Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] day " in BNC.

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31 On the five day courses participants will have a chance to try out hillwalking , river kayaking , Canadian canoeing and rock climbing .
32 Nigel donned his navy silk pyjamas and paisley dressing gown on the great day and prayed that nobody would be sick over him .
33 Described as a colourful character , with his shovel hat and official cloak , he met with an accident on the great day and was tipped from a cart .
34 Another unwritten law was that no fire was lit before dark , so the period of dusk on the great day seemed never ending .
35 Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes .
36 However I had no wish to disappoint everyone concerned by postponing by visit to the Palace and , with a lot of help from friends and family I finally made it to London on the great day albeit a shadow of my former self .
37 The botanical gardens are bare and there are few signs of the famous flower festival exhibitions in the cold grey wet transition between winter and spring : on the four days I was there it rained every day , finally removing the last traces of soot-encrusted snow from the pavements but leaving everything streaked with a post-winter dampness .
38 Yes , there were 300 or so other overs bowled on the four days of play permitted by the weather , with nine innings passing 50 , and even the extras in England 's innings passing the half-century .
39 Teachers have had to adapt to the need to allow their pupils this kind of responsibility and self-propulsion , and for those who have been accustomed to telling their pupils in detail how to defeat the examiners on the fateful day , this has been a great change .
40 When the victim returned on the fateful day , he had in the interim heard that the medal was on a list of stolen property .
41 The insects are only an annoyance on the rare days when there is n't a breeze blowing , and are more than compensated for by the wealth of bird life in the area And it is not only birds .
42 Anthony Scrivener QC , for Hammersmith and Fulham , was presenting the council 's case on the fifth day of a hearing in which the district auditor is seeking to have the transactions declared ultra vires , or beyond the local authority 's legal powers .
43 She rang in on the fifth day to say she was no better and did n't feel she was getting anywhere .
44 On the fifth day of mobilisation , Lieut-Colonel Deyns was able to report that the Field Ambulance was equipped according to scale , and ready to move .
45 Then on the fifth day , mid-morning , a pool of light as pale and clear as moonstone appeared on the horizon .
46 He had almost given up hope of meeting Liza on the beach and was considering whether he would , after all , call at Four Winds , despite Eleanor 's warnings , when , to his incredulous delight , on the fifth day of his visit , he saw a different figure scrambling down the cliff followed by a little girl .
47 On the fifth day , they married .
48 The fry hatch on the fifth day and about 3mm long .
49 On the fifth day the covers were removed and I saw a tiny fish swimming on the surface .
50 S.J. Snooke of South Africa , who led his side to defeat against England over his 29th birthday , Feb. 1 , 1910 , was the first overseas player to be able to offer birthday cake at the tea interval , but the first captain to five himself a victory as a birthday present was the Australian H.L. Collins , whose 36th birthday fell on the fifth day of the seven-day third Test against England in January 1925 , which Australia eventually won by 11 runs .
51 When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’
52 Prevalence of hypoxaemia , defined as arterial oxygen saturation <90% determined by pulse oximetry , and condition of patient on the fifth day after admission .
53 Like the other seven pupils , I would be given two one hour lessons , and then ½ hour on the fifth day .
54 On the fifth day , she was almost done .
55 This all-too brief period was over , and now on the fifth day after his return , the only partly healed Angel One was standing in the death arena , sword in hand , preparing to fight for his life .
56 Pauline Leyshon arrived to give evidence on the fifth day of the trial at Bristol Crown Court .
57 Fees for the Junior and Senior School are payable either by lump sum on or before 5th September 1992 , for which an advance payment allowance of 4 ½%; will be granted , or by ten monthly instalments on the fifth day of each month from September to June inclusive under Direct Debit Mandate .
58 It 's also good I think for , for cricket in general that he 's got a pitch that helps him a bit on the fifth day and that 's how it should be .
59 Now this agreement witnesseth that in consideration of the said John Weston Foakes paying to the said Julia Beer on the signing of this agreement the sum of £500 , the receipt whereof she doth hereby acknowledge in part satisfaction of the said judgment debt of £2,090 19s. , and on condition of his paying her or her executors , administrators , assigns or nominee the sum of £150 on the 1st day of July and the 1st day of January or within one calendar month after each of the said days respectively in every year until the whole of the said sum of £2,090 19s. shall have been fully paid and satisfied , the first of such payments to be made on the 1st day of July next , then she the said Julia Beer hereby undertakes and agrees that she , her executors , administrators or assigns , will not take any proceedings whatever on the said judgment .
60 Now this agreement witnesseth that in consideration of the said John Weston Foakes paying to the said Julia Beer on the signing of this agreement the sum of £500 , the receipt whereof she doth hereby acknowledge in part satisfaction of the said judgment debt of £2,090 19s. , and on condition of his paying her or her executors , administrators , assigns or nominee the sum of £150 on the 1st day of July and the 1st day of January or within one calendar month after each of the said days respectively in every year until the whole of the said sum of £2,090 19s. shall have been fully paid and satisfied , the first of such payments to be made on the 1st day of July next , then she the said Julia Beer hereby undertakes and agrees that she , her executors , administrators or assigns , will not take any proceedings whatever on the said judgment .
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