Example sentences of "day it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before . |
| 2 | The name stuck and by the end of the day it seemed to Murray that every child in the school covertly sniggered ‘ Toady ’ as he passed . |
| 3 | The next day it seemed as if everyone in the school knew . |
| 4 | Since our silver wedding anniversary was the following day it seemed an ideal way to celebrate , so my wife and I decided to go . |
| 5 | Reflecting on his day out against Dublin he said : ‘ That day it seemed I could do no wrong . |
| 6 | Until one day it went away . |
| 7 | And I remember the day it went from Extended Titling to three three four and it was just three three four , it did n't look as if it had ever been intended to set these lines . |
| 8 | During the day it came again , the shadows falling off the walls . |
| 9 | Police blockades forced them to proceed on foot , and as the march approached the border the following day it came under fire from the security forces . |
| 10 | The ratings for the drama starring Sean Bean as Mucky Mellors and Joely Richardson as Lady C. have soared , electricity bosses report a surge in power when the nation tunes in and people who have viewed their video recorder with fear and suspicion since the day it came out of the polystyrene box have discovered the freeze frame feature overnight . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So when he says no plan here , so it 's not only no plans in the day it filtered through |
| 13 | On the following day it took the Goodyear Trophy at 206 mph , flown by Hall , it took the next two races , again cruising round the course . |
| 14 | One day it took us a day and a half to get it back again . |
| 15 | In the paper the other day it said that Leeds were interested in one of the goalkeepers from the lower divisions — Beresford ( from Burnley , I think ) . |
| 16 | On saturday night on Manc of the day it said that leeds were still at 3–1 … |
| 17 | It was not , I may say , for want of trying , but in my day it eluded me . |
| 18 | Although Kerrey 's campaign was lifted by this success , on the following day it suffered a setback when it was revealed that a restaurant chain of which he was part-owner had been fined $64,000 for 116 violations of child protection laws . |
| 19 | ‘ Then one day it dawned on me that I was running scared and it was silly . |
| 20 | Stimulus-response ( S-R ) psychology has largely gone out of fashion now , yet in its day it carried the field , and even now its influence is still felt . |
| 21 | ‘ A year to the day it lasted . |
| 22 | And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry . |
| 23 | Until midnight on polling day it looked like a hung parliament . |
| 24 | In the papers the next day it looked as if the funeral parlour heads were sanctioning the transfer of power , as if they were acknowledging Creed 's pre-eminence , as if they were paying homage . |
| 25 | by with the other day it looked clean . |
| 26 | The following day it froze as icy winds swept the country . |
| 27 | Only the bobbing ice raft felt safe , and every day it grew smaller as the waves grew warmer under a sun which rose a blazing orange and filled the sky with streaks of scarlet and gold . |
| 28 | The objective of this special orientation , and similar arrangements in several other Mesoamerican cities , were the points on the horizon where the Sun rose and set on the day it passed directly overhead . |
| 29 | The Federal Assembly proposed minimum conditions for the continuation of a joint state on Nov. 5 , and on the following day it passed a bill detailing procedures for holding a referendum . |
| 30 | Earlier in the day it had been raining , now there was a high wind blowing . |