Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] day of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? " |
| 4 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |
| 5 | Twelfth is my last day of . |
| 6 | She used to say that Christmas Eve was her favourite day of the year , and her enthusiasm added to the delight of anticipation . |
| 7 | A further deep Atlantic low gave the bulk of the population their wettest day of the month on the 23rd but , from the 25th to the 30th , the depressions became noticeably less intense . |
| 8 | The 62 MPs reached a consensus ahead of their fifth day of talks on ending Lebanon 's confessional political system . |
| 9 | If there is still no contact , advise Payroll of termination date , which would be their first day of absence . |
| 10 | Towards the end of 1989 film and TV scripts were flooding in at an unprecedented rate , spurred on by her successful debut live tour , the incredible success , even by her standards , of her second album ‘ Enjoy Yourself ’ which entered the British LP charts at number one on its first day of release in October that year and the much-anticipated release of The Delinquents . |
| 11 | DRACULA earned £7 million on its first day of release in the US . |
| 12 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 13 | On its first day of trading , the shop took 1.6 million roubles ( about US $2,600 ) . |
| 14 | And its first day of death was blue and warm |
| 15 | This balmy airmass gave most places their warmest day of the month on the 16th — over 13C being recorded at Glasgow and Edinburgh . |
| 16 | Here she , not he , is the anxious worker , soon dressed , pausing briefly over The Guardian Women 's Page and muesli before climbing into her clapped-out Renault and heading for her own day of action . |
| 17 | Undersoil heating at other grounds meant the Premier League was confident of promoting a full Boxing Day programme on what is traditionally its best-attended day of the year . |
| 18 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 19 | Owen Owen 's store today is its last day of business |
| 20 | In his second day of evidence before Sheriff Brian Lockhart , he said that that would have been good management . |
| 21 | Allen is in his second day of cross-examination in the custody hearing over Moses , the adopted daughter Dylan , 7 and biological son Satchel , 5 . |
| 22 | One teacher described to a group how on his first day of teaching he faced his class of first-year juniors thinking " Reading ? |
| 23 | On his first day of arrival he was told the authorities had closed EuroDisney down and when he asked why , he was told someone had reported to the authorities that a six foot mouse was walking round the day before . |
| 24 | Cheshire was unlucky not to have his best day of the season . |
| 25 | In Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Smith breached his duty of fidelity by canvassing his employers ' customers during his last day of employment when he made his last milk round . |
| 26 | But the shock of white corridors refreshes , as do the nurses and strangers milling about , both the sick and the visiting , a comforting sight after our lonely day of dreamless sleep . |
| 27 | On our first day of trading we took £8.36 , which delighted us , but a local health nut had eaten the geraniums and it cost £6 to replace them . |
| 28 | We are all happy a strike was not necessary on this our first day of independence . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I 'm really making a mess of your first day of term . |
| 30 | If on your first day of testing you see a colour which is the same or darker than the reference colour given in the test , you should go ahead and have intercourse . |