Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to know Rosemary before Basil ; she was my Art Adviser in my earliest days of teaching and how fortunate I was to have such encouragement , support and stimulation . |
| 2 | I killed the wolves myself in my young days . |
| 3 | In my young days , the western stream was known as the River Doe and the eastern the River Twiss : there was no apparent reason for the name Doe , but the name Twiss seemed to be derived from Twisleton Scar and Twisleton Hall below which it flowed . |
| 4 | The old smells were there , ‘ Itma ’ had been superseded by ‘ Coronation Street ’ in the Rest Room , and there were ‘ No Smoking ’ signs — unheard of in my young days — but one thing was missing . |
| 5 | Not that in my young days there were never some wild moments . |
| 6 | I well remember going with her to buy a new hat ( we all wore hats in my young days ) . |
| 7 | It was n't like that in my young days . |
| 8 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 9 | I remember in my young days — ’ She stopped and for a moment they sat quietly , both thinking of past Christmases when their parents and grandparents had been alive . |
| 10 | I 've often reflected how I might have reacted in my early days as a Christian to such advice . |
| 11 | I got more letters on that than anything else in my early days . |
| 12 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . " |
| 15 | Sails , well we had one or two sailing ships in my early days come up but the majority are steam . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker . |
| 21 | In my latter days at school , this old hall became the gym , and we had a new , much larger hall with room for chairs . |
| 22 | This was in my earlier days when carrying out general duties ashore . |
| 23 | My diary , in my pre-anorexic days , often refers to a ‘ weight of depression ’ which I felt myself to be carrying around . |
| 24 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |
| 25 | In my childish days I remember I used to fear to touch the little girls ' sleeves ; so it is now . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I played football in my younger days till I had a bad injury in my knee which I 'm now suffering from — chronic arthritis . |
| 28 | In my younger days the Church was the very heart of the community , and was always the place to bump into friends and family . |
| 29 | People have been attacked by the eagles and in my younger days there was an occasion when I myself attacked a visitor . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |