Example sentences of "day i [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , these days I 'm concentrating on passing my motorcycle test — a complex business , even if you have been driving a car on and sometimes off the road for nigh on 20 less than accident-free years . |
| 2 | In those days I was known as ‘ Horse ’ because it was said that I galloped , so the cries from team-mates Mike Powell and Ossie Cham were ‘ Come on , Horse ! ’ |
| 3 | Terry and I were worst hit and for a couple of days I was left off the chain so that I could use the toilet whenever I needed . |
| 4 | I could n't cope with never knowing what days I was going to be there — you had to wait till the rota was up to see which days you 'd be working … |
| 5 | ‘ But all that day and the next few days I was waiting for someone to come in . |
| 6 | Next day I am taken to Höfn to catch a plane back to Reykjavik , leaving the others to continue to Mÿvatn and the north . |
| 7 | Later on that day I was sent into the Corporals ' quarters with a mop and bucket and as I went in a Corporal came out buttoning his flies . |
| 8 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 9 | Becau Because I forgot That was the day I was thinking of having a proper lunch party but I wo n't do it if you 're going out . |
| 10 | Yet the other day I was listening to an eminent conductor whose Bruckner is often much praised reaching a triple forte long before what is to me self-evidently the work 's pivotal climax . |
| 11 | The next day I was chatting to friends — Joy and Alan Byne . |
| 12 | But shortly after , to my surprise , I saw the female and two kits peering out from one of the branch holes , surveying the river , and for the rest of the day I was treated to some amazing mink behaviour . |
| 13 | Next day I was thrashing along the Kingston bypass again . |
| 14 | One day I was sitting on the roof with Chola and Mina , shelling wild walnuts for oil . |
| 15 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ But one day I was sitting at home , doodling around the 12th fret and trying to figure out how I could play in a minor key without having to retune the guitar . |
| 17 | One day I was sitting in his room in Downing Street having a general discussion , when he suddenly said to me , ‘ Can you think of any good name for the next Honours List ? ’ |
| 18 | One day I was browsing through it in the shop . |
| 19 | One day I was browsing in the university library , when for no reason that I could pick upon I drew a biography of Newton from one of the shelves . |
| 20 | I think I will look back on this day and think , I really had quite a distressing haircut did n't I , but also that this was the first day I was introduced to the humour of Vic and Bob . |
| 21 | One day I was walking down Bedford Street in Belfast city centre and this bloke pulled over in his car and started tooting his horn . |
| 22 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 23 | Well if I know who they are and I do n't know where they come from I 'll just put who they are day I were talking to them and dash it . |
| 24 | ‘ One day I 'm going to be famous , too , ’ she vowed silently . |
| 25 | ‘ One day I 'm going to be a star . ’ |
| 26 | One day I 'm walking with her beside the river , and I 've got my arm round her shoulders , and she 's put her arm round my waist , and we laugh at everything , and stop every few yards to kiss , and think , this is fantastic ! |
| 27 | But next day I 'm coming along the High Street when I meet little Darius — you know him ? — and he says there 's two guys broke into my flat and they 're waiting for me . ’ |