Example sentences of "time [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they entered the house one of the brothers reached for the bottle of whiskey and poured four large glasses for the first time that day . |
| 2 | Marie asked Gazzer for the second time that day . |
| 3 | For the third time that day he called Kuhlmann from the public box . |
| 4 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 5 | For the second time that day , Corbett was shaken awake , an insistent voice calling his name . |
| 6 | Sister Paul would pretend not to see me as I hung about outside around the staffroom to see her pass by for the third time that day . |
| 7 | Eddie was airborne for the third time that day , returning his friends to Blackpool . |
| 8 | She was beside herself , shouting at the top of her voice for the second time that day . |
| 9 | It would be really rather nice , she thought as she picked up her cases for the fiftieth time that day , if they could all stay together , though it was hardly likely . |
| 10 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |
| 11 | And for the second time that day , the bride vowed : ‘ I will ! ’ |
| 12 | He urged his horse on home , and for the first time that day it responded by breaking into a trot for a few yards , until it decided that it was more comfortable to walk . |
| 13 | She said , ‘ I expect it 'll be something you 'll remember and treasure for the rest of your lives , ’ and Carrie was pleased because she sounded like herself for the first time that day . |
| 14 | I was beginning to understand a lot I 'd never known about before , and for the first time that day Toby 's fatal unthinking words came back to me : " One day she 'll have a baby without ever having understood what love really means . " |
| 15 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 16 | He opened the letter , saw the name at the bottom , and smiled for the first time that day . |
| 17 | Not for the first time that day , the Doctor was to be proved wrong . |
| 18 | The dullness she had felt in her exhaustion became a kind of sickness now , as for the second time that day she once again flew from her own body and split into two . |
| 19 | For the second time that day she went to the canteen . |
| 20 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 21 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 22 | John Major shaved carefully for the second time that day . |
| 23 | For the first time that day , he felt the ache of loss , and without real reason . |
| 24 | For the second time that day , his sovereign had assured him that he was the only man to lead the country through the crisis and had asked him to reconsider his resignation . |
| 25 | For the second time that day I scrambled down the slope of the hill towards the sad little car . |
| 26 | Ms Sultana , 34 , met her husband for the first time that day . |
| 27 | The coroner bawled at the porter to follow them and , for the second time that day , Athelstan heard the confession of a man about to meet Death . |
| 28 | Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day . |
| 29 | so that day at erm , it was two weeks ' time that day erm tt , think is on er Robocop |
| 30 | We expend endless energy and an awful lot of time each day in pre-empting criticism ; in censoring our speech and our behaviour , checking our appearance , taking up less room , making ourselves invisible , smiling at the request of total strangers , feigning pleasure when we feel none — being good girls rather than real women . |