Example sentences of "up [prep] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 2 | Brought up in the Seventh Day Adventist Church he would later be expelled and join the Branch Davidians . |
| 3 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 4 | In the 19th century , biologists , growing up in the halcyon days of the Industrial Revolution , saw all life as a struggle to survive . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 6 | To a backdrop of deserted stands , Andrew Hudson becomes the first South African to score a hundred on his Test debut : ( below ) Curtly Ambrose mops up on the final day , bowling Meyrick Pringle . |
| 7 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 8 | The most useful contribution he could make was to turn up on the right day in the right uniform , cut ribbons , and make cosy speeches . |
| 9 | He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day . |
| 10 | This man and my father had joined up on the same day , they went to the same school , played football together , both courted my mother and both fell in love with her — and she ended up marrying them both . |
| 11 | Theatres were closed during the Cromwellian period , but with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 came Court comedy and the beginning of the ‘ comedy of manners ’ which has , in one way or another , been popular right up to the present day . |
| 12 | Similar settlement histories have occurred in the Gangetic plain and Doabs of northern India ( Schlich 1889 : 187–238 ) and Brazil up to the present day . |
| 13 | The Swedish influence has continued up to the present day , where the Faunus Kennel has a great influence on the breeding stock in Norway . |
| 14 | From this turning-point , enclosure and drainage were to shape both lives and landscape in the English countryside , right up to the present day . |
| 15 | The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich presents a survey of maritime history from the Tudor period up to the present day . |
| 16 | The columns ( and there may be twenty or more ) represent chronological periods — pre-historic , pre- and post-Conquest , and up to the present day — and the numerous rows represent identified fields of study . |
| 17 | Fred Archer , Jem Mason , Steve Donoghue , Gordon Richards , John Francome and Lester Piggott up to the present day . |
| 18 | What emerges from an examination of the FFYP is that it set a pattern for the Soviet economy that persists up to the present day . |
| 19 | The Museum of Leathercraft in Bridge Street houses a nationally important collection of leathergoods dating from Egyptian times up to the present day . |
| 20 | Here you will meet favourite characters from stage and screen , also learn about the activities and suppression of piracy right up to the present day . |
| 21 | From the primitive algae of the Archaeozoic era , which ultimately would continue as mosses and fungi right up to the present day , there was a branching off of the lycopodiates , early ferns , cycladals and filicales . |
| 22 | Paul Levy 's new television series and book looks at the culinary ghosts of Christmas past and brings them up to the present day |
| 23 | Illert , through his research , is now in a position to rigorously describe the shapes of past , present and future shell forms , and as sea shells are amongst the best preserved of all fossils , we have a progression throughout the entire fossil record from the Pre-Cambrian era right up to the present day . |
| 24 | Father Giles reflected on the Beatitudes — their original meaning and the meaning that has developed in the course of time , up to the present day . |
| 25 | ‘ Every bullet has his billet ’ is a distinctively modern saying , first recorded in that form in 1765 , and in use up to the present day to indicate that sometimes no precautions work ; yet saying the proverb , and believing it , probably never stopped anyone taking cover . |
| 26 | I would no longer take sides with any party … which is my position up to the present day ’ . |
| 27 | The project , which is to create an unprecedented space for the products of Scottish artists up to the present day , needs all the friends it can get , as it has still to be sold to government and any private benefactors . |
| 28 | It includes for the first time in one volume additional indexes for porcelain painters , enamellers and silhouettists , incorporating the work of artists up to the present day . |
| 29 | ( It is also remarkable how commonly ideas similar to his have kept re-surfacing up to the present day , often without any apparent awareness on the part of their authors that Schleiermacher had already developed them , or that the subsequent movement of theology was to expose serious inadequacies in them . ) |
| 30 | Anthropologists have continued to employ participant observation as their major method of data collection up to the present day but , from about the 1930s onwards , sociology and anthropology grew further and further apart . |