Example sentences of "this day [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It was a whirlwind affair ; I do n't think Paul knows to this day what hit him . ’
2 On this day we would come to the other end of the running spectrum , to the fastest men and women on earth whose triumphs would depend upon mere hundredths of a second in the 100 metres .
3 The Trinidad crashed near Madrid , and to this day we still do not know for sure what happened .
4 On this day we have both embraced a new beginning .
5 To all who attended this day we thank you for your good humour and co-operation under difficult circumstances .
6 Whereas on , on Saturdays it 's easier for supervisors to say okay well this day we 're gon na be doing
7 Lou was doubtless bemused by it all and is convinced to this day her son was not a homosexual at all — ‘ thank God he was nothing like that ’ , she says .
8 In keeping with the grand design , the sewers designed by Haussmann and his great engineer Belgrand were so magnificent that to this day they form part of the tourist 's Paris , for it is possible to cruise through these huge well-lighted caverns in a boat .
9 ‘ They must have found it , because it was gone the day after — probably straight into the oven because it was obvious it had been killed , not just died But to this day they do n't know how . ’
10 To this day they live on as a nomadic people wandering in the wildernesses of northern Ulthuan and ranging across Cothique , Tiranoc and Chrace in small , fierce bands .
11 To this day they live on as a nomadic people wandering in the wildernesses of northern Ulthuan and ranging across Cothique , Tiranoc and Chrace in small , fierce bands .
12 To this day they have unresolved arguments about the repatriation of prisoners-of-war , about the ownership of the Iraqi fighters that flew to shelter in Iran after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , and about the hostile groups each country harbours on its territory .
13 He found that although the rats in the third group made many errors until the eleventh day , upon reinforcement on this day they made almost no mistakes .
14 ‘ I ca n't remember to this day which one I wore but I remember being totally traumatized by it because it would show favouritism . ’
15 In those countries where it prevails , Marxist absolutism has led to the suppression of individuality to the point where dissent and criticism are crimes against the State and punishable by imprisonment or by internal exile , or madness to be treated in mental hospitals ; where art and science must conform to the State 's perception of their supportive purposes ; where the measure of morality is no longer ‘ what if this day thy soul is required of thee ? ’ but ‘ does it serve the system ? ’
16 Give us this day our free Big Mac
17 Our lord taught us to pray er er give us this day our daily bread but we all know when we 've read our commentaries that the word epusios means of tomorrow , give us today the bread of tomorrow .
18 GUIL : ( Low , wry rhetoric ) Give us this day our daily mask .
19 GUIL : ( Dying fall ) Five us this day our daily week …
20 GUIL : ( Coda ) give us this day our daily round …
21 GUIL : Give us this day our daily cue .
22 GUIL : ( Coda ) Call us this day our daily tune …
23 Our father who art in heaven hallowed be thine name , thy kingdom come , thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven , give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil , for thine is the kingdom , the power and the glory for ever and ever amen .
24 We use the words ‘ give us this day our daily bread ’ , and seldom say ‘ thank you ’ for the ways that we see answers to the prayer .
25 But even two apples a day may not keep Ciba-Geigy away and unless we act fast the prayer ‘ Give us this day our daily bread ’ could soon become a prayer to Shell Oil .
26 Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us .
27 Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us .
28 The tribal areas retain their status — which means that to this day there is no law and no democracy .
29 In the eighteenth century Drumcree , both the Church of Ireland parish and the Roman Catholic parish , included Portadown and to this day there is still no Roman Catholic parish of Portadown .
30 But numerous patronymics of later formation have lasted — Johnson , Jackson , Peterson , Lawson , FitzPayne — perhaps to a total of more than a hundred and fifty , and to this day there are useful studies to be carried out on the distribution patterns of such rarities as Mattimoe = relative of Matthew .
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