Example sentences of "but [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | But each day brings progress . |
| 2 | The rest of the week passed and each day the boy worked just as hard and just as long , but each day he produced less . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's got a real motor , but that day the engine fell out , ’ said the jockey . |
| 4 | He seldom lost his temper , but that day he was cross , rightly so , for fresh greenstuff at that time of the year is priceless . |
| 5 | But that day I was leaving the school gates with a group of boys when I saw Helen . |
| 6 | In their previous league match two weeks ago , they had travelled to Leicester knowing that a win would all but give them the championship , but that day they slumped to a surprise 3–2 defeat . |
| 7 | ‘ Normally , I would shoot through anything — but that day it rained and rained and there was nothing to be done about it , ’ Gerald says . |
| 8 | But that day Philip gained something more significant than temporary control of a couple of lordships . |
| 9 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
| 10 | But that day was awful . |
| 11 | ‘ I always walked the seven miles home , but that day the Old Man and Peter Revers came past in the car and offered me a lift . |
| 12 | She wore a great deal of make-up at all times , but that day , perhaps just as primitive man might have painted his face as a protection , she was garnished with particularly bright eye colours and lipstick , so that it was a little garish mask staring at the two policemen . |
| 13 | The honourary medical officer of the Longhope lifeboat is Dr Tony , and he would normally be assisting casualties to be uplifted , but that day he himself was to be winched up from the lifeboat to the helicopter , and once that part of the exercise was completed and he was back , safely on deck , I asked him , How was that ? |
| 14 | But that day , all of a sudden , you 'd never know we were hard up for business . |
| 15 | ‘ I have rebuilt my life , but that day is very special to me as were the 10 days I spent with my husband . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have rebuilt my life but that day is very special to me as were the 10 days I spent with my husband . ’ |
| 17 | But that day that that woman phoned up the house erm she said I 've been watching Neighbours or something |
| 18 | But eight days later he developed a blood clot and died . |
| 19 | I think he had an enjoyable but wet day . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe not soon , but some day . |
| 21 | But some day perhaps I 'll be able to tell you … ’ |
| 22 | But some day — some day I 'll travel , and meet people , and know things , and then I shall write a true book — a book of experience . ’ |
| 23 | I mean I I 'd love to see the the whole history and that 's why I 'm glad that erm you people are taking an interest now in not helping us but some day somebody saying who 's that crank who 's been talking on there . |
| 24 | ‘ I know I am only 20 , but some days I feel about 30 so much has happened to me . ’ |
| 25 | But some days later I realised the full truth of what had happened . |
| 26 | ‘ He looks better , it 's true , but some days he eats nothing at all , and other days he eats just like a healthy boy . |
| 27 | Mum always made a long list of groceries she needed but some days she bought even more things because there was so much to choose from . |
| 28 | ‘ She has borne the treatment well but some days does feel self-conscious . |
| 29 | But this day he was all action , stepping right up to Nick and thumping him hard . |
| 30 | Mona , two years younger , was the more likely to clash with him , but this day she agreed to be ruled by Maggie 's acquiescence . |