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Example sentences of "one day i [vb past] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day .
2	One day I received a note from the Indian High Commissioner saying that a press cable had been delivered to him which was obviously meant for me , and he therefore sent it on .
3	One day I received a letter which made my heart beat fast .
4	One day I overheard my mother speaking to a friend , or rather to an acquaintance , since she was clearly deemed worthy only of instant or cliche speech .
5	One day I took the opportunity of asking Mrs Fairfax a few questions about Mr Rochester , as I was curious about him , and the little housekeeper seemed happy to talk .
6	One day I took the beasts hunting and they raised a big fat buck .
7	When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again .
8	One day I spent a whole morning preparing snails .
9	One friend of mine — I had n't seen him in a while , then one day I met him in school with my head covered , and he said : ‘ Yasmin , have you gone religious ? ’
10	Then one day I discovered that he was borrowing them to show off at his dinners and returning them the next morning .
11	One day I came home from training and Mum asked , ‘ How much do they pay you for all this running ? ’
12	One day I came home and she was packing .
13	‘ And one day I came across this tiny cottage .
14	One day I went to the swimming pool which had been closed earlier in the year after a near miss by a Tomahawk missile .
15	They were just , it was just a one day I went round there shopping and they had , and I bought some beige ones for the kitchen .
16	And er one day I went up there and er erm in there for for over two hours right , and who 's the the P A er used to be er .
17	When I went over to the lake one day I spotted a seagull in distress .
18	And then one day I got a letter from Miss Wooler 's school .
19	Well , one day I got arrested .
20	And , and one day I got u up once .
21	I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world
22	As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah .
23	He recalled , ‘ I was under the pressure of being a family man with a daughter , and one day I accepted a job to act in a movie in the day-time and was writing another movie at night .
24	One day I chanced upon a chubby black and white brute molesting a helpless young sparrow and rushed to the rescue .
25	One day I had an argument with the forelady .
26	I used to call him Pear , and one day I had this tattoo done .
27	One day I had one of the prototype JS1s ; it was an ash body and that did n't work out too well when we were looking for woods .
28	Anyway , one day I had tickets to see Mike Oldfield and I was really upset because we had these gigs and so I had to sell them .
29	One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste .
30	Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ?