Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they remained Germans , always dreaming of going back to the Fatherland one day . ’ |
| 2 | The Princess of Wales looks forward to being a Lady of the Garter one day , and if precedent is followed , her appointment will depend on Prince Charles when he becomes King . |
| 3 | There is , however , room for a realistic degree of relaxation in the system and the present 14 day periods allowed for exchange of pleadings will be increased to 28 days , subject to compliance with the overall timetable . |
| 4 | You 'll send me to the churchyard one day ! |
| 5 | Extract 1 : The ghost One day me met a witch Jamaica [ inaudible ] me ( gor ra ) mother — me saw her dere , me sit down an she tell me all the story alrigh% ? |
| 6 | She could feel him find the ring on her third finger , the one Peter had found in the snow one day and thrown across the shop counter to her when nobody had come to claim it . |
| 7 | Yeah I 'm like that but we had a erm conifer type tree it was only so big but and then I and when we we was unloading off the van , this come off and I dug a hole and stuck it in the garden , in the front garden just by the pathways right that 's that but I was washing the car one day , a nice hot day got my shirt off when I come in course I 'd brushed past it I 'd got patterns of the leaves on my on my back . |
| 8 | Then , year by year , the club improved : more and more glass , more lights , more artificial flowers and cactuses , more speakers , more music , and also more and more people , further multiplied by the enormous mirrors which the management one day decided to spread across the walls of the gym . |
| 9 | And when he saw producer Joe Pasternak , the renowned MGM star-maker , approaching him in the corridor one day , Nicholson spoke up : ‘ Hiya , Joe . |
| 10 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
| 11 | A peasant who is especially devoted to St Martin meets the saint one day and is told that his devotion is rewarded by four wishes . |
| 12 | But then he did see him , on the road to the village one day . |
| 13 | Her mother of course was aware that fifteen does not relish the solitude that fifty does , and came back from the village one day when Peony had been particularly silent and lumpish , with the news that Mrs Price who kept an antique shop had her grandchildren staying with her , and she was invited to go round and play tennis with them and have tea . |
| 14 | But tell Edgar Linton I 'll have the boy one day ! |
| 15 | ‘ I was working in the shop one day in 1979 when Ted Perry came in and announced ‘ I 'm starting a new label ’ . |
| 16 | Like the lady who came into the shop one day and asked for a bottle of ‘ blue ’ . |
| 17 | School-children were forced to witness the murder of their teachers and , on one particularly macabre occasion , pupils at a rural primary school entered the classroom one day to find their teacher 's head on the front desk . |
| 18 | The serious item of news situ at the moment one day . |
| 19 | Strangely enough , it did n't occur to me as being odd until I saw my mother frantically spraying the room one day . |
| 20 | But I do n't mind telling young Mike here about it seeing he 'll be joining me in the business one day . ’ |
| 21 | She wondered why he did n't step across it ; he reminded her of the white mice they had let out of the cage one day . |
| 22 | During the summer of 1975 I visited the station one day when we had nothing particular to do , with two friends . |
| 23 | Coincidence or whatever , in the newspaper one day the following week , there was an advertisement for an art history teacher at a boys ' public school ( that 's a private one in this country ) in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | I do n't know , I was just sitting on the grass one day , down by the river . |
| 25 | She must 've sneaked into the pantry one day when nobody was looking and taken a bite out of that jelly . |
| 26 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 27 | Who knows , if the Gauguins were left on the island one day they might be worth — ’ I drew a breath — ‘ twenty or even thirty thousand each ? ’ |
| 28 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 29 | But she made a point of going down to the jetty one day to tell him , ‘ I 'm really glad you found your boat . ’ |
| 30 | Er he attended to me and I should n't have done but I looked at my notes at th bottom of the bed one day and it said , Interference denied . |