Example sentences of "day i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next day I am taken to Höfn to catch a plane back to Reykjavik , leaving the others to continue to Mÿvatn and the north . |
| 2 | But that day I was leaving the school gates with a group of boys when I saw Helen . |
| 3 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 4 | And while I 'm on , there 's another thing I 'll say : I regret the day I was made to marry him . |
| 5 | Later on that day I was sent into the Corporals ' quarters with a mop and bucket and as I went in a Corporal came out buttoning his flies . |
| 6 | Every day I was sent a secret report by the Chief of Police , and the next afternoon I was playing cards with Fritz when Sapt brought it in . |
| 7 | On the day I was born , Thomas Cook and Son 's were offering an all-in holiday on the Riviera for twenty-eight pounds and sixteen shillings : there were outrages in Ulster , and the Secretary of State for Air said that he saw no future for commercial aviation in Europe . |
| 8 | I never knew my mother because , as I explained , she died on the day I was born . |
| 9 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 10 | This suited me well and by 10am that day I was hoeing and raking the 60-foot square potato patch in preparation for the sowing . |
| 11 | Becau Because I forgot That was the day I was thinking of having a proper lunch party but I wo n't do it if you 're going out . |
| 12 | Each day there was a new sight and each day I was pushing the ability of these words to cope with my thoughts . |
| 13 | ‘ One day I was filling up with petrol when a chap stopped to say he was a member of the Ferrari Owners Club and used to have a car like mine , ’ says John . |
| 14 | One day I was called back from my duties of covering the coroner 's and juvenile courts and told that henceforth I was to be the paper 's " walking reporter " tramping the Dales and picking up whatever stories I could find . |
| 15 | Well I remember at that time the steam roller that was just doing the road outside Tormore House and many 's the day I was trying to get on it with a very good friend of ours that 's now dead . |
| 16 | Yet the other day I was listening to an eminent conductor whose Bruckner is often much praised reaching a triple forte long before what is to me self-evidently the work 's pivotal climax . |
| 17 | This day I was motored over to Burghclere to see Stanley Spencer 's mural paintings which he is now working on in the Memorial Chapel built for the plans of the pictures he has in mind . |
| 18 | I got to the Imperial at about half twelve and waited for Mark and co , unfortunately I had told him I would be in a leather and , due to the leather not being available that day I was wearing a lumber jacket ! |
| 19 | Anyway , one day I was messing about playing hide and seek , hiding from the officers , and they put me on report . |
| 20 | The next day I was chatting to friends — Joy and Alan Byne . |
| 21 | After my stay at Wuthering Heights , I thought I would never want to speak to any human being again , but by the end of the next day I was beginning to feel lonely . |
| 22 | The next day I was hanging out some washing and he walked past me . |
| 23 | Pendero was off the day I was riding him , that 's what matters . |
| 24 | But shortly after , to my surprise , I saw the female and two kits peering out from one of the branch holes , surveying the river , and for the rest of the day I was treated to some amazing mink behaviour . |
| 25 | The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too . |
| 26 | The next day I was to take the train to Puno , yet another notorious journey . |
| 27 | I remember one day I was serving lunch and the doctor strode in during the meal , walked up to his patient who was eating his lunch , pulled his head up and demanded , ‘ What is it this time ? ’ |
| 28 | Then one day I was standing there on a dune top , straining against the pull of the wind in the kite , gripping and hauling and sensing and adjusting and twisting , when one of those twists became like a strangle around Esmerelda 's neck , and the idea was there . |
| 29 | She said : ‘ One day I was standing here doing nothing in particular and I thought I could write a book about all that happens . |
| 30 | Last night , back home with her 38-year-old husband , she said : ‘ I prayed to God that this was not the day I was going to die . |