Example sentences of "that [adj] day [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My thighs are so wobbly that each day I thank God that my stomach covers them |
| 2 | Not that you 're interested , but my thighs are so wobbly that each day I thank God that my stomach covers them . |
| 3 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 4 | You will not have to record every tiny thing you eat or work out calories but it is important that each day you weigh yourself if you possibly can . |
| 5 | It had been his first and only history lesson , and throughout their hungry and needy years in Bunarkaig he never lost the sense that they lived under threat , that government was pitiless , and that some day they would have to fight again for the right to live at peace in their own place . |
| 6 | You could leave them behind so much more easily , to get on with the present , if you knew that some day you were going to return . |
| 7 | I try to make excuses for people and I try to live as a Christian — but I still ca n't stop myself wishing that some day you 'll go through similar torments . |
| 8 | I knew he had a private hope that some day he might make a book with them . |
| 9 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 10 | For her at this stage , not crying is a great achievement but she hopes that some day she will reach a better balance so that her tears will be for herself rather than to make an impression on others . |
| 11 | She died last month in her 80th year , knowing — as we all do — that the practice has not lived up to the vision , but still believing that some day it might . |
| 12 | No doubt some will stay on to summer in Shetland and encourage us to hope that some day it too may be found nesting . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew that some day it would come out about my Irish grandmother , ’ said Amiss . |
| 14 | She was a hard worker , and I call myself a hard worker and I know that some days I push myself too hard and my mother 's done that all her life . |
| 15 | When you consider that these days we are running well over a second faster , your can see by how much British sprinting has advanced . |
| 16 | Or is this line of thought simply a rationalization of the truth , which is that these days she and Charles disagree about almost everything ? |
| 17 | ‘ You know perfectly well , Marler , that these days I only go after a story I think is really worthwhile . |
| 18 | They seek a chance to rebuild their lives in safety , hoping that one day they may be able to return home . |
| 19 | If they come from the Berlin orchestra , they need no references , so other orchestras will take them ; though we know that one day they will return to this orchestra . |
| 20 | The other children , my playmates , meant little to me ; so little that one day they all rose from the field and vanished , like angels . |
| 21 | Where we used to see an organ with its automated conductor and maybe a waterfall thrown in for good measure , we now have canned music and disc jockeys aping their favourites from radio or TV and hoping against hope that one day they too may be discovered . |
| 22 | I just feel I have to know certain things and that one day they will be of great use to me in understanding the world . ’ |
| 23 | Let me inscribe these words on this papyrus of a person that I have become and trust , my saviour , that one day they will enlighten me . |
| 24 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 25 | All the drivers are exciting , and people who are stuck in this pattern of behaviour often have an incentive to stay in it — they feel that one day they will succeed , they will finally be perfect , they will at last please everyone ; they will prove that they can get everything done more quickly than everyone else , and they 'll know that they can undertake anything under the most difficult conditions . |
| 26 | In it , he entrusted his ‘ six sons ’ to the protection of his ‘ most celebrated and very dear friend ’ , adding that they were the products of long and laborious labour , but that he was encouraged by the hope that one day they would prove a source of consolation . |
| 27 | But nobody told the fish over millions of years of evolution that one day they would be prized for their decorative/educational/food value and put in overcrowded conditions ( relatively speaking ) in glass tanks/bowls , or ponds . |
| 28 | ‘ I used to dream that one day they would call out for a 10-year-old from the audience to give them a hand . |
| 29 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 30 | In the latter , ‘ in criticism , proposal and debate , the leading members of the opposition are … guided by their own previous experience in the various ministries and their expectation that one day they themselves may have to administer the policies now under debate . ’ |