Example sentences of "to [pos pn] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall remember that to my dying day , I shall remember it all my life . ’ |
| 2 | you go right through the tunnel and this Queen 's Drive was ooh , about a mile or two out of Liverpool so to get back to the tunnel you come down Upper Parliament Street , I 'll never forget to my dying day , and it was down hill and these traffic lights down the bottom should of been should of been , but they were n't operating , they were digging th |
| 3 | The reflection implied that this tract of wild land might have come from my own time , the epicentre of the disturbance , and so might be instrumental in restoring me to my own day ! |
| 4 | If Iran , weary and broke after its war with Iraq , has waved goodbye to its proselytising days , this is a valid reason for easing it out of its isolation and back to the position in Gulf politics which , from the shah on , it has craved and which reflects the size of its population and length of its coastline . |
| 5 | The project was first brought on stream three years ago , slowly building up to its present day output of 750m generating units . |
| 6 | She skipped in the stableyard and jumped up and down off orange boxes in the storeroom and occasionally thought back to her carefree days before Sylvester went mad on their behalf . |
| 7 | At home in London she rarely bothered with such irrelevances ; here she knew it was expected of her and accordingly she had showered , dumped her travel-weary jeans into the laundry basket from which they would be rescued by a maid , washed , ironed and returned to her next day , and dressed herself in a loose silk jersey jacket and pants suit , simple and easy enough to please her yet enough of a transformation to satisfy her father and Sally . |
| 8 | ‘ By Christ , that little bitch will regret this to her dyin' day ! ’ |
| 9 | When it came to her last day at home , she had gone out into the garden for a final look round . |
| 10 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 11 | There is a hint that the older people generally frowned on meetings between Edward and Helen similar to their innocent day at Horsmonden . |
| 12 | Certainly — she hoped — not Luke himself , and while her acquaintance with Florian Jones went back to their high-school days in South Africa , she knew he was impervious to anything that did not affect him directly . |
| 13 | As for the so-called foresters who jumped on the tax-avoidance bandwagon and ruined our moorlands , then I hope their consciences trouble them to their dying day . |
| 14 | Ledeen said he would remember ‘ to his dying day ’ these entertaining sorts of discussions , the search for a ‘ magical simultaneity ’ in horribly complex events : aircraft full of missiles entering Iranian airspace , money at that moment jumping by electronic transfer into the right account , hostages at that moment sprung from their prisons , ‘ and all kinds of things of this nature . |
| 15 | His Spanish ADC , General Alava , however , remembered to his dying day the way his heart sank on hearing his Commander cheerfully giving orders for ‘ cold meat at dawn ’ before a long day 's reconnaissance , or perhaps a day 's hunting in Portugal with his ‘ family ’ . |
| 16 | He embraced the moral grandeur of it with enthusiasm , and to his dying day aspired to nothing more than Indian membership of the British empire as an equal partner , regarding independence in isolation as a perhaps politically expedient but regrettable alternative . |
| 17 | That keeper of the flame , Sir Ralph Furse , to his dying day a believer in the administrative genius of his race , was advocating by 1942 that the territories of the coloured colonial empire be allowed ‘ to grow up into nations in free association with ourselves ’ . |
| 18 | It never again had quite the effect it did on that day when Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain was driven from the field , and , in truth , Gambo could n't quite remember that recipe to his dying day . |
| 19 | Shinwell believed to his dying day that it was he who had been the intended target of French 's bullet . |
| 20 | She said something to him that night … something he would remember to his dying day . |
| 21 | To his dying day the young Count would not forget the fair hand which had tended him when none other had heeded his plight . |
| 22 | He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him . |
| 23 | And recreation — held to his dying day . |
| 24 | He chose Everton over Arsenal and will regret that decision to his dying day . |
| 25 | If radical politics have provided one consistent thread in his career , cricket has been another — going back to his early days in Derbyshire when he played for Littleover in the Notts & Derby Border League and was taught to bowl legcutters by twice-capped county coach Denis Smith : ‘ I suppose I ultimately failed him because in my rebelliousness I refused to have a decent short haircut , ’ he recalls . |
| 26 | He also has a collection of Rentokil news letters going back to his early days which made for fascinating reading after dinner . |
| 27 | In looking back to his playing days , you can not think of him without Jim Shackleton . |
| 28 | If Pindar in the Thirteenth Olympian meant anything at all by saying that the Muses breathed sweetly over Corinth , he was not referring to his own day but perhaps to that of the Corinthian Arion who invented the dithyramb . |
| 29 | Mr Depardieu also delights in adding lurid colour to his teenage days on the streets of Châteauroux . |
| 30 | Up to his last days , he regularly walked his dogs , and was on the point of doing so on his usual route from his home — the oldest lived-in wooden house in London , built in 1483 — when he had his fatal fall . |