Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] day [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half at least of her day she spent in the closed and sealed place of her lady 's captivity , half of her night imprisoned with the boy . |
| 2 | He was too slow , or too fast ; so that sweeping — and most of his day he spent sweeping , brushing the floors , the shavings from the machines — he was either busy or , conversely , slack to stand on his brush , an affront to Parker who would move him on to some other task . |
| 3 | Like other Vietnamese of his day he was given two names ; his first , ‘ sacred ’ name bestowed at birth was Nguyen Van Coong ( modification of Cung and meaning ‘ respectful ’ ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps , but while getting soaked to the skin may put a kick into your day it does not appeal to me . ’ |
| 5 | The non-academic streams tend to have fancy names whereas in my day they were the D and E streams , and most schools make an effort to provide a specialised curriculum . |
| 6 | People seem to have some urge to tell everyone else all the things which in my day we kept quiet about ! |
| 7 | In my day we left cooking to the women unless , of course , it was a fancy French chef . |
| 8 | ‘ In my day we went out to break an opponent 's concentration — not his leg . |
| 9 | However tempting it may be , try to avoid falling in to the trap of ‘ in my day we did it this way ’ or you may receive a stinging reply . |
| 10 | In my day we had the As as the top stream ; the Bs and Cs were the mid-range ; the Es were ESN and the Ds were the dustbin men who roamed the yard after break and lunch times collecting empty milk bottles and rubbish . |
| 11 | Back in my day we often used to have five or six wingers on the field at once . |
| 12 | Though , to be sure , in my day we used so much powder one could n't always tell . ’ |
| 13 | In my day we had long skirts , near came right down to the ground . ’ |
| 14 | In my day we had taxis or Beetles or the old-style Escorts and Australians always had VW Dormobiles . |
| 15 | In my day we had great stars like that Peter Barnes , then there was Brian Greenhoff , he were grand . |
| 16 | In my day we treated our old heroes right and they only played for 10 bob a week . |
| 17 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 18 | I hesitate to correct the hon. Gentleman 's pronunciation , but in my day I fought the constituency of Islwyn which is now represented by the Leader of the Opposition , and I can tell him that it is pronounced ’ Issloin ’ . |
| 19 | They they had er they had hamme They had Again y Even in my day you had some hand squads , as they were called , who would have their own er rivet hammers you know , and hand hammers . |
| 20 | There was no easy way out in my day you w yo y |
| 21 | It was not , I may say , for want of trying , but in my day it eluded me . |
| 22 | and when I see the buses now running around , they seem to run everywhere I do n't on earth what kind of running board they 've got because in my day it was so well regulated that erm you just recorded certain intermediate stages and I quote Witton and Rushmere you get , used to get Witton Terminus , Norwich Road Bridge , Sherrington Road , Barret Corner , Electric House and you gave an indication of the time that those buses should be passing those times . |
| 23 | In my day it even faced the other way . |
| 24 | Mrs Orton told Stephanie how in her day they made right big puffed-up brown Yorkshires and served them separate , with the gravy poured in , before the meat , to spin it out , you had to scrape and pinch in them days . |
| 25 | But if today Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the few women to have been admitted to the art historical canon under the banner of ‘ greatness ’ , in her day she never won the critical acclaim she sought . |
| 26 | In its day it built the world 's first by-pass and dug the world 's first underground railway . |
| 27 | Stimulus-response ( S-R ) psychology has largely gone out of fashion now , yet in its day it carried the field , and even now its influence is still felt . |
| 28 | Eck 's reputation was that of a sophist or dialectician rather than a profound thinker but in his day he exercised tremendous influence . |
| 29 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
| 30 | Cade founded no dynasty , but in his day he was a major operator in what R. H. Tawney [ q.v. ] called ‘ that seductive border region where business greases the wheels of politics and polite society smiles hopefully on both ’ . |