Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [art] day " in BNC.

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1 That I should ever see the day … ’
2 Yeah the week after that week I should n't have a day off
3 It might only postpone the day , but even one day is breathing space , and I fancy he 's sharp enough to make up a plausible story , once he knows the odds , or to persuade this witness to a different tale .
4 He said : ‘ We might not see the day of liberation but it will come . ’
5 I 'll never forget the day he left .
6 I 'll never forget the day I saw it .
7 You 'd rather have a day out at York racecourse than at Headingley if truth were known , would n't you ?
8 She could not spend the day looking out of the window .
9 Several days later he still could not name the day :
10 Most high flying executives , he told me , could not survive a day without a list in lieu of a memory .
11 Cecilia could clearly remember the days before refrigerators were in general use — she did not have one until 1952 — and remember too the smell of the joint by Sunday lunchtime if you had been imprudent enough to buy it on Friday .
12 During this time the manager could also keep the day 's team informed of bureau , area and central NACAB matters .
13 It said that it simply could n't foresee the day when revenues from licensing ANDF , to its principal members for starters , would start to pay for the cost of development .
14 Apart from that one time when Gloria went off instead to cheer the King , Dot could n't remember a day when they had n't been to visit whatever hospital he was in .
15 Also , there are situations in which it could well save the day .
16 With all the flowers- and the birds- and the presence of the Sea , the purity & brightness of your own heart could surely take a day nearly perfect .
17 I never thought I 'd even see the day we finished it .
18 It has to be said that this is a massive walk , particularly for you if you do n't know Ted , and you could certainly fill a day with only these two peaks .
19 Oh and you would you would just get a day off for the for the funeral if it was a near relative to you .
20 Woe betide any man who recognised one of these garments as his own , for it meant he would not survive the day .
21 If people lose employment for a day , they would normally lose a day 's pay .
22 ( 4 ) The period of 48 hours referred to in subsection ( 2 ) above shall not include a day which is a Sunday , Christmas Day , New Year 's Day , Good Friday , a bank holiday , or a public holiday , or a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning .
23 ‘ Oh , Katie , that we would ever see the day … . ’
24 This magical number may have rendered the split-screen sequence superfluous ; but most Astaire and Charisse fans would probably give a day 's pay to see it once .
25 Well the thing is you probably would n't have a day would you ?
26 At other times her minimalist approach seems vaguely stilted , and even her immensely watchable face ca n't carry the day .
27 I 'd love to be back in Bishop Auckland just now , if only for the gossip , but I ca n't do a day 's canvassing and sometimes feel a bit of a passenger .
28 He 's got the gall to phone up on Tuesday and say Eileen ca n't do a day , we 're going to be short of Eileen .
29 But I ca n't try every day , that 's the trouble .
30 Mr Peniket would certainly consider it odd and would again recall the days of old Canon Flewett .
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