Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] day in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was generally pressed for time in my few day in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well as it deserved . |
| 2 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |
| 3 | I was glad to hear the accent , for it reminded me of my exciting days in Northern Ireland , recounted elsewhere . |
| 4 | It 's amazing , even after a forty-year gap , that I feel I still have a rapport with most mineworkers because of my early days in the industry . |
| 5 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 6 | This possibly had something to do with my early days in Mespot , where the Wapiti had huge doughnut wheels and literally you could choose a very restricted area and get the aircraft down . |
| 7 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |
| 8 | On my first day in Alaska I made a bee-line for the local radio station KFAR where I met the manager , Augie Hiebert and we spent the rest of the day talking shop . |
| 9 | ‘ On my first day in corporate finance I was translating for a Japanese MD who was hoping to buy a British company . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Bob was very helpful when he played under men and gave me a lot of helpful advice , especially after Middlesex had scored 120 for 0 against use before lunch on my first day in charge ! ’ |
| 11 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 12 | On my first day in the job he took me into the director 's Portakabin , put his arm around me and , showing me the empty trophy case , said ‘ Your job , Les , is to fill that cabinet before I die . ’ |
| 13 | But anyway , she made me promise that my first day in New York , I 'd go to Statue of Liberty . |
| 14 | He told the 114 delegates assembled at the resort 's Savoy Hotel how the environmental group had regarded BNFL when he took office in 1986 : ‘ You remember , they re-named April the first , my first day in office , British Nuclear Fools Day . |
| 15 | I have known her since my earliest days in publishing , when she played an important role in the launching of Paladin Books , and I have admired and learned from her every since … ’ |
| 16 | Her few days in Monaco , relatively untroubled by the Press , not even the paparazzi bothering her , were at an end . |
| 17 | On average the infants in both groups were operated on on their second day in hospital . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd read The Lonely Londoners and I could relate to it from what my parents had told me about their early days in London [ before moving back to Nigeria when Agbenugba was ten ] . |
| 19 | Recalling their early days in racing , Lord Hesketh said : ‘ He was known as Hunt the Shunt and no one would hire him . |
| 20 | In its early days in Berners Street the Institute was not recognized by Industry and Commerce , as Sir Kenneth Cork recalled in his Foreword to the Golden Jubilee issue of the Journal of the Institute of Credit Management ( which it had become in 1989 ) , of which he was President . |
| 21 | Francis Bacon , who drank free at the Colony Room in its early days in exchange for introducing rich punters , has remarked on Muriel 's ‘ tremendous ability to create an atmosphere of ease ’ . |
| 22 | She describes her early days in this job as chaotic . |
| 23 | During its six days in Havana harbour the St Louis had become a tourist attraction , and its departure was watched by an estimated crowd of 100,000 . |
| 24 | Ruth had discovered Washington Square on her second day in New York . |
| 25 | ‘ Alain will be home in the morning , ’ Marguerite observed as she came to bid Jenna goodnight after her second day in bed . |
| 26 | ‘ You make me sound like someone who spends their entire day in front of the nearest mirror and never travels without a cosmetic tray in their handbag . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ She spent a lot of time in her younger days in Aberystwyth . |
| 28 | On June 15 Chamorro announced that the Army would be reduced by 50 per cent to fewer than 41,000 soldiers by her 100th day in office and that military conscription would formally end on Dec. 7 ; further reductions would depend on the overall military balance in the region . |
| 29 | Poets of a certain generation are notoriously fond of writing tearful tributes to one another in memory of their rollicking days in Soho in the Forties , or was it the Fifties ? |
| 30 | They arrived at Harborough soon after 7.00 p.m. , and after their long day in the fresh air , doubtless tucked into the ‘ sumptuous dinner ’ provided with relish . |