Example sentences of "during [pos pn] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall always be grateful to Mr Rocke for his ready help and understanding during my early days at Thurnscoe . |
| 2 | Except for our differences over Barbara Castle 's proposals for trade union reform , he and I had worked closely together since 1964 , and during my early days as Chancellor of the Exchequer when sterling was under great strain he was a considerable strength and comfort . |
| 3 | In fact , during my first days under Mr Farraday , I was once or twice quite astounded by some of the things he would say to me . |
| 4 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 5 | It never crossed my mind that I would ever recover from the suffering I underwent during my last days there , and especially my last hours . |
| 6 | During its six days in Havana harbour the St Louis had become a tourist attraction , and its departure was watched by an estimated crowd of 100,000 . |
| 7 | So unusual was this setup that during its early days we even had dealers contacting us to discover how it was being done ! |
| 8 | Each day during its 91 day life , it should increase in value a little . |
| 9 | The black furry coat with which it was born and which helped it to keep warm during its first days is now sloughed off , revealing the shorter shiny coat which is more suitable for a swimmer . |
| 10 | He had always been confident that Fibres would survive even during its darkest days : ‘ Parts of our business are volatile and people are used to reacting quickly and decisively — that is what we had to do but on a very big scale and at very considerable cost . ’ |
| 11 | This is in part due to practice ; but there is also an influence of maturation , for if a chick is prevented from pecking at food during its second day , it will still be better at pecking on its third than on its first day ( Figure 3.5 ) but it will not be as accurate as it would have been if it had been allowed to practise . |
| 12 | Moreover , now that I come to think of it , it is perhaps not so surprising that it should also have made a deep impression on Miss Kenton given certain aspects of her relationship with my father during her early days at Darlington Hall . |
| 13 | During her early days at Decca her first attempt ( in October , 1947 ) at the Vier ernste Gesänge , although accorded 78rpm numbers , was never issued . |
| 14 | But even in the Sixties , during her hard-up days as a young Broadway dancer , before she found fame in Rowan and Martin 's Laugh-In , she promised herself she would never , ever rely on a man for her money . |
| 15 | During her three days working in the Toronto Skydome she made friends with an athlete who now writes to her in Chinese . |
| 16 | Evidently the garden had been badly neglected during her ten days ' absence . |
| 17 | During their four days in Edinburgh , in addition to their time at Torness , they will be briefed about Scotland by staff from the US Consulate-General , visit the Castle and learn about Scottish dancing . |
| 18 | Valley Parade 's answer to the dream team never linked up during their playing days — Pearson had moved on from Manchester United to West Ham before Stapleton , Ireland 's most capped player , joined the Old Trafford side in the early eighties . |
| 19 | The group formed part of the twenty seven strong Sales Training Course run by Stoddard Templeton which visited Lyles in May during their three days of instruction . |
| 20 | During his two days in Mongolia Kaifu held talks with Prime Minister Dashiyn Byambasuren and with President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat . |
| 21 | He is also presenting books to Easington District Council and Durham County Council during his 10 day holiday from his home near Lake Constance , in Germany , where he is a music and language lecturer . |
| 22 | North , who had himself been convicted in May 1989 of three Iran-contra felonies [ see pp. 36649-50 ] , was reluctant to give evidence against his former superior and , during his four days in the witness box , he clashed repeatedly with chief prosecuting counsel Dan K. Webb . |
| 23 | Laing 's desire to reduce physical exertion stemmed from personal experience during his early days on the shop floor . |
| 24 | The man who ran the office was Michael Colborne , a chief petty officer whom Charles had become friendly with aboard HMS Norfolk , during his early days at sea . |
| 25 | In 1945 , Lucian Oldershaw , with E. C. Bentley a member of the History Eighth at St Paul 's when it was first created in July 1893 , recalled Thomas at school and during his early days at Oxford : |
| 26 | They are said to have reproved Jesus during his early days of preaching in Galilee . |
| 27 | During his early days in Poitiers a substantial number of his poems were written for Radegund , sometime wife of the Merovingian king Chlothar I , and founder and inmate of the abbey of the Holy Cross in Poitiers . |
| 28 | Players who visited him during his final days in the Walton Centre gave him an Everton shirt which was later buried with him . |
| 29 | Dharsono was released from jail exactly a month after President Suharto had spoken of the need " to promote human rights " during his National Day speech . |
| 30 | Can my right hon. Friend find time during his busy day to congratulate the management and staff of Rover on the fact that over the past 12 months not one single minute of production time has been lost through industrial disputes ? |