Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] day [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's my half day on the , that Sunday . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 4 | ‘ No worse than my first day as a medical student , anyway . |
| 5 | Certainly children who start their primary school life in the late 1980s will enter a far richer classroom than did the children I was responsible for on my first day of teaching . |
| 6 | On my first day of school my mum kept trying to wake me but I pretended I was asleep because I was so nervous , eventually mum knew that I was playing a trick . |
| 7 | A graphic example was given me when on my first day of lecturing in a college of education a student came up and earnestly asked me : " Do you believe the Bible — yes or no ? " |
| 8 | My first day at Tropicana was spent in a boat , on the beach , and in the bar . |
| 9 | It was the latter who inspired me on my first day at the tech . |
| 10 | I remember the sinking feeling still : 1964 , having just moved up to Leeds and my first day at Almscliff — then , and probably still , the best swather of tall poppies in the land . |
| 11 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |
| 12 | The short brown gym tunic with its blue and gold woven girdle that I wore on my first day at Elmwood was a symbol of entry into a new world of lady-like refinement and academic elitism . |
| 13 | I do n't remember what the occasion was — maybe it was my first day at school , or maybe I was staying with my aunt for a few days … ’ |
| 14 | That was my first day at Lowood . |
| 15 | Erm I can recall my first day at school . |
| 16 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 17 | On my first day at the university I met my teacher , Professor Waldman , who was one of the greatest scientists in the world . |
| 18 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 19 | There were less than twelve hours before the big day , my first day at Debenham High School . |
| 20 | As I look back now though I realise the similarities , in six months time I will be embarking on a new era of my life , my first day at sixth form . |
| 21 | I can vaguely remember my first day at school . |
| 22 | got a flu over in england though and this is my first day at work for one and a half week … |
| 23 | My first day on the works I was sent off to whitewash a shed all by myself . |
| 24 | It was far worse than my first day on the wards . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ On my first day in corporate finance I was translating for a Japanese MD who was hoping to buy a British company . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 28 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | But anyway , she made me promise that my first day in New York , I 'd go to Statue of Liberty . |