Example sentences of "i [verb] [num] day " in BNC.

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1 I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with .
2 Now what I mean by that , is that every , you know , twenty working day month , I know from analysing my time , that I lose two days , two full days to major interruptions .
3 That one I got five days ’ notice for and it was quite nerve-wracking , as there was tons of complicated stuff to learn .
4 As I say one day it might be quiet , and the next day , something might happen .
5 It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about .
6 I came one day on a folder full of tinted engravings .
7 I hope one day some research may be done on the subject .
8 ‘ I do n't think I could stand being a nurse because I would get too involved , so I hope one day to join the fire brigade , ’ she said .
9 ‘ The campus looks neat , and I am proud of the new buildings , but as one looks down Richmond Road , the image is of derelict mills — I hope one day that the University will own all the derelict land and that we will expand our campus on to it . ’
10 Dey are militant an I like dem I hope one day we 'll meet
11 I hope one day you 'll forgive me , Juliet .
12 I have kept a journal , which I hope one day to publish .
13 He 's a superb Secretary for Trade and Industry , and I shall be here answering questions every Tuesday and Thursday , and I hope one day he may know how to ask a good one .
14 We had every other Sunday off , you see , but otherwise we worked and did n't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we could n't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on , you see , and er , and we were er perhaps I know one day we did n't finish until five o'clock in the morning
15 so I 'm stuck for the next three weeks and half a week because I , you know I get the , August bank holiday I get two days , saying that they 're probably going up to Grans for a week in the holidays er sometime to stay with her particularly with her being on her own as well this year
16 All black it was , I spent two days cleaning it up .
17 In July of this year , along with the overseas director Mike Arrinson , I spent seven days in Bangladesh .
18 ECHO FROM THE PAST In 1980 Marlies and I spent three days travelling with Senator Edward Kennedy in his motorcade during the presidential primary campaign .
19 This failed and I spent three days in a state of constant terror before my ( surprisingly ! ) safe arrival in Ladakh .
20 I spent three days in Holloway on remand .
21 I spent three days plucking up the courage .
22 But what a delight it was to come across your adventure , particularly so as Sept saw me doing 6 days canoeing the Zam with Shearwater , rafting Vic Falls 4–19 and a flip at 18 , and I spent 2 days at Kariba lake on a houseboat .
23 I remember one day she slapped me across the jaw .
24 I remember one day on the 8th there was a little dinghy turned over on the lake and he hooked his tee-shot , hit the boat and came out on the fairway — the shape of things to come !
25 ‘ Well , I remember one day , there was an awful row and a crowd gathered and Mary Jane Worty said : ‘ I 'll come down as long as that young PC there takes me into Argyle Street Bridewell . ’
26 I remember one day I was serving lunch and the doctor strode in during the meal , walked up to his patient who was eating his lunch , pulled his head up and demanded , ‘ What is it this time ? ’
27 I remember one day Tim saying to me , ‘ Mummy , do you think the ‘ Jackanese ’ are sleeping in my bed in Rangoon ? '' I thought that they probably were , tho' his bed was a drop-side cot !
28 I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work .
29 Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age .
30 I remember one day in the 1940s sitting at a table on the first floor of the Crown in Fleet Street , next to a table where an attractive young woman , then unknown to me , was sitting in front of a plate of smoked salmon and opposite an empty place furnished with another plate of smoked salmon , which must have been ordered in advance .
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