Example sentences of "be [verb] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | On arrival , however , Sir John French heard that Lanrezac 's Fifth Army had been attacked the previous day and was no longer able to cross the River Sambre . |
| 2 | The incidents that are reported the following day are necessarily the more memorable ones — memorable for their oddity . |
| 3 | As Bob Merryfield was having his dram Charlie broached the subject of rabbits and Parkinson said he could have a pair , as a number had been shot the previous day . |
| 4 | Mark states that the next morning Jesus and his disciples walked passed the fig tree that had been cursed the previous day . |
| 5 | Nine others had been arrested the previous day , he added , " following a search operation by the army " in which one soldier had been killed and two wounded . |
| 6 | Keeling had been arrested the previous day and put on a flight to London . |
| 7 | A lawyer speaking for the families said they would be appealing against the Place of Safety orders , and that the appeal would be heard the following day in Kirkwall Sheriff Court . |
| 8 | Cassette tapes and rolls of film had to be posted the following day in envelopes that were tough enough not to burst and yet could be easily opened by customs officials . |
| 9 | The allies have to remember that , even if Mr Hussein were to fall upon his ( or someone else 's ) sword tomorrow , he might be replaced the following day by someone just as dangerous and aggressive . |
| 10 | I lay there with absolutely no idea what I would be doing the following day or if I stood any chance of being selected by the Legion . |
| 11 | A list showing the subjects and the times will be published the following day . |
| 12 | Conjointly , a second attack was to be launched the following day on the Right Bank to capture Fort Vaux , whose enfilading guns had also stopped the Fifth Army on its other flank . |
| 13 | Further skirmishes will be held the following day at Highfields Park , University Boulevard . |
| 14 | On May 14 , police arrested more than 1,000 Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) supporters in Sind , following an announcement by PPP leader Benazir Bhutto that protest rallies were to be held the following day over alleged ballot-rigging in earlier local elections . |
| 15 | Izvestiya of July 28 reported that a peace agreement had been signed the previous day after two days of talks by representatives of the political parties , the official leadership , religious leaders and security service representatives . |
| 16 | It was now Friday , and the first volunteers were expected the following day ! |
| 17 | Now the suite was in my name , so I was charged with possession of all these drugs , and with assault , and with a lot of other charges like operating a dive , running a disorderly house and all silly charges which were dropped the following day . |
| 18 | when we were looking the other day , he quite fancies it . |
| 19 | as I say erm we 've got those but we were looking the other day and were quite amazed at how many different flowers there are out . |
| 20 | The other church leaders were released after several hours in custody , although three were re-arrested the following day . |
| 21 | THE MINEMA IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE makes a welcome reopening with La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento ( 15 ) , the shorter version of Jacques Rivette 's splendid La Belle Noiseuse which runs for four hours and which we were shown the other day . |
| 22 | Pawar was eventually sworn in as Defence Minister on June 26 after being replaced the previous day as Chief Minister of Maharashtra by Sudhakarrao Naik . |
| 23 | Remember what you were saying the other day . |
| 24 | We 've got a got a minute or two some some friends of ours were saying the other day they 've booked a holiday at er very near the Por Portagil Portuguese Spanish border on the South Do you know it ? |
| 25 | Ca n't get rid of him , yeah and that fits in with what we were saying the other day about the Freudian kind of relation between the three of them . |
| 26 | Actually , me and Joe were saying the other day , like ever erm who was it , someone said something about people being fat or whatever and someone 's gone , oh yeah , like Helena , you know jokingly and erm and me and Joe both turned round and said yeah but she 's not fat though is she , she 's like more you 're more wide are n't you ? |
| 27 | We we were saying the other day yeah we reckon we reckon yeah she looks like erm oi oi oi you know Oi oi oi you know the Fraggles yeah ? |
| 28 | No-one was hurt and they were found the following day , after a search by RAF aircraft , Crocombe and the other seven passengers were rescued by an RAF Vickers Valencia transport . |
| 29 | The decapitated bodies of 33 people were recovered the following day ; most reports gave a death toll of at least 36 , but cited a survivor as stating that 85 had died . |
| 30 | We were talking the other day about the wonders of the natural world . |