Example sentences of "day i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR TWO DAYS I WENT ABOUT RACKING MY BRAINS FOR A PLOT OF ANY SORT ; – ON THE SECOND NIGHT I DREAMED THE SCENE AT THE WINK ) W , AND A SCENE AFTERWARD SPLIT IN TWO , IN WHICH HYDEPURSUED FOR SOME CRIME , TOOK THE POWDER AND UNDERWENT THE CHANGE IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS PURSUERS . |
| 2 | For a couple of days I got on with life 's rich pageant without thinking any more of Jo or her bloody credit cards . |
| 3 | In those days I brought about stability |
| 4 | These days I seek out radical publishers only for nostalgic reasons . |
| 5 | These days I peeked out at the world through unevenly rose-tinted underwear . |
| 6 | My , next day I come in and say oh I 'm going to add some money to what you 've got , and you think oh that 's good . |
| 7 | But once you have unfolded an ordnance survey map and made the cheese and pickle sandwiches , it 's hard to change your mind , and so on a hot June day I set off up the zig-zagging tourist path from Glen Nevis at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 8 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 9 | The following day I signed up for an accountancy course as an ‘ extra option ’ . |
| 10 | On the day I came up here , there were no workmen and the deserted new village was occupied only by horses , wandering at liberty between the half-finished buildings , the machinery and the piles of materials — hardly the setting for which they had been intended when set loose for the summer to forage for themselves . |
| 11 | Actually he pinpointed it to the day I came back from hospital . |
| 12 | The day I came back and I had n't seen . |
| 13 | That night I went to sleep in a tree for the second time , and the next day I went on with my journey . |
| 14 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 15 | And er one day I went up there and er erm in there for for over two hours right , and who 's the the P A er used to be er . |
| 16 | They were just , it was just a one day I went round there shopping and they had , and I bought some beige ones for the kitchen . |
| 17 | And the next day I went off and there was n't even a snail |
| 18 | The other day when we had a very hot day , it was quite a hot day and over mid day I went out to do something in the garden there and her milk was still on the step and it was in the sun . |
| 19 | We were four days in Piraeus and every day I went back to the Acropolis . |
| 20 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
| 21 | The other day I went back into the city to walk round some of my old haunts . |
| 22 | The next day I went down to where I used to work . |
| 23 | Besides , the next day I went down with glandular fever . |
| 24 | At 5pm that day I went along to Anouska Hempel 's very individual and attractive showroom at 2 Pond Place , Chelsea , where I saw her really lovely couture collection , for which she derived the inspiration from Eastern Europe . |
| 25 | And then , the next day I went along and he actually caught the five foot one and ki and killed it and he gave us a load of steaks off it that I sort of |
| 26 | The doctor started work the day I went in , and she pre-warned me and I said to him , no big cuts please ? |
| 27 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 28 | Stick it out for the fortnight , I could n't take any more and the day I got out , I went and scored . |
| 29 | He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out . |
| 30 | On the day I got out they picked us up in a taxi at the prison and then we went to the hospital to pick him up . |