Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I remember herring fishing in me young days . |
| 2 | And I came across it in my young day when I had no business , but I begged it out them . |
| 3 | I killed the wolves myself in my young days . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The old smells were there , ‘ Itma ’ had been superseded by ‘ Coronation Street ’ in the Rest Room , and there were ‘ No Smoking ’ signs — unheard of in my young days — but one thing was missing . |
| 6 | Not that in my young days there were never some wild moments . |
| 7 | I well remember going with her to buy a new hat ( we all wore hats in my young days ) . |
| 8 | It was n't like that in my young days . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've often reflected how I might have reacted in my early days as a Christian to such advice . |
| 12 | I got more letters on that than anything else in my early days . |
| 13 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | Sails , well we had one or two sailing ships in my early days come up but the majority are steam . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There are many different buildings in my usual day . |
| 23 | My diary , in my pre-anorexic days , often refers to a ‘ weight of depression ’ which I felt myself to be carrying around . |
| 24 | In my childish days I remember I used to fear to touch the little girls ' sleeves ; so it is now . |
| 25 | I certainly preferred them in their stamping days . ’ |
| 26 | Their propositions were often vague and irrefutable by concrete evidence ; and though economics and sociology in their early days made great promises for the reform of society through understanding , these promises have not , Sir Keith believed , been fulfilled . |
| 27 | It was maybe because in their early days The Smiths were so simple sound-wise , the guitar was so thin and the sound was fairly quiet and you could hear these intricate little lines which were really pretty to the ear . |
| 28 | Many of those organisations which were dependent in their early days on the passion and commitment of lesbians and gay men are now run by heterosexual ‘ professionals ’ . |
| 29 | Notoriously , there are people like Sir Peter Tapsell , headhunted for the cabinet and beyond in their early days , with no defect of character in terms of ability , whom bad time-tabling ( the Tory defeat in February 1974 ) and abrupt changes to a malignant east wind ( the arrival of Mrs Thatcher ) , have succinctly done for . |
| 30 | All young players must accept periods like this in their early days . |