Example sentences of "even in [pos pn] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in its best days the circulation of the magazine had been limited to some eight hundred subscribers ( most of whom were " Eliot watchers " , according to Stephen Spender ) and by the time it had ceased publication that number had dropped to a couple of hundred . |
| 2 | What struck me about Winnie , even in her junior days , was not just her determination to succeed in everything she tackled — but also to derive the greatest enjoyment as she did so . |
| 3 | Even in his early days , when I did an end-of-term ‘ report ’ on Andrew at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth , I learned he was nicknamed ‘ The Great I am ( the Prince ) ’ . |
| 4 | Celtic 's 5–1 defeat in Switzerland still irritates Brady , who admits that not even in his playing days did he take part in a recovery of these proportions . |
| 5 | My conception of the part , especially since we were seeing its full development in the three plays , was that even in his wild days the Prince must sometimes be aware of the burden of kingship which lay ahead . |
| 6 | Wolfram 's humanity was exceptional even in his own day ( see p. 422 ) ; and there was no doubt much that was fanciful and artificial in the cult of courtly love . |
| 7 | Even in his own day his wines were called , not after Hautvillers , but after the man himself , vins de Pérignon . |
| 8 | Lanfranc himself was only partly converted , and , even in his last days , he was still giving quantities of the bodies of his predecessors , which had filled the old church before the fire of 1067 , to his new foundation of canons outside the walls of the city . |
| 9 | You 've got nothing that would even attract a body-starved sailor ; even in your young days you were really nothing . |
| 10 | When we turn to the uterus , not only is it situated in the abdomen , but it is also confined to women ; and even in our enlightened days , it is hedged around with taboos . |