Example sentences of "day and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , and I do n't want to go on about this , I was a lonely person in those days and I had very little else to think about . |
| 2 | Nearly every farmer had a barrel of the stuff in his cow house in those days and I had only to go into the corner and turn the tap . |
| 3 | I 'd been meaning to do it for days and I keep asking myself whether it was my fault her killer got in . ’ |
| 4 | The boy was back in three days and I knew by his face he had momentous news . |
| 5 | Traffic was light in those days and I explored South Wiltshire — in fact the whole area some fifteen miles around Salisbury . |
| 6 | I 'd been out the army about three days and I went to this dance with some army mates . |
| 7 | ‘ I said ten days and I meant it . |
| 8 | It was in its infancy in those days and I noticed that whenever David did a show for them , they dressed the set with every conceivable brightly coloured object , with the result you could hardly see him . |
| 9 | I ought to be home in three days and I 've made a deal with Henry . |
| 10 | I feel like Judas , but there 's a way out ; not with any honour , perhaps , but I 've looked at myself pretty closely over the last few days and I 've had to admit to myself that I 'm not quite as wonderful a guy as I liked to think I was . |
| 11 | It 's alright for a couple of days and I have had a couple of days er peace and quiet , and then er I do n't like it any more after that . |
| 12 | As he prepared for tomorrow night 's away game at Leicester , caretaker manager Malcolm Crosby , said : ‘ We have to play 10 matches in 25 days and I think even Arnold Schwarzenegger would struggle to do that . |
| 13 | I think erm you 've got to say that it is not easy to find people to give the commitment to local government work these days and I think a partial remuneration of the expense that they incur is a very reasonable thing for the public to have to meet . |
| 14 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 15 | No , I know , well I mean what is there for young people to look forward to these days and I feel really sorry for them and I mean all I hope is that Jenny will get a job |
| 16 | Of course , being in the army , he may get posted abroad one of these days and I do n't know if I want to leave London — it 's such jolly good fun now I 'm out . |
| 17 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 18 | Then when she was going out the next day and I made no attempt to open it , she said ‘ Where 's yer manners ? ‘ |
| 19 | But I went back there just the other day and I noticed the ground is starting to hump up again . ’ |
| 20 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 21 | I 'd been to work all day and I 'd been and been running sheets off all night . |
| 22 | Well we were taken up to the standby boat which is I mean every vessel in the North Sea , every rig and installation has a boat that circles it , non stop , twenty four hours a day and I mean that The standby boat on Piper I mean it was the the two inflatable boats off it that picked everybody up , and most folk up , and one of them was lost , they lost two of the crew off that . |
| 23 | I went down there one day and I says where is he ? got him she 's giving him some cake and milk . |
| 24 | " I m sorry , Mr Beamish , but he 'll be away all day and I thought I 'd better come along rather than leave it till tomorrow . " |
| 25 | He hinted to me the week before the event that he would n't mind a rest one day and I thought about that and thought about it again when we got to The Belfry . |
| 26 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
| 27 | I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask . |
| 28 | I came along here the other day and I thought oh heck , if you were living in actually |
| 29 | and said can I have some money for me tonight , I said well I was gon na get a cheque out the Abbey National , he said oh no he said work day to day and I thought oh |
| 30 | I looked in my the other day and I thought I thought now I have n't got it now . |