Example sentences of "my [num ord] day " in BNC.

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1 I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal .
2 ‘ It 's only my second day , ’ said Juliet , ‘ and I must dash . ’
3 On my fourth day I went to visit the United Nations .
4 This was my first day in about eight months without my lifeline and I felt horribly alone .
5 My first day at Tropicana was spent in a boat , on the beach , and in the bar .
6 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 .
7 We fixed our first session for the following week , and with a little planning there could be a further session before I went back to Bristol for my first day return since being a resident .
8 ‘ I remember so well my first day .
9 ‘ On my first day I felt so self-conscious , like a country bumpkin . ’
10 ‘ On my first day in corporate finance I was translating for a Japanese MD who was hoping to buy a British company . ’
11 It was the latter who inspired me on my first day at the tech .
12 I remember the sinking feeling still : 1964 , having just moved up to Leeds and my first day at Almscliff — then , and probably still , the best swather of tall poppies in the land .
13 And all on my first day — this is the sport to capture the imagination .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 ‘ 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 ! ’
17 Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event .
18 I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut .
19 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 .
20 I do n't remember what the occasion was — maybe it was my first day at school , or maybe I was staying with my aunt for a few days … ’
21 My first day on the works I was sent off to whitewash a shed all by myself .
22 That was my first day at Lowood .
23 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 .
24 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 . ’
25 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 .
26 Erm I can recall my first day at school .
27 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 .
28 So I thought that there was plenty of time as this is my first day off from work .
29 On my first day at the university I met my teacher , Professor Waldman , who was one of the greatest scientists in the world .
30 I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 .
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