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

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1 His mother , who had spent longer with him in the garden than usual that day , led him into the sitting room when they returned to the house .
2 ‘ No , ’ she laughed , ‘ it 's a bloody awful day !
3 Why , cos I got stuck there that 's why , it was a bloody awful day if you ask
4 Bank overdraft Flexible borrowing up to a certain ceiling for people with bank accounts , usually without security , and paid off over a few months , but can be extended over several years ; interest , calculated each day on how much the account is overdrawn that day , fluctuates in line with bank base rates ( usually about two per cent higher ) .
5 ‘ He told me he had been very upset that day .
6 Well , if I knew that , Mr Barnes , I 'd know what it was that was n't right that day , would n't I ? ’
7 What had not been right that day ?
8 A beautiful crop by Stephen Way , a member of the prestigious 365 Day Hairdressing organisation .
9 Mourning was scarcely possible that day : practicalities supervened .
10 And much though I appreciate your relentless exhumation of the world 's injustices month by month , I find myself hankering after the wacky old days .
11 In an historic few days , Australian Rugby sanctions against South Africa were lifted , an invitation for the Wallabies to tour the Republic in August was issued and accepted and the heavyweight unions from Australia , New Zealand , South Africa and Argentina agreed to combine their collective muscle and form the Southern Hemisphere Rugby Alliance .
12 It 's been a very trying few days .
13 And spokesman Trevor East admitted : ‘ It 's been a trying few days for us and we are very disappointed to miss out again .
14 Considering that so many gliders are flown across country on every possible soaring day , the accident rate for gliding is extremely low .
15 The covenant was not just an important past event preserved by tradition but was the theme of what Gunnell calls ‘ a communal drama played out between Yahweh — He who will be there — and His people in time ’ , for in the words of Deuteronomy 5 : 3 , ‘ The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers , but with us , even us , who are all of us here alive this day . ’
16 Warships , pleasure boats , container ships — Britain 's royal yacht Britannia was due some days later — all saving themselves 8,000 miles and three weeks of sailing round the Horn .
17 As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay .
18 It took an historic 53 days to get the Bill through Committee , under the expert chairmanship of my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton ( Mr. Hamilton ) , who was present on the Front Bench today .
19 What you eat should be real , whole , live and fresh that day .
20 The tea was hot , and the sandwiches , filled with sliced ham , were made of crusty bread , fresh that day .
21 In a strategic alliance with Hewlett-Packard Co , CA will bundle its systems management software , CA-Unicenter on all HP Unix systems running HP-UX , with a free 120 day site licence .
22 The Meadow Park is lively each day with football players " .
23 Well it , it was n't funny that day before I went to the that ear
24 Do n't know what went wrong that day . ’
25 I know , he might still come in and collect it on Wednesday , but you can just say that you left it home because we do n't have English that day now .
26 Scotch beef comes from Smithfield Market , fresh each day , boned and minced .
27 Women and Beauty in April nineteen forty three wrote - there is a special kind of beauty preparation that ca n't be bought in a single shop in the world because you must make it yourself from spirit , heart and simple courage and you make it fresh each day .
28 The results of this policy are clear each day on Radio and Television : correspondents have more outlets for their wares — we can cover a wider range of stories — and we can spare people to work off rota on stories that will break new fresh ground .
29 I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture .
30 Less old each day , less coarsened by beliefs ?
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