Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 31 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 32 | I shall always be grateful to Mr Rocke for his ready help and understanding during my early days at Thurnscoe . |
| 33 | But in my early days it was quite common for some of the old horsemen to walk anything up to two or three miles , and sometimes more , to bring harness down to the shop . |
| 34 | Following inadvertent groundings on the mud , which happened occasionally , especially in my early days of command , I would pick up my cap to find an insert in the badge reading " Bayly Dredging Co . " |
| 35 | Sails , well we had one or two sailing ships in my early days come up but the majority are steam . |
| 36 | It does not escape me that a fair hand has already written some account of my early days ; but that account broke off too soon , for I returned from the realms of ice , to which solitudes my soul — if I may be presumed to have one — was attracted . |
| 37 | hiding Joe remembers : ‘ In my early days I had a big following in Barnsley , bigger even than at home in Bradford and I played Alex there one night for a few pounds . |
| 38 | Except for our differences over Barbara Castle 's proposals for trade union reform , he and I had worked closely together since 1964 , and during my early days as Chancellor of the Exchequer when sterling was under great strain he was a considerable strength and comfort . |
| 39 | My early days at were not quite the era of the quill pen but at Ipswich and Rotherhithe , London SE16 , we had chest high desks with stools to match . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | ‘ In my early days I was into Pere Ubu and Josef K , but now I 'm more mellow and listen to Lyle Lovett and some classical stuff . |
| 42 | and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison . |
| 43 | Yes they have , very special gear in , in breathing apparatus and protective clothing , er which I did n't have in my early days , I mean breathing apparatus was just beginning to be used . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | ‘ It 's only my second day , ’ said Juliet , ‘ and I must dash . ’ |
| 46 | 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 . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ I played football in my younger days till I had a bad injury in my knee which I 'm now suffering from — chronic arthritis . |
| 48 | In my younger days the Church was the very heart of the community , and was always the place to bump into friends and family . |
| 49 | People have been attacked by the eagles and in my younger days there was an occasion when I myself attacked a visitor . ’ |
| 50 | In my younger days , ’ he bellowed , pulling his shoulders back martial fashion , ‘ I was keen as a greyhound , fast as a falcon swooping to the kill . ’ |
| 51 | There was a lengthy pause before he admitted , ‘ An unhappy experience in my younger days made me too dogmatic about certain ideas that became stuck in my head . |
| 52 | Can I , for the benefit of members opposite who , who always seem to believe that people on this side of the chamber are townies and do n't know anything about anything other than street lighting for the benefit of members opposite and for the public gallery outside , can I say that in my younger days , a million years ago , I rode with hunt . |
| 53 | No record could be found of my previous day 's arrangements . |
| 54 | Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess . |
| 55 | P. Oh , my worst day — get up , eat food , watch TV , sit in 'cause I 've got no money because I spent it all on Sunday , then off to work till 2am to earn more skating money . |
| 56 | In more than 3,000 hours of flying , this was my Worst Day so far . |
| 57 | On my worst days I would eat five or six bars of chocolate . |
| 58 | ‘ It 's my lucky day , ’ he said cheerfully . |
| 59 | ‘ This must be my lucky day , ’ said the un-canny Scot . |
| 60 | Must be my lucky day Ange . |