Example sentences of "day [pers pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And " Here also the Bridge under which on many a Sabbath day I witnessed the Baptists performing the Sacred rite of dipping in the river . " |
| 2 | And " Here also the Bridge under which on many a Sabbath day I witnessed the Baptists performing the Sacred rite of dipping in the river . " |
| 3 | At the end of the day I had the satisfaction of presiding in the Lords debate on the Bill and noting the very last words in Barbara Castle 's account of the affair : ‘ Now , unexpectedly , I have received a letter of ‘ appreciation ’ from Harold for the ‘ hard work and long hours ’ I have put in over the consultants ' ‘ package ’ . |
| 4 | Enlightenment was urged on me the day I saw the old Jew float to the surface of the deep latrine , how he splashed and struggled into life , and was hoisted out by the jubilant guards , his clothes cleansed by the mire . |
| 5 | Every day I passed the weathered statue of Henry VI in the middle of School Yard . |
| 6 | He said ’ I believe at the end of the day I made the wrong decision ’ . |
| 7 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 8 | One day I asked the teacher if it would n't be more patriotic to knit some items in red , white and blue . |
| 9 | On the day I went the team comprised two practising barristers , a QC who is a Recorder of the Crown Court and a Circuit judge . |
| 10 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 11 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
| 12 | One day I took the opportunity of asking Mrs Fairfax a few questions about Mr Rochester , as I was curious about him , and the little housekeeper seemed happy to talk . |
| 13 | One day I took the beasts hunting and they raised a big fat buck . |
| 14 | Each day I met the furnace of her hate . |
| 15 | The results of those studies were published on 25 September , and on the same day I announced the start of a three-month public consultation period during which interested parties could make written representations to me on the contents of the reports produced by Hydrotechnica . |
| 16 | I hesitate to correct the hon. Gentleman 's pronunciation , but in my day I fought the constituency of Islwyn which is now represented by the Leader of the Opposition , and I can tell him that it is pronounced ’ Issloin ’ . |
| 17 | I clearly remember the day I heard the call of Jesus to leave my secular employment . |
| 18 | Arrived at my chambers , I reviewed it over a pipe and the next day I wrote the first chapter . |
| 19 | Throughout the day I left the cottage door open . |
| 20 | Another day I observed the antics of a sea bird who had found a small crab in one of those rock pools on the beach below the house . |
| 21 | On the day I hit the big Four-O , the fog suddenly lifted and I celebrated non-stop . |
| 22 | My sister — the one just younger than me — and I used to share all the jobs in the house — if she washed up one day I did the drying up and so on , but when my grandad came to live with us , he thought the world of her so he did all her jobs , and she 'd come to me and taunt me , and that used to incense me . |
| 23 | There were no such thrills the day I visited the set of Dancing . |
| 24 | On the day I visited the McLennan Galleries in Glasgow her piece was surrounded . |
| 25 | On the day I fished the Tarn , however , a long summer heatwave and a freak wind had brought algae up from the lake bottom so that they hung ill suspension , turning the lake the colour of pea soup . |
| 26 | then we got the new front door so only Betty now has got er , a spare backdoor key which was n't much good the day I bolted the door into the kitchen ! |
| 27 | Well , one day I opened the door expecting a customer and there were three strangers . |
| 28 | The other day I bought the enchanting ASV CD of clarinet Concertos by played by Emma Johnson and read the notes only as an afterthought this morning , having already listened to the disc several times . |
| 29 | Day after day I watched the three people . |
| 30 | So it was a case there , and course at the end of the day you rolled the little roll up , put elastic round and stood them up in a file and they stood there like little soldiers and you could always go back to the actual time , sometimes you found a man had n't re erm signed on , he 'd just gone and joined his bus up in town centre , well you , that was er subject of another letter . |