Example sentences of "one day and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We humans all know we are going to die one day and we act accordingly . |
| 2 | Helen got away for one day and they spent nine hours together in the open air . |
| 3 | Bill recalls a crew coming into the 149 line-hut after a sortie one day and they snagged the APU as being unserviceable on the Form 700 . |
| 4 | Mandy was telling us , you know , about one of her friends she erm her husband was very high up in a company and he went to work one day and they called him in the office and says right , you ai n't got a job ! |
| 5 | Well I remember Jackie telling me , she came back from sh she came up to meet me in London one day and she came up with the woman , a German woman , who at that time was a buyer for Army and Navy er women 's fashions and this woman said that the model girls who are so thin she said they 're always bursting into tears and crying because they 're under such stress to keep their weight down and their boyfriends do n't like it because the girls are are lovely to have on their arms to take out , you know everybody sort of goggles , you know , lovely slim girl with yellow half way down her back etc. but , in fact , these girls get very , very ratty ! |
| 6 | ‘ I showed a friend of mine round here one day and she said the most stunning difference was that the clients actually talked to each other . |
| 7 | Well , there were n't so many old people then when we came here we were classed as one of the oldest people because er they were all very young people and you were talking about Dame Leah Manning and she came to me one day and she said we 're going to have a problem on the town because it 's a very young town . |
| 8 | they are , she got the forms er but it did n't go and you 'd got to fill them in and then it happened with , but then suddenly she came home one day and she said oh she said I 've got a job |
| 9 | And then she went in one day and she knew she 'd had a thousand and said can I extend it ? |
| 10 | Cos I w he was , he was in the Post Office one day and he saw this old woman and she 'd just cashed all her giros and this bloke just nicked it in the Post Office . |
| 11 | But I walked in one day and he says , You 'd ge better bugger off home , he says , . |
| 12 | And of course he came here , he , and one day and he says , could I gi give this place as an address and I 'll get social security ? |
| 13 | Let's imagine somebody wonders in to John Major one day and he says you know , I 've a bit of a problem John . |
| 14 | Judge , old was executor he went there one day and he got her to sign her will |
| 15 | ‘ I remember pointing at it one day and he said , ‘ Well you have n't got one at all , yours is broken . ' ’ |
| 16 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 17 | But he s he met me on the road one day and he said to me , Miss , it would pay you to give a decent price for it , he said to me . |
| 18 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 19 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 20 | And he let them help in the shop ( Carrie loved that : measuring out things on the scales and giving the change ) until Nick stole some biscuits one day and he came in and caught him . |
| 21 | I got one , one day and he had a sackful — four stone of it . |
| 22 | They might have something one day and you cadge it off them , and you got something another day and they cadge it off you . |
| 23 | yeah , I 've done that Jane you sort of look one day and you think there 's hardly anything |
| 24 | Er he attended to me and I should n't have done but I looked at my notes at th bottom of the bed one day and it said , Interference denied . |
| 25 | Played me one day and it played Annabel one day . |
| 26 | I saw a wheelchair there one day and I know |
| 27 | No I walked through the children 's department one day and I saw this necklace with these beads hanging from it |
| 28 | I was having all that done one day and I heard one little girl say to another , ‘ Why do they keep doing her make-up ? ’ |
| 29 | Now er her husband came down one day and I said to him , what 's your name , and he said Mr |
| 30 | does , , he came in one day and I said that we really do n't travel a lot you know |