Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ranks among one of my greatest days . |
| 2 | Only three could read , and none could write , so at the end of my first day I felt quite depressed at the thought of the hard work ahead of me . |
| 3 | It 's amazing , even after a forty-year gap , that I feel I still have a rapport with most mineworkers because of my early days in the industry . |
| 4 | It does not escape me that a fair hand has already written some account of my early days ; but that account broke off too soon , for I returned from the realms of ice , to which solitudes my soul — if I may be presumed to have one — was attracted . |
| 5 | Andrew Carnegie , millionaire-to-be , believed his ‘ optimistic nature ’ and wit ‘ must have been inherited ’ from his ‘ delightful old masquerading grandfather ; ’ while the future feminist Hannah Mitchell could see her own dogged persistence in the extraordinary working energy of the octogenarian grandmother who was ‘ the delight and terror of my young days ’ |
| 6 | But I have n't bothered with dresses for so long — it brings back some happy memories of my young days . |
| 7 | The timing of that , like the timing of my whole day , depends solely on the state of the M25 motorway . |
| 8 | No record could be found of my previous day 's arrangements . |
| 9 | As I escorted Marinka to the Oasis Arena in the torrential rain , the scene of mimose reminded me of my halcyon days at . |
| 10 | It 's one of my silly days . |
| 11 | Here 's the story of my exciting day out . |
| 12 | I was glad to hear the accent , for it reminded me of my exciting days in Northern Ireland , recounted elsewhere . |
| 13 | Speeches finished in the late afternoon of my last day there and judgement was reserved to London . |
| 14 | Poets of a certain generation are notoriously fond of writing tearful tributes to one another in memory of their rollicking days in Soho in the Forties , or was it the Fifties ? |
| 15 | The 62 MPs reached a consensus ahead of their fifth day of talks on ending Lebanon 's confessional political system . |
| 16 | Most people have vivid memories of their first day at school and their childhood home . |
| 17 | At first they had no joy and , on the evening of their first day out of London , went to bed so weary they could scarce speak to each other . |
| 18 | Many of the Free Churches now mark the seasons of the year and the major feasts in the Church 's calendar , in addition to the observance of their traditional days such as a Church Anniversary and the annual Covenant Service . |
| 19 | The fifty orphans all aged between eight and twelve made the most of their last day in Malvern Wells . |
| 20 | The fifty orphans all aged between eight and twelve made the most of their last day in Malvern Wells . |
| 21 | The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century antiquaries created the vision of a luxurious country house , seeing it no doubt as an early precursor of the great houses , standing in their splendid parks , of their own day . |
| 22 | The people lived for seven days in shelters made of branches — essentially as an agricultural thanksgiving , but also as a reminder of their tent-dwelling days in the wilderness ( Leviticus 23:43 ) . |
| 23 | Changing subject totally again ; - ) does anyone know if Leeds are having one of their open days this year ? |
| 24 | But Simon and Mary Jane have filled their house with reminders of the travels of their younger days , when they loved to visit exotic places such as Indonesia , Morocco , Thailand , Burma and Australia and New Zealand . |
| 25 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 26 | To think they are , shows that they are governed not by the Spirit but by the attitudes and outlook of their unregenerate days ( 3:1,3 ) . |
| 27 | For most this will mark the end of their playing days . |
| 28 | Because of its target-towing days in Sweden the rear cockpit was slightly non-standard , this meant that new perspex panels had to be manufactured to bring the rear cockpit back to Mk 1 configuration , the target cable guides on the tailplane were removed and the tailplane restored to standard fit . |
| 29 | Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maiolica has in the last few years returned to popularity ( the recent exhibition of the maiolica collections of the Metropolitan Museum was regularly crowded , to the amazement of Met officials ) , though most of its present day collectors are Italian . |
| 30 | Now , as they dry and become rigid , the insect slowly moves them apart to show the world for the first time the unblemished perfection of its shimmering colours and awaits the dawn of its first day . |