded on the following day by banning all rallies in Moscow until April 15 . |
| 3 | Capobianco , who was a close associate of Paz Zamora , resigned on the following day , and was replaced by Carlos Armando Saavedra Bruno . |
| 4 | A Slovak without party affiliation , Ehrenberger replaced Theodor Petrik , who had resigned on the previous day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A certificate of attendance was presented on the final day by the chief nursing officer who also stayed for the evaluation . |
| 7 | In previous World Cups , two days were allocated to each match so that contests which were not concluded on the first could be decided on the reserve day . |
| 8 | Pledges on which less than ten shillings had been lent became the property of the pawnbroker if they were not collected on the appointed day . |
| 9 | Colin Todd was promoted from first-team coach and Boro were saved on the final day of the season when they beat Newcastle United at Ayresome Park . |
| 10 | Nigeria 's President Babangida on Aug. 16 spoke out against unilateral production increases , while Indonesia had said on the previous day that OPEC should first let the industrialized countries draw down their stockpiles . |
| 11 | Application for payment out may be made on the return day , or it may be made earlier by application on notice . |
| 12 | They will help make sure that gas , electricity and telephone connections are made on the right day . |
| 13 | Discrepant entries of peak expiratory flow accounted for 15% of those made on the appropriate day , and three quarters of patients made at least one discrepant entry . |
| 14 | Indeed , the measure of the difficulty they were in can be seen in their own statement of 6 August in defence of their lack of achievement , made on the very day they had been disappointed by Cecil 's letter ; for Knox was inscribing a letter from Argyll and lord James to Sir James Croft , captain of Berwick , saying that they were ‘ sorry to be judged slow , negligent and cold in our proceedings … . |
| 15 | They used to hold Hury Show in a field alongside the pub , and there was a wooden hut called the Show Room to be used on the big day , where dances were also held on a regular basis . |
| 16 | According to Burton rough watercolour drawings of bull-running incidents , known as ‘ bull-for-evers ’ , were sold on the festal day and were often mounted on the bullard 's hat . |
| 17 | Strike committees in Byelorussia decided to resume on May 22 the general strike which had gripped the republic in April [ see pp. 38129-30 ] , because a session of the republic 's Supreme Soviet which had opened on the previous day was still refusing to put on its agenda demands for a coalition government . |
| 18 | The last Spanish governor left Milan on 29 September 1706 , to be replaced on the following day by Austrian and Piedmontian troops . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh ho , m'sieur , ’ said the little man , ‘ I was not , as your expressive idiom puts it , born on the preceding day . ’ |
| 20 | Provisional total raised on the Fun Day is around £1,800 . |
| 21 | The SPA confirmed a proposal , formulated on the previous day by the 20th plenary meeting of the sixth central committee of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party ( KWP ) , to appoint Kang Song San as Premier of the Administrative Council in place of Yon Hyong Muk . |
| 22 | He was officially appointed on the following day , and served as Master until Christmas 1644 . |
| 23 | Fighting resumed on the following day [ see pp. 36972 ; 37038 ] . |
| 24 | A parliamentary commission of inquiry had concluded on the previous day that Bogdanovic had lost control of riot police , who had exceeded their authority . |
| 25 | In the ensuing days the President 's health was closely monitored and , after a further burst of accelerated and irregular heart activity on May 7 , it was announced on the following day that the source of Bush 's condition was an over-active thyroid gland . |
| 26 | The guard was removed on the following day , but the incident exemplified the renewed struggle for control over the influential liberal daily newspaper . |
| 27 | With ponds dug on the line , or streams banked up into ‘ flashes ’ to form reflecting points on the beacon track so that it might be checked when at least once a year the beacon was fired on the traditional day . |
| 28 | This division was aggravated on the following day when Obuchi chose to fill all executive positions within the faction with his supporters , thereby declining to make even a gesture of reconciliation towards his opponents . |
| 29 | The houses will then almost certainly return to the rates established on the previous day at the next round of assistance . |
| 30 | The statement prompted on the following day a message from UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd expressing surprise at its content . |