Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Er , we met the other day . |
| 2 | The Civil Aviation Committee met the next day and challenged two parts of the draft agreement that the Americans had inserted : the right of civil aircraft to use the US-leased bases in the Caribbean and Atlantic , and the right of US airlines to ‘ change gauge ’ in Britain , that is , switch to smaller aircraft for flights going on as part of the fifth freedom . |
| 3 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 4 | Whether you can only spare the occasional day or are prepared to help on a regular basis , Chapter 12 , Voluntary Work , lists a fund of suggestions you might like to consider . |
| 5 | this geezer from Bedlam yeah got stopped the other day in this car yeah , he was pissed , he was tripping and he was speeding yeah , no M O T , no licence , no tax , no ruddy insurance yeah |
| 6 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 7 | In spite of the cold ( the temperature was about 30 F below zero ) our tracking of the wanted man continued throughout that night , and he was captured , as he slept , by Doherty in an unused farm building the following day . |
| 8 | The national executive committee agreed the following day that an electoral conference would be held on July 18 . |
| 9 | Opposition parties boycotted the first day of the budget session of the Lok Sabha on Feb. 21 , and two state governors were replaced earlier in the month , in connection with the decision to impose president 's rule in Tamil Nadu in late January [ see p. 37964 ] . |
| 10 | She was planning to go the next day . |
| 11 | Miraculously , her mind had n't altered the next day , as it often does . |
| 12 | GIVEN that the most decisive factor in the Lincoln Handicap has traditionally been the draw — made the previous day — it seems odd that trainers have a fetish for ‘ laying a horse out ’ for it months in advance . |
| 13 | On Dec. 6 the Ukrainian parliament voted not to sign any Union Treaty with the Soviet Union , following a declaration made the previous day that the 1922 Treaty creating the Soviet Union , and any further Soviet constitutional treaties , were null and void in relation to Ukraine . |
| 14 | He reiterated his call , made the previous day , for government , opposition , regional , industrial and trade union leaders to hold talks on a " solidarity pact " to finance the growing cost of unification . |
| 15 | It made the previous days seem like shallow , callow girls , all light and bright and ordinary . |
| 16 | Toney made the last day and the final two rounds , and I was on my way . |
| 17 | I was most comfortable using the previous day 's shuffle but with an added stoop . |
| 18 | and er I was watching it when it was raining the other day , you could see the rain dripping off the wood rather than soaking into it so it 's done something . |
| 19 | It 's just and it 's so , it 's like it was raining the other day when we went to go out and just could not be bothered . |
| 20 | The support given the previous day to German neo-Nazis in two regional elections there was the starting point for his attack on PR ; a first-past-the-post system and stringent policies on asylum and immigration were preventing an extreme-right emergence in Britain , so he argued . |
| 21 | 30 June 1989 found most of the battalion not on guard in bearskins and tunics , but enjoying the last day of a fortnight 's shooting on the ranges at Salisbury Plain , on ISAAC . |
| 22 | Phoning the next day quoting my reference number to say the flight would not go ahead due to a change of circumstances , a long delay ensued . |
| 23 | Cassette tapes and rolls of film had to be posted the following day in envelopes that were tough enough not to burst and yet could be easily opened by customs officials . |
| 24 | Galloping the previous day had reinforced the expectation of doing it again . |
| 25 | Angelina 's voice made him jump and he forgot all about Pretty Polly , and all about his chances of sneaking away from the Canterbury trip tomorrow to see the second day of the Kent versus Australia match . |
| 26 | What did she go to see the other day that she reckon was a load of rubbish ? |
| 27 | The 1990s are likely to see the last days of the political baronets . |
| 28 | Granted his education and career it is not surprising that Sidonius , both in his panegyrics and also in his letter-collection , was able to see the last days of the imperial court within a traditional perspective . |
| 29 | Pick the mildest day you can and make sure you have everything to hand before you start so you do n't leave a dripping horse standing there while you hunt for the shampoo . |
| 30 | She made no reference to either Dieter 's recall or the coming week of golf in Antibes ; instead , in response to a question from Melissa , she gave an account of her visit to the sports centre the previous day and then encouraged Rose to talk about her experiences in the world of son et lumière . |