Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went home and visited my GP the next day , and he gave me calamine lotion . |
| 2 | Oh , on Radio one listening with my mum the other day . |
| 3 | Did you take my pound the other day ? |
| 4 | She 's forgiven me for being such an ass with my ultimatum the other day , ’ he added , then sighed , ‘ I do wish she was coming back to her flat . ’ |
| 5 | I said to my husband the other day ‘ Say something nice to me . |
| 6 | Aye it is a good one , yeah , it 's very similar as I was telling my friend the other day to what we had before |
| 7 | Cos I hurt my finger the other day . |
| 8 | They did do them in white , but they do n't seem to have them here , I only saw one pair , they were n't my size the other day . |
| 9 | But ask me about Boy George 's first time on the show — looking gorgeous in a dress , with make-up and ribbons through his dreadlock extensions — and I can still remember the fevered speculation about his ambiguous sexuality that gripped my school the next day . |
| 10 | Miss Abbott , when you came to my house the other day and wandered round my studio and let me see something of your thoughts , it was as if a gale had blown through all the dust and cobwebs , all the mouldering old habits that were growing up round me like ivy , and when you had gone , I tore that canvas off the easel and smashed it — ’ |
| 11 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 12 | I took my godson , Dominic Robinson , round my laboratory the other day , which is a physics laboratory , and he enjoyed it immensely and asked a number of questions , and was absolutely intrigued and fascinated by the various bits of wires and plugs and so on like that , and he asked me the sort of questions that I do n't think I would expect sometimes my undergraduates to ask . |
| 13 | On Aug. 5 Mobutu had threatened to suspended the conference following its decision the previous day to resume the use of the country 's name before 1971 , the Republic of Congo , and to adopt the country 's former flag , anthem and motto . |
| 14 | When the Queen came to visit her grandchild the following day her comment was typical . |
| 15 | — I caught her trying to brush her hair the other day . |
| 16 | ‘ Darling , ’ Arabella had said , ‘ You know that PR firm I did some work for ? I was talking with their boss the other day , and he said they were looking for new blood … ’ |
| 17 | Arrangements were carefully made so that Lunia would not be compromised and Modigliani came to paint her portrait the following day in the Sunny Hotel on the Boulevard de Port-Royal , the little lodging house where Zborowski was living with his handsome and somewhat forbidding common-law wife , Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska . |
| 18 | I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag . |
| 19 | It was quite natural for them to challenge Jesus , especially in view of his own challenge to their authority the previous day , when he ordered out of the Temple those who had permission to trade there ( Mark 11:15–18 ) . |
| 20 | but she liv I saw her Nan the other day and like her Nan , I do n't cos her Nan always invites me round . |
| 21 | Their encounter the previous day had proved to be somewhat tedious , her most thoughtful conversational gambits earning only strange , disconnected replies . |
| 22 | The double consignment of heroin had been secured , despite a surprise attack , albeit by one demented man , and Tiger Control in Chicago had taken delivery of their merchandise the previous day . |
| 23 | Go and tell Nirvanas , Nirvana slap her in her face the other day . |
| 24 | At Cambridge he acquired a reputation as a poet and became a friend of John Bulkeley , whose epic The Last Day ( 1717 , revised 1719 ) he edited . |
| 25 | She did not respond to this , but stared at him , until he spoke again , saying , ‘ I 'd have been along before now , but I heard about me father the very day when we last spoke , and so I had to go off straightaway to Newcastle . |
| 26 | The Sheriff said he would give them his decision the following day . |
| 27 | And when he he was told to bring in his car the next day and his company stock . |
| 28 | He 'll be fighting to keep his lead the next day , for this first full stage , a circuit through the Basque country , will be fast , tricky , and an especial challenge for the Spanish riders . |
| 29 | When Carco 's concierge came to clean his room the next day , she almost fainted at the sight of the nude picture hanging over his bed . |
| 30 | With his wife the other day . |