Example sentences of "[noun] in [pos pn] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I played football in my younger days till I had a bad injury in my knee which I 'm now suffering from — chronic arthritis . |
| 2 | A further ‘ flaw ’ in the Bond conditions , but written in in good faith for the security of the Club in its early days , was the option of the Bondholders to receive either 3% interest , or free playing membership if holding a block of 4 x £25 bonds . |
| 3 | The floating exchange rate regime has thus become less managed from about 1980 than was the practice in its early days , with the US authorities in particular more reluctant to engage in foreign currency transactions . |
| 4 | The visitors , who included several who had been employed at RHS in its early days , were welcomed to the service by the school chaplain , the Rev Kevan McCormack , who referred to the support given to the school by many local people over the years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He used to be a keen sportsman in his younger days and rowed for England . |
| 7 | My father had relaxed on a Sunday afternoon , either listening to the band on Southsea Common in his later days or with a paintbox in his younger days . |
| 8 | Korn/Ferry 's strategy was to maximise their profit margins by handling all aspects of the work , and they were fortunate to gain such prestigious clients as Rockwell and Norton Simon in their early days ; but the concept of headhunting was less well-established on the West Coast than in Manhattan and the partners , fighting for all the fees they could earn , were forced to undertake contingency work to help build up their volume . |
| 9 | It is difficult to imagine what Flaubert would have thought of Sand in her younger days , as the headstrong lover of Musset and Chopin . |
| 10 | Many of them believe that the immigration of overseas doctors was encouraged to support the NHS in its early days , only for the overseas doctors subsequently to be marginalised . |
| 11 | It would have seemed strange to those who had known Nigel in his early days as a conscientious objector to find him cheering the prime minister through the Falklands War . |
| 12 | Few teachers are appointed for only one of the three tasks and even if their hands are full with teaching or with a senior teacher 's responsibilities or a large clutch of pastoral duties in their early days , they will know from the head what kind of organization they are joining . |
| 13 | This is the fear that haunts President Aquino in her final days in Malacanang Palace before presidential elections on May 11 . |
| 14 | The Church certainly had doubts about the crossbow , with its deadly bolt or quarrel , a reaction which was about to be extended among certain circles to the use of cannon in its early days . |
| 15 | So far , he 's on 36 for Liverpool and three for Chester in his early days . |
| 16 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 17 | Francis Bacon , who drank free at the Colony Room in its early days in exchange for introducing rich punters , has remarked on Muriel 's ‘ tremendous ability to create an atmosphere of ease ’ . |
| 18 | His experience of mathematics teaching in his first post was SMILE in its early days . |
| 19 | One of Frankie 's greatest fears in his final days was letting people down . |
| 20 | Several stations had financial problems in their early days . |
| 21 | A person in his final days , thinking about good and evil and all the usual fare . ’ |
| 22 | Bumbler the man might be , but his unaffected tenderness reminded Agnew of the care he had lavished on his own wife in her dying days . |
| 23 | ‘ He used to be a very useful runner in his younger days , ’ Joe explained , ‘ used to run for the Gloucester Harriers so they say . |
| 24 | I well remember going with her to buy a new hat ( we all wore hats in my young days ) . |
| 25 | He was so like Sambo in his younger days that she laid her hand on his head , as if they were old friends . |
| 26 | Likewise the romance of the cinema in our younger days is recalled in ‘ Casablanca ’ — but look behind the lyrics and their wider application becomes apparent . |
| 27 | That support involved ferrying Chris all over the country for race meetings in his younger days . |
| 28 | There may be a cult in the making — and one could imagine a film by Antonioni , whose script-writer , Mark Peploe , was intrigued by J. Behrens in his last days . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But Hannah can vividly recall Baldersdale in its finest days , as a place where the full theatre of life was played out . |