Example sentences of "day he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slept on a straw pallet in the low attic space at the Widow MacIntosh 's and these days he hated to wake up . |
| 2 | On odd days he would work on the novel . |
| 3 | On even days he whispered about the five different meanings of how 's your father and the etymology of knackered , Bob 's your uncles , and taking the piss out of X or Y . |
| 4 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 5 | In his student days he was happy and successful in his undergraduate career . |
| 6 | On off days he could sound tired , and sometimes excitement carried him away to an excess of length . |
| 7 | He dedicated this formidable intellect to eradicating nonsense from the world , especially nonsense in divinity , which was a world where in those days he could find plenty of targets for his scorn . |
| 8 | In those days he contemplated the idea that if the Church abandoned that inheritance he would have to resign his see . |
| 9 | In his Esso days he was invited to join the board of Williams $ Glyn . |
| 10 | For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines , stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime , tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass . |
| 11 | Having decided that he was very unlikely to shave for next sixteen or so days he wanted his beard to be at the past-scratch stage when he arrived . |
| 12 | It was very likely his best suit — today of all days he would surely wear his best suit — but it was a cheap off-the-peg affair . |
| 13 | It 's not his job or nothing , but he likes doing stuff in the garden , and most days he 's there . |
| 14 | Within three days he and Mr Primakov had written the letter to the G7 : that is , the article for Mr Smick 's magazine . |
| 15 | In his younger , more confident days he could quip that ‘ formalism is the name given to music not understood on first hearing ’ ; but by 1948 he was less resilient , and the situation more threatening . |
| 16 | Even on his worst ( silent ) days he was easily stirred by the song of a human or a bird , by the laugh of a woodpecker , the bark of a pheasant , the sight of a rare butterfly , or the bark of a fox in the darkness — with his easy and melodious way of putting over his knowledge … |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd seen him like that so many times before , but at least after a couple of days he 'd say , ‘ Vicky , I got to clean up . ’ |
| 18 | There was a time when he would n't have noticed it , but these days he was a little touchy about things like that , especially as Fran was now living with a man fourteen years younger . |
| 19 | In the old days he would have been amused and asked her how she 'd done it . |
| 20 | One of these days he 'll crucify them . |
| 21 | ‘ One of these days he 'll catch you at it , ’ Emily answered . |
| 22 | ‘ And if those four days he will need to collect Oreste were to come off Ferdinando 's own holiday which he would not take again then you would lose nothing , ma'am , if you please . ’ |
| 23 | WHEN Nick Faldo signs his autograph these days he uses the ‘ l ’ as a flagstick , on which he draws a flag bearing the number 11 . |
| 24 | In two days he had made birdies at only the 15th twice and the second once . |
| 25 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 26 | On bad days he was frantic , with black bristles sprouting over his face , screaming shrilly so that he was quite incomprehensible . |
| 27 | For whole days he wandered off to the cafés and bars in a stand to assert his independence . |
| 28 | For the past few days he had brought security into her child 's world of distorted perspectives and half comprehended fears . |
| 29 | ‘ Duart is forbidden visitors today , my lady , so that in two days he may be fit for the ceremony . |
| 30 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |