Example sentences of "up the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact my gynaecologist looked up the other day and said , ‘ Dame Edna , when will you stop giving ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ My friend , Lord Auden and I cut one up the other day , ’ she says ( of an old mahogany sideboard ) . |
| 3 | Yet another rarity turned up the other day and which I illustrate here . |
| 4 | A girlfriend rang me up the other day . |
| 5 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 6 | Well she come up the other day , they wanted to exchange Kelly 's old house for , for , for her , somebody wants it er part exchange Kelly 's house , you know then go and |
| 7 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 8 | I said erm I said to Alison oh aye cos she rang up the other day and I asked her if she 'd found a fella . |
| 9 | Cos I 'd cleaned it up the other day cos it had mildew on the bottom of it ! |
| 10 | And I said when I walked up the other day |
| 11 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 12 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
| 13 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 14 | Having collected the mail and picked up the following day 's patrol tasks , the vehicles arrive and we return to Rosemount for lunch . |
| 15 | They would lie up the following day along the rocky escarpment which ran parallel to the coastal plain to observe their targets , the airfields at Timimi and Gazala . |
| 16 | She had promised Julie that she would be well enough to get up the following day and they would take a trip in the pony and trap to visit friends in the area who Julie had not seen for years . |
| 17 | After a long week , I received a phone call at lunchtime to say that the specimen was at the airport about to be collected , and I made arrangements to go up the following day . |
| 18 | Despite being in extreme pain and feeling ill , he turned up the following day at rehearsals with long sleeves disguising his burns . |
| 19 | Anyway , he rang up the following day and said ‘ Hear you 've gone bust . |
| 20 | When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched . |
| 21 | His wife rang up the following day . |
| 22 | I needed to call up the heroic days when Dennis was still around , and we were young and carefree , bonking our brains out while he shouted banalities from the foot of the stairs . |
| 23 | The traditional elements that make up the perfect day are all here and it 's equally delicious — but careful use of low-fat spreads , skimmed milk and steamed vegetables mean big savings in calories . |
| 24 | As winter took its hold , banking up the short days , the long cold nights between autumn and spring , thoughts and imaginations often drifted to hunting . |
| 25 | By the kindest count , seven catches were grassed at Auckland , and six more chances were spilled on this opening day , with Gooch missed twice off Cairns before reaching double figures , after a 90-minute delay while the groundstaff mopped up the previous day 's heavy rain . |
| 26 | Some Italian papers publish lists of those rounded up the previous day together with little maps marking the cities where the companies implicated have their factories . |
| 27 | Two towering Indian performances lit up the fourth day , with the ‘ boy wonder ’ Tendulkar going on to his second mouthwatering century of the series , lifting his side to 272 after a ninth-wicket stand of 81 with the stubborn More , who made 43 . |
| 28 | But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ? |
| 29 | But I mean a mother that could n't sleep all night , and get up the next day , having to cope with the family , erm you know , thing things like that , they 're very difficult . |
| 30 | Rosa too woke up the next day unsure whether she had walked in the street below in a dream , but the mud between her toes showed her that she had indeed left the house . |