Example sentences of "on [pos pn] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 'm very nice , but even on my best days I never look at myself like that . |
| 2 | On my final day at Berkeley , my fourth-form pupils presented me with some flowers and a small mounted copy of Claude Lorrain 's ‘ Hagar and the Angel ’ . |
| 3 | That was to be a visit to Chinchero market on my final day . |
| 4 | On my first day in Alaska I made a bee-line for the local radio station KFAR where I met the manager , Augie Hiebert and we spent the rest of the day talking shop . |
| 5 | ‘ On my first day I felt so self-conscious , like a country bumpkin . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ On my first day in corporate finance I was translating for a Japanese MD who was hoping to buy a British company . ’ |
| 7 | It was the latter who inspired me on my first day at the tech . |
| 8 | And all on my first day — this is the sport to capture the imagination . |
| 9 | Certainly children who start their primary school life in the late 1980s will enter a far richer classroom than did the children I was responsible for on my first day of teaching . |
| 10 | Having met with this problem on my first day , the following morning I wised-up and took a taxi around the harbour , half an hour before sunrise , to approach Farm Cove by way of the delightfully names Woolloomooloo Bay . |
| 11 | ‘ Bob was very helpful when he played under men and gave me a lot of helpful advice , especially after Middlesex had scored 120 for 0 against use before lunch on my first day in charge ! ’ |
| 12 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 13 | The short brown gym tunic with its blue and gold woven girdle that I wore on my first day at Elmwood was a symbol of entry into a new world of lady-like refinement and academic elitism . |
| 14 | On my first day in the job he took me into the director 's Portakabin , put his arm around me and , showing me the empty trophy case , said ‘ Your job , Les , is to fill that cabinet before I die . ’ |
| 15 | Having met with this problem on my first day , the following morning I wised-up and took and taxi around the harbour , half an hour before sunrise , to approach Farm Cove by way of the delightfully named Woolloomooloo Bay . |
| 16 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 17 | On my first day at the university I met my teacher , Professor Waldman , who was one of the greatest scientists in the world . |
| 18 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 19 | On my first day of school my mum kept trying to wake me but I pretended I was asleep because I was so nervous , eventually mum knew that I was playing a trick . |
| 20 | On my first day there I acted like a young lord , lying on my bed , my boots on , sipping from a cup of canary and wondering what steps I should take next . |
| 21 | A graphic example was given me when on my first day of lecturing in a college of education a student came up and earnestly asked me : " Do you believe the Bible — yes or no ? " |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't seem to have made a brilliant start so far — getting lost and being late on my first day must be something of a record ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ On my first day the Prime Minister shook me by the hand . |
| 24 | ‘ Every month , on my fertile day , I get the feeling that I could grab any man and try to get pregnant — I know it 's a fantasy . ’ |
| 25 | I am not saying take me on my good days . |
| 26 | I do all I can on my good days . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ A genius on my good days , ’ Devlin told him solemnly . |
| 28 | On my third day of freedom I managed to steal some coins and sent a note to my master in Ipswich . |
| 29 | On my fourth day I went to visit the United Nations . |
| 30 | On my worst days I would eat five or six bars of chocolate . |