Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | D Company had spent the previous day digging a line of trenches to cover a series of vehicle checkpoints on all the main roads , and were just settling down for their first day 's occupation of the trenches . |
| 2 | With the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill still bogged down in its 13th day in committee , the back-bench loyalists vented their anger on the Tory rebels . |
| 3 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |
| 4 | Jim went off for his first day at work in a mood of tender incredulity , still unable to stop smiling . |
| 5 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 6 | True the first formers had had to go to bed an hour earlier , but they all voted it was worth it , Gwendoline felt vicious about the whole affair , she 'd determining not to be put off by her first day there . |
| 7 | I went into the job feeling confident enough , but the wind that got up for our first day soon knocked that out of me . |
| 8 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 9 | On average the infants in both groups were operated on on their second day in hospital . |