Example sentences of "[v-ing] to the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or as time travellers returning to the present day from the future . |
| 2 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 3 | Ex exactly the same as going to the present day . |
| 4 | So look where 's he going to the next day ? |
| 5 | Jack shook off his dream about Death Row and remembered that all over Dublin today there would be people waking to the first day of term . |
| 6 | Silver became the most popular , surviving to the present day , in a minor capacity , as a drawing tool . |
| 7 | Medieval historians followed the scheme devised by St Augustine for dividing world history into six ages corresponding to the six days of Creation described at the beginning of Genesis . |
| 8 | However , as Fillmore ( 1975 ) notes , these have two kinds of referent : they can either refer to the entire span itself , as in ( 56 ) , or to a point within the relevant span , as in ( 57 ) : ( 56 ) Tomorrow is Wednesday ( 57 ) Dennis hit Murphy with a baseball bat yesterday Note that the deictic words yesterday , today and tomorrow pre-empt the calendrical or absolute ways of referring to the relevant days . |