Example sentences of "day he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day he asked her why she looked so sad . |
| 2 | This letter is going to be devoted to my affairs in connection with Edward … the other day he asked me if I thought you would care to go for a walk into the country somewhere . |
| 3 | He had been just too young for the Korean War , and one day he told me that it was one of the experiences he regretted having missed . |
| 4 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 5 | In a burst of confidence one day he told me that he was working out a new system of numerology , developed from a study of people whose lives have been well documented . |
| 6 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 7 | His hobby was breeding bees and one day he brought them in in a glass cabinet and he was saying , ‘ These are the workers and this is the queen bee , and they fly out of the window and come back with pollen and they make honey . ’ |
| 8 | I , m told that the day he brought it in — a good twenty years ago — he said that because his daughter was blind there was no point in its remaining in the cottage . |
| 9 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 10 | Marilyn Thompson was Charlie 's wife 's best friend ; Charlie was to be Jack 's best man and one day he thought he would be godfather to Jack 's first child . |
| 11 | The other day he thought he had seen Fedorov again — the real one , that was , whose identity he had taken — in a crowded street near the Stefansdom . |
| 12 | I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise . |
| 13 | In light of this , he expected no reward but this day he knew he had received one as he stood at the door of a ward of children on whom he had operated , now sleeping peacefully and painlessly . |
| 14 | But I was promoting a Neil Diamond concert and one day he got me up on stage during this tour , and introduced me to the audience . |
| 15 | On March 30th he implicitly called for the economy minister 's resignation , and the next day he got it . |
| 16 | One day he took me aside and left me with the designer , a nervous girl who always wore black . |
| 17 | He went to see her that day he took you to the airport . |
| 18 | Sure I d I mean the day he took us , took us all out for dinner |
| 19 | Greg had seen the posters around for some days , and on the evening before opening day he made it his business to pass by the warehouse and go in , for he was a paid-up member of the club , and lit seemed easy enough to fake a mistake about the members ' viewing day . |
| 20 | At the end of the day he employs us and if he insists , we shall have to go straight into fourth gear to prepare for it . |
| 21 | and then the next day he said he no longer loved me . |
| 22 | There is no need to tell everyone all the details , any more than Peter makes any mention or testimony in his letters about the day he messed it up . |
| 23 | Bobby , at No. 18 with Humpin' Around , says : ‘ When I was young I had a cute little collie dog , but one day he bit me real bad . |
| 24 | On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 . |
| 25 | Then looking at him again she said , ‘ He sometimes had a walking stick , and … and on that day he bought me a parasol . ’ |
| 26 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 27 | He had never regretted the day he welcomed her to UNACO . |
| 28 | And one day he shave it off , it took his wife three hours to notice and it took his mum all day to notice |
| 29 | One day he found her being rolled across canvas by two women in overalls . |
| 30 | That day he found it prudent to acquire the services of one Frederick James Ratcliff , a solicitor of Blagrave Street . |