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 | They seek a chance to rebuild their lives in safety , hoping that one day they may be able to return home . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The other children , my playmates , meant little to me ; so little that one day they all rose from the field and vanished , like angels . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I used to dream that one day they would call out for a 10-year-old from the audience to give them a hand . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 28 | But their real hope is that one day they 'll be able to take them home . |
| 29 | The Nairacs , now in their eighties , declined to comment , but they 're said to be hopeful that one day they WILL be able to give their son a proper burial . |
| 30 | The hardest lesson learned from such an exercise is that the emergency services from Oxfordshire , Gloucestershire and Warwickshire believe that one day they will combione again , to deal with the real thing … what emergency planners call the nightmare scenario . |