Example sentences of "day [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Each day there was a new sight and each day I was pushing the ability of these words to cope with my thoughts . |
| 32 | Then one day I thought I must . |
| 33 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 34 | One day I had an argument with the forelady . |
| 35 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 36 | The day I left Uganda my troubles started . |
| 37 | Now every minute of the day I miss him . |
| 38 | I am afraid that one day I 'll come to hate even my brothers and sisters . |
| 39 | He threatened me with this throughout the examination period and until the day I actually left home . |
| 40 | One day I 'll learn to swim real good , so I can go up to Scotland and show Marie and she 'd be real surprised . |
| 41 | And one day I will say that I saw Erika Nordern , say that I coached her . |
| 42 | All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes . |
| 43 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |
| 44 | Since that July day I have visited the City on numerous occasions … connected directly or indirectly to asking the City for help with fund-raising . |
| 45 | During the day I drink only mineral water , fresh fruit juice , coffee or tea . |
| 46 | Next day I moved to 40 Beaumont Street and began a vastly expensive career of alcohol . |
| 47 | Next day I drank all the morning from pub to pub . |
| 48 | Next day I lunched with Hugh [ Lygon ] and drank with him all afternoon and sallied out with him fighting drunk at tea-time when we drank at the New Reform until dinner . |
| 49 | Washbrook , the four-square and fearless warrior with the faded , jaunty-peaked , blue cap of both Lancashire and England , was 75 on Wednesday , the day I dared my many happy returns , and still as robust , hale and healthy as ever . |
| 50 | I do n't want to invest in anything where every day I have to worry whether my managers are going to leave me . ’ |
| 51 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 52 | When I am out all night , the next day I can not do anything . ’ |
| 53 | The other day I met a bloke |
| 54 | The next day I found out why . |
| 55 | I am not what one day I hope to be , |
| 56 | One day I walked out of the house , leaving all my possessions . |
| 57 | Reply : It was the day I passed my exam . |
| 58 | ‘ You 're very welcome to bring your friends home to tea — if it 's a day I do n't work . ’ |
| 59 | On that first brief visit I made up my mind that one day I would return there . |
| 60 | From the very first day I saw him I began writing poems to him that later grouped themselves into the sequence entitled ‘ Suite Salmantina ’ which , with other poems about Spain , forms the central part of my collection called The Prodigal Son : Poems 1956–1959 . |