Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adj] day " in BNC.

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1 I kept a notebook of what I made each day .
2 ‘ T was why I fainted that day .
3 I got all day . ’
4 I found this day the most enjoyable because I 'm used to dealing with people .
5 That was not all I learnt that day .
6 All I ate that day was a piece of bread , which I begged from a farmer eating his supper .
7 Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks .
8 It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about .
9 I came one day on a folder full of tinted engravings .
10 I enjoyed this day , felt I had done something worthwhile and was grateful for the generosity of my sponsors who contributed to such worthy cause .
11 Do n't let's go there again though , cos I spent all day making coffee .
12 Those were the last human voices I heard all day .
13 but I know it cos the other week when I had to work till half past eight for Peter , he was having a dinner party and erm we went down there , I had to go shopping with him , he made me die cos he asked me if I 'd work a bit later and I said yeah I need the money , so I 'll work later so er he made me die because he said in this flare up , this argument when when I worked that day , I mean , I worked all day , I had nothing to eat and I could n't eat af , you know , cos of this trouble I could n't eat after
14 Once I worked all day cutting
15 but I know it cos the other week when I had to work till half past eight for Peter , he was having a dinner party and erm we went down there , I had to go shopping with him , he made me die cos he asked me if I 'd work a bit later and I said yeah I need the money , so I 'll work later so er he made me die because he said in this flare up , this argument when when I worked that day , I mean , I worked all day , I had nothing to eat and I could n't eat af , you know , cos of this trouble I could n't eat after
16 and I started that day with this cold
17 But on the Sunday , perhaps because it was a strange town and I had not yet made friends , I felt all day a sense of doom .
18 I can still feel how I felt that day , nearly fifty years ago .
19 But here 's a toast to all those who played a part in this fall of a climbing journalist : my climbing friends , the helicopter rescue team , the doctors and nurses and our superb National Health Service ( coming from Ebbw Vale I knew one day I 'd have cause to be thankful to Aneurin Bevan ) .
20 I knew one day I would get pregnant .
21 I chose that day to be a Mex because I figured that they were outnumbered by the Micks .
22 I could have been almost anyone I chose that day .
23 But I say I went all day without nothing to eat bloody starved .
24 I listened all day , from the bright , undemanding getting-up-time music to the midnight news , at that terrible hour , owl-season , when newspapers have been put to bed and cold skin grows over the country 's cocoa .
25 When I learned one day that an amateur American flyer had set ‘ the world 's record ’ in altitude for a single-engined aircraft , carrying two to a height of more than 18,000 feet , I saw the possibility of a news story if I could beat that record .
26 So that 's what I did one day and ended up with a job . ’
27 When he died in the plane crash I cried all day .
28 I cried all day long and although Bessie tried hard to tempt me with nice things to eat or my favourite books , I took no pleasure in eating or even in reading .
29 ‘ I did n't mean the things I said that day , my lovely witch .
30 Yeah she will but I said to Tracey I said one day Carla will beat her and she said I know she will .
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