Example sentences of "and [prep] the [adj] day " in BNC.

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1 The Thames winked , and as the optical day
2 There has , however , been some revival of the device , especially with modern private presses affecting a fondness for the past and for the great days of the colophon , beginning with the great Mainz Psalter of Fust and Schoeffer in 1457 .
3 Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water .
4 On the lighter side of his subject , he 's made a study of gambling habits from a statistical view point , and during the Open Day he 'll be giving a lecture entitled ‘ Horse and Football Pools — Why you should Expect to Lose ’ .
5 Gastrulation , in the sense of continued ingression through the streak , persists up to and during the 10th day of gestation , but towards the end of the 8th day the first signs of organogenesis are apparent .
6 He sailed for Algiers in March 1943 and during the last days of the Tunisian campaign he saw a mere fortnight 's active service .
7 I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine .
8 He tells with equal warmth and fondness of wandering club cricket in the Cotswolds , of bygone battles between those rugby Titans of the South West , Gloucester and Bath , and of the celebrated day in ‘ 77 when Somerset beat the Australians .
9 In ten days , the unknown Fayeds gained permission to own House of Fraser , and throughout the ten days they put continuous lies before the public to justify the Government permissions they had got with such ease .
10 He worked all through the night and into the next day .
11 Dry with no rattling is Spongia and it may follow Aconite if the croup continues after midnight and into the next day .
12 On the night of the 17th and into the next day , the Germans mounted a massive bombardment ; shells are said to have fallen at the rate of 400 a minute .
13 He sat up all night and into the next day until he heard a soft mewling sound like a kitten and knew that the child had been safely delivered after all that pain .
14 In so doing he has provided a book which has been a tremendous help to pastors in every generation since , up to and including the present day .
15 It will be noted that the day space , to be provided on the basis of 4m2 per person , and including the 2 day patients , mean that a 10-bed sub-section would have a total and an 8-bed sub-section would have a day space of 40m 2 .
16 posession and supply of LSD from the first of december and from the following day , possession and supply of amphetamine sulphate .
17 After entering the U.S. under this program and within the 90 day period , a traveller can visit Canada , Mexico or the Caribbean without a visa by any mode of transportation .
18 ( 7 ) On receipt of an application of a kind referred to in subsection ( 6 ) above , and until the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered , the clerk of a licensing board shall make the application , together with the documents lodged therewith , available for inspection by members of the public during normal office hours .
19 Then Clan Douglas established their dynasty , and until the present day , the Douglas family , in their various departments , have played a major part in shaping Scotland 's story .
20 Keep the lights off during this process and until the next day .
21 ‘ The officials at Preston have been nothing but encouraging and in the early days the coaching staff put in a lot of time to make up for my lack of experience .
22 No formal statement of the terms of reference for the team has come to light , and in the early days clear mechanisms for the operation of the project were not always discernible .
23 His light-hearted and amusing banter hid a serious and thoughtful approach to work and to life in general , and one became aware that it was a privilege to know and work with him , both at Woolley Hall and in the early days of Bretton where he came one day each week to teach painting .
24 It was founded by Stan Barnet and Sid Dicker and in the early days met behind the grandstand on match days .
25 In its original meaning çift referred to the smallest unit of land which could support a family , and in the early days of the timar system the çift was the core holding which the timarli farmed himself for the benefit of his own family .
26 The flag has always been a symbol of the militant faith of the Salvation Army and in the early days of the movement invariably became the main target for the larrikins or hoodlums who did their best to destroy the marches and meetings .
27 None of us really knew what we were going to see , and in the early days the tapes were rather artificial because the lessons were all so well prepared , the kids knew they were going to have a video in the classes , it did n't mean that they were always well behaved !
28 Cricket now , and in the final day of the County championship matches ,
29 Cricket … and in the final day of the County Championship match at Cheltenham
30 ( It is worthy of note at this stage that Harris never received his full complement of aircraft and in the final days of the Bomber Offensive his maximum strength of first line aircraft was only 1,625 of which 200 were Mosquitos , ) in one of my Staff College lectures .
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