Example sentences of "my [adj -er] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I played football in my younger days till I had a bad injury in my knee which I 'm now suffering from — chronic arthritis . |
| 3 | In my younger days the Church was the very heart of the community , and was always the place to bump into friends and family . |
| 4 | People have been attacked by the eagles and in my younger days there was an occasion when I myself attacked a visitor . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In my older day , okay , I 'll write a book . |
| 9 | This was in my earlier days when carrying out general duties ashore . |