Example sentences of "[prep] his day [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 3 | Eck 's reputation was that of a sophist or dialectician rather than a profound thinker but in his day he exercised tremendous influence . |
| 4 | 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 ? ) . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | In his day he was regarded as one of the principal authorities and his books : The Hereford Earthquake of December 17 , 1896 ( 1899 ) ; A Study of Recent Earthquakes ( 1905 ) ; The Origin of Earthquakes ( 1912 ) ; A Manual of Seismology ( 1921 ) ; A History of British Earthquakes ( 1924 ) ; The Founders of Seismology ( 1927 ) ; The Japanese Earthquakes of 1923 ( 1931 ) ; and Great Earthquakes ( 1936 ) remained useful sources of reference . |
| 7 | If , that is , ‘ It was a beautiful morning … ’ were said by someone capable of saying it , because in his day it was still possible , still not shopworn ? |
| 8 | But London was a puzzle ; for Bede had told us that in his day it was ‘ a mart of many peoples ’ , a trading centre for merchants from overseas as well as for native traffickers . |
| 9 | In his day it was factory smoke , not petrol , |
| 10 | Blake was amazed at the discussion and how these men could talk about a whole planet in one conversation ; in his day it was not unusual for a conversation to centre solely on one part of London , and only in times of war was England ever considered as a single entity under threat . |
| 11 | But it was United 's new striker Alex Dyer who starred next … he holds the ball up well and what a pass for Allen to chase … some finish to by the young winger … on his day he 's a matchwinner … |
| 12 | But it was United 's new striker Alex Dyer who starred next … he holds the ball up well and what a pass for Allen to chase … some finish to by the young winger … on his day he 's a matchwinner … |
| 13 | This quote from Portsmouth manager , Jim Smith , is about Mark Chamberlain ( remember him ? ) but sums ups the breed : ‘ On his day he can be as good as anyone in the country . |
| 14 | Yet during his day he featured as a significant Afro-Asian leader , a ‘ charismatic ’ personality like Nehru who made a far greater impact on the international scene than Nu with his disarming frankness and humility . |