Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , after a further round of talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 28 , he left for Moscow the following day , his only apparent success being the Iraqi agreement to allow the return in the coming weeks of some 1,000 Soviet nationals who had been working in Iraq . |
| 2 | I left Valladolid for Salamanca the next day . |
| 3 | In view of the grave nature of the crime he appeared in Inveraray before Mr John Campbell and a jury for sentence the next day . |
| 4 | It 's funny , I thought about sweeteners the other day , I think it 's just as bad as sugar , I think . |
| 5 | On that second and final dinner of the conference — most guests were expected to disperse after lunch the following day — the company had lost much of the reserve that had been noticeable throughout the previous days . |
| 6 | Now she left with plastic bags full of washing and returned after lunch the next day with Hugh 's shirts , Molly 's dresses and the children 's T-shirts and jeans beautifully ironed . |
| 7 | The unification of the Yemen Arab Republic ( North Yemen , with its capital at San'aa ) and the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( South Yemen , with its capital at Aden ) was proclaimed at midday on May 22 , after ratification the previous day by both parliaments . |
| 8 | Since the urgent call to his small London house just after dawn the previous day , he had not stopped working . |
| 9 | As Endill was walking back to his dormitory after lessons the next day he heard a faint ticking at the end of the main corridor . |
| 10 | After breakfast the next day , someone knocked at the front door . |
| 11 | If this happens at night , go to ground , shelter yourself as best you can and go looking for help the next day unless you 're likely to freeze to death in the meantime . |
| 12 | ‘ I usually take no notice and just turn up for work the following day . |
| 13 | Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’ |
| 14 | We was on about rats the other day at work cos Jackie was saying on her way cos her husband works in ooh God ! |
| 15 | Mind you , mind you I went er through Newark the other day and I had to go round the mountains to get back on that road out to Lincoln . |
| 16 | Pope John 's message to heads of state — broadcast on Vatican Radio on 25 October — made the front page of Pravda the next day under the banner headline : ‘ We beg all rulers not to be deaf to the cry of humanity ’ . |
| 17 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 18 | As reported on June 6 , the RPF had succeeded in capturing the town of Biumba the previous day but failed to hold it ; the official death toll was 24 rebels and three government soldiers killed . |
| 19 | They failed to make anything like the sort of headway the following day when they met the Wallabies in the rain at Newlands . |
| 20 | cos it the frost it was like a lump of ice the other day |
| 21 | They found themselves terribly short of officers the other day so they practically had to promote me . ’ |
| 22 | till yeah , crazy , well look at the erm , the price of sugar the other day you were talking about that , what was it , fifty odd P ? |
| 23 | For quite a lot of people the last day of October was going to be a very rough day indeed . |
| 24 | But the sun tugged her out of bed the next day and there was the butterfly , still fluttering . |
| 25 | Poindexter remembered that Casey invited himself , that they ate sandwiches , and that they discussed what Casey had said in his briefing of Congress the previous day . |
| 26 | A hijacked 8,000-ton freighter Vlore entered the Italian port of Bari the next day , defying Italian naval patrols , with approximately 10,000 destitute people aboard . |
| 27 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin arrived in Sofia on Aug. 3 as the guest of President Zhelyu Zhelev , with whom he held a first round of talks the same day , signing a 10-year treaty of friendship and cooperation before leaving on Aug. 4 . |
| 28 | I asked him what he thought of Magritte the other day , and he thought I was talking about some girl in first year . |
| 29 | The Russian Supreme Soviet overturned the declaration of the state of emergency the following day , ordering instead a weapons blockade ( although the republic was already well-armed ) . |
| 30 | The markka , which had been pegged to the European currency unit ( ECU ) in June [ see p. 38297 ] , had been allowed to float temporarily by the Bank of Finland the previous day , after speculative pressure had caused short-term interest rates to rise to 30 per cent and resulted in a heavy capital outflow . |