Example sentences of "back to the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 2 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 3 | All he would say was that the paper would be completely new , but would hark back to the great days of the Mirror . |
| 4 | Disputes among Spanish and Indian painters themselves , in some ways antecedents of all subsequent debates around ‘ indigenism ’ , go back to the early days in Cuzco . |
| 5 | Going , going back to the early days you mentioned that erm the dividend , the divi was quite important . |
| 6 | In the early days , back to the early days , what sort of boats would come into Ipswich Docks ? |
| 7 | He will reveal in tonight 's BBC1 Panorama programme that he is worried about facilities at the Berkshire plant run by private contractors since April which date back to the early days of the nuclear age . |
| 8 | In Britain , too , observers have noted instances of direct government interference in the day-to-day running of the railways stretching back to the early days of nationalization . |
| 9 | Tory group leader Coun John Hale said : ‘ It all stems back to the early days when people were encouraged not to pay and the momentum has built up from this . ’ |
| 10 | And that goes back to the early days of silage . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt there was a real danger that we would turn full circle and go back to the dark days under Revie when the manager 's indecision was final . ’ |
| 12 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 13 | Under hypnosis she was taken back to the first day of her stay in hospital — the day before the operation itself . |
| 14 | If you can go back to the first day that you arrived |
| 15 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 16 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 17 | Erm and and and we could take it back to the hundred days episode when the great powers have all er decided to er er to prevent Napoleon from making a comeback in France . |
| 18 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 19 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 20 | In 1963 came the signing of the Anglo-French agreement to build Concorde ( or ‘ Concord ’ as it was at first spelled in Britain ) , and the video faithfully traces it right back to the earliest days of its conception . |
| 21 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 22 | This tradition goes back to the earliest days of the Ottoman state , to Molla Edebali ( d. 726/1326 ) , Osman 's father-in-law , and is based on statements in both the and the . |
| 23 | In a beautifully simple piece of writing Achebe transports us back to the earliest days of colonialism . |
| 24 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |
| 25 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 26 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 27 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 28 | And that in itself was a form of antiquity you know , it it it is it went back to the old days you see . |
| 29 | From The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) onwards , the Western has been informed by a species of bitter nostalgia , looking back to the wild days of the West and questioning the value of the civilisation won by all that exciting gunplay . |
| 30 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |