Verb for the word day

Thus we spent several days, having splendid sport, and first—rate appetites to do justice upon our prey.

They wanted very much to go to the Conciergerie to see the prison where the unfortunate Marie Antoinette passed the last days of her unhappy life, and Mr. Gladstone, inspired by the subject, made us a sort of conference on the French Revolution and the causes which led up to it, culminating in the Terror and the execution of the King and Queen.

I remember one day in the hunting—field he got a nasty fall.

«You‘ll end your days on the scaffold!« cried my uncle.

Found volcano taking a day off.

Ay, if you could make me believe that indeed, when she knew Me not, nor ever saw me all the Days of her Life before.

He gave his days to the signing of stiff parchmentsAdmiralty Orders or what not.

Each of us brings some day his special product to the common mart.

« The Colonel finally carried the day.

Miss Myra Mooney, formerly a beauty, had known her days of success.

The meeting was divided, and it looked as though Claudius was to win the day.

If people play a good game of bridge, they are welcome guests in a great many houses which formerly would have been closed to them, and it is a great resource to ladies no longer very young, widows and spinsters, who find their days long and don’t know what to do with their lives.

I didn’t want it either, I had never lived much in England, had not many friends there, and was counting the days until we could get off to Rome.

Thus, in 1920, Italy, according to statistics of her Minister of Labour, lost 55,000,000 days of work because of strikes alone.

She went peacefully home with her husband, and after a good night‘s rest in the little rooms he had taken for her, she was able to listen calmly when told next day of the capture of the whole Marac family.

«Well now, we had better fix the day for the race,« said Cais to Hadifah.

He had been too occupied the last days to think about any such trifles, and Kruft, not having had any contrary instructions, had ordered the presents and decorations.

He was never an early riser, worked always very late (said his best despatches were written after midnight), and didn’t care about beginning his day too early.

The description which we gave of the beautiful lake we had left the day before, the story of the moose and the bear we had killed, together with our quit—claim of the shanty we had, inhabited, brought our friends to the conclusion to drift that way for a week or so.

She did not forget the dark day when her first—born was laid in the grave, nor that triumphant and brilliant climax of her life when every one pointed to her as the mother of a hero.

It recalls to us the days of siege and warfare when the Governor of the struggling settlement sought the help of the sturdy fishermen and when Rustom Dorabji put himself at their head, formed them into a rudely—drilled corps, and drove the Sidi off the island.

But the Church, feeling that every martyr should be venerated, appointed a common day for all.

The fever spent itself at last and there followed long days of utter prostration both of mind and body.

Having now set upon a longer journeythe day being fine and the sidewalks throngedyou pass by a restaurant that is but a few doors up the street.

« But, whilst he was weaving in the cellar where his grandfather and uncle also worked, he was at the same time gaining knowledge day by day.

day noun

¹ period of 24 hours

ADJ. the following, (the) next | the previous | the other I was in your area the other day (= recently). | one, some I hope we meet again some day. | the very It happened on the very day (= the same day) that Kemp was murdered. The parcel arrived the very next day. | auspicious, big, eventful, field, historic, memorable, red-letter, special The tabloid press had a field day with the latest government scandal. | fateful, sad those killed in the hail of bullets fired on that fateful day | Christmas, Mother’s, etc. | feast, holy | election, opening, market, pay, polling, sports, visiting, wedding | rest, school, study, training the pattern of the school day

DAY + VERB pass He thought of her less as the days passed.

PREP. by the ~ He’s getting stronger by the day. | for a/the ~ They stayed for ten days. | in a/the ~ We hope to finish the job in a few days. | on the ~ (of) On the day of his wedding he was very nervous. | ~ of It was the day of the big match.

² time between sunrise and sunset

ADJ. beautiful, bright, fine, glorious, hot, nice, sunny, warm | cold, grey, rainy, windy | autumn, spring, summer/summer’s, winter/winter’s a fine summer’s day | fun, good, great, happy, lovely, wonderful Memories of happy days on the hills never fade. | bad On a bad day chaos reigns and nobody can predict when a plane will leave. | full I knew I had a full day’s driving ahead of me.

VERB + DAY spend We spent the day gardening.

DAY + VERB break, dawn As day dawned I found her already hard at work.

PREP. by ~ We travelled at night and rested by day. | during the ~, for a/the ~ We went to the seaside for the day.

PHRASES all day (long), at the end of the day, day and night, one of those days It’s been one of those days when everything’s gone wrong.

³ hours of the day when you work

ADJ. working | bad, busy, hard, long, tiring a hard day at the office | good, quiet | 7-hour, 8-hour, etc. a 9-hour working day

PHRASES a good day’s work

⁴ (often days) particular period of time

ADJ. early, former, old, olden in the early days of the cinema | school, student, young in his younger days | golden, happy, heady the heady days of the ‘swinging sixties’ | dark the dark days of recession

PREP. in sb’s ~ Things were very different in my grandfather’s day. | of the ~ the government of the day | since the ~s of Much has changed since the days of my youth.

PHRASES gone are the days when … Gone are the days when you could do a week’s shopping and still have change from £20. | the bad/good old days That was in the bad old days of rampant inflation. | in this day and age, in those days, the present day (= the situation that exists in the world now) a study of European drama, from Ibsen to the present day | these days Kids grow up so quickly these days. | those were the days (= used to suggest that a time in the past was better than now) > Note at DAY

bow out

Today: Fri, 14 Apr 2023

Meaning:

to resign from a job, or to end a career, usually after a long time

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В английском языке глаголы делятся на правильные и неправильные. Неправильные глаголы — это такие глаголы, у которых форма прошедшего времени ( Past tense form ), а также форма причастия прошедшего времени ( Past participle ) образуется не так, как у правильных глаголов. Правильные глаголы образуют эти формы путём прибавления –ed к первой форме. Подробнее про глаголы.

Нет общего правила для неправильных глаголов. Их нужно просто выучить.

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