Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 31 | At least 54 other party supporters , including several members of parliament , were injured , but it was a far less bloody day than authorities had feared it might be . |
| 32 | We did n't hang around for as long that day — we must rigged the boats ( with a little help ) and prepared to set off . |
| 33 | He travelled strongly and jumped fluently that day , and looks sure to develop into one of the season 's top novices . |
| 34 | This was done , accordingly ; the two sisters spent some hours together each day in the schoolroom , neither making any complaint . |
| 35 | We serve light lunches , including dishes suitable for vegetarians , from noon to 2pm each day . |
| 36 | An imperial ambassador who in 1622 spent only eleven days in London and achieved nothing of significance nevertheless received a present worth £1,600 on his departure . |
| 37 | No , mind you it might be so , so long each day |
| 38 | With only eight days to go until the opening of Seville 's World Fair , workmen are putting the finishing touches to the site . |
| 39 | It admitted that the protest had been " disappointing " but noted that the movement was still only eight days old and people were " very shy " of the police . |
| 40 | THE ROW over the closure of Strathclyde outdoor centres worsened yesterday when an education official admitted that teachers at one centre had been given only eight days ' warning that they faced losing their posts . |
| 41 | The news was greeted with astonishment by Christopher Mason , leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrat group : ‘ It 's extraordinary that a ‘ caring , sharing ’ council told its employees only eight days ago that they would be offered redundancy or redeployment . ’ |
| 42 | His release came only eight days after another American hostage , Robert Polehill was set free . |
| 43 | She felt certain then that whether Naylor called her back to the new extension to tell her to deny that she was engaged to him or not , she would without fail , before five o'clock that day , be summoned to account for Travis 's unexpected easy acceptance of her getting engaged to someone else . |
| 44 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 45 | Moreover , this particular photograph had been brought to the lab only that day , and no one had ever coupled it with any sort of training . |
| 46 | I should have told you , the night I met you on Starr Hills ; but I 'd only that day realized and I was afraid who might be listening . |
| 47 | It 's only odd days , it 's it 's perhaps lovely there in the winter when it 's snowing and things |
| 48 | Well getting a better , a little bit better each day . |
| 49 | From the Half Moon Battery you can see — and hear ! — the time gun fired at one o'clock each day . |
| 50 | At the top of the tower the time-ball falls at one o'clock each day — originally intended as a signal to ships in the Firth of Forth . |
| 51 | Do n't you find , about five o'clock each day , that you 've got a polite smile permanently creased into your face , like rigor mortis ? ’ |
| 52 | It was something that Harriet had particularly noticed and which made her both angry yet hopeful : angry that her daughter could not or would not always behave in such a way and hopeful that perhaps some day Liza would come to her senses and throw off the mask of invalidism behind which Harriet felt sure she was hiding . |
| 53 | Uniformly excellent , especially Some Day my Prince will come . |
| 54 | It 's only another day . |
| 55 | On a dry but extremely windy day I never once felt cold as I sat on top of Red Screes for half an hour munching through my packed lunch . |
| 56 | It was an extremely windy day , and we had problems keeping them down . |
| 57 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 58 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 59 | And then the questions which had arisen so few days ago arose unbidden , and this time , instead of forcing them away , he forced himself to face them — and the principal question of course was , just who was his father ? |
| 60 | PAMELA : O what happiness am I sunk fro and in so few days too . |