Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This ranks among one of my greatest days . |
| 3 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 4 | I have got erm a crazy mixed up erm if you like , combination ; erm one who has a precarious reputation for doing some strange things on the track , Andrea , and it 's ironical really because erm when at the end of erm my racing days , which seventy eight , seventy nine with the erm Malborough team , erm Andrea was a young kid coming through . |
| 5 | My dossing days are over . ’ |
| 6 | My brave days are over and I now ride for relaxation rather than a fall . |
| 7 | It looks as if my galloping days are over in it ? |
| 8 | As I escorted Marinka to the Oasis Arena in the torrential rain , the scene of mimose reminded me of my halcyon days at . |
| 9 | My few days were intermediate — cloudy , rough , with the reef and turbid water yet to fully recover . |
| 10 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |
| 11 | I was glad to hear the accent , for it reminded me of my exciting days in Northern Ireland , recounted elsewhere . |
| 12 | Although I knew most of these countries from my naval days , the perspective one gains visiting the coasts of a country as a sailor is very different from the view of the businessman . |
| 13 | ‘ My kicking days are over . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And I think this is regrettable , and certainly at variance with my early days . |
| 16 | I 've often reflected how I might have reacted in my early days as a Christian to such advice . |
| 17 | I got more letters on that than anything else in my early days . |
| 18 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 19 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
| 20 | I shall always be grateful to Mr Rocke for his ready help and understanding during my early days at Thurnscoe . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . " |
| 23 | Sails , well we had one or two sailing ships in my early days come up but the majority are steam . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | My early days at were not quite the era of the quill pen but at Ipswich and Rotherhithe , London SE16 , we had chest high desks with stools to match . |
| 28 | This possibly had something to do with my early days in Mespot , where the Wapiti had huge doughnut wheels and literally you could choose a very restricted area and get the aircraft down . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |