Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] day [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sails , well we had one or two sailing ships in my early days come up but the majority are steam . |
| 2 | There was a lengthy pause before he admitted , ‘ An unhappy experience in my younger days made me too dogmatic about certain ideas that became stuck in my head . |
| 3 | Outside my living day stretched on to poach the night while I cried . |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , my own day started pretty well , ’ Pink said . |
| 5 | It seemed like my last day had come . |
| 6 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | County cricket in its early days appealed to both middle and working classes , many of whom enjoyed what we would now call ‘ flexi-time ’ . |
| 9 | Woodhouse had made its reputation by setting the trends , not following them , and in its early days carried labels such as YSL and shirt specialist Verte Valle . |
| 10 | It is obvious from these figures that the BDDA in its early days did not represent the deaf and dumb population , but that the Association merely brought together the elite of educated deaf-mutes with some hearing people — mainly missioners and a few others with personal interest in the spiritual and social welfare of the deaf and dumb . |
| 11 | During her three days working in the Toronto Skydome she made friends with an athlete who now writes to her in Chinese . |
| 12 | It may be that one of my children might want one or two of them , but nobody these days has the houses to hang pictures in the way Bunny and I have done , and I 've always known that the public will eventually enjoy them . |
| 13 | She straightened her shoulders , perhaps she had done enough for today , mam would be getting restless wanting a bit of attention after her long day spent mostly alone . |
| 14 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 15 | It grew rapidly , however : the 120 employees of its first days had become 261 at the accession of Catherine II in 1762 . |
| 16 | Consequently he was obliged to persuade a driver and his regular fireman to agree to give up their mid day finish to work the extra special . |
| 17 | ANGUISH : It 's all too much for one dealer yesterday as the futures market is hit with its busiest day involving deals worth £243billion |
| 18 | To her surprise , they agreed that she could continue to work for PW three days a week , leaving her two days to work on the business . |
| 19 | Dorothy Eden , one of the best and most successful writers of romantic suspense novels , used in her earlier days to start her whole book from a name she had chosen , or that had perhaps chosen her by striking a note from the wind-harp in her mind — Seraphine , Blandina , Hariot . |
| 20 | BR 's motive-power policy was rapidly turned on its head with the abandonment of two sacred principles : sectorisation saw the end of the common-user policy for locomotives and passenger multiple units : and no longer was it accepted that life-expired main-line cast-offs should spend their last days propping up secondary services . |
| 21 | She used to spend her whole day locked in a basement room with her sister-in-law and the four young children they had between them . |
| 22 | It took them three days to get there via Dover , Calais , a train to Paris , and finally a coach to Monte Carlo . |
| 23 | No well they 've , I 've had them three days look . |
| 24 | It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible . |
| 25 | Almost everyone these days seems to be in favour of developing students ' critical abilities , from the students themselves , through the academic community , to the government , employers and professional bodies . |
| 26 | Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world . |
| 27 | That gives you three days to acclimatise . |
| 28 | This will help them combat the tactics of the batsmen who these days look more like knights of old with their protective clothing . |
| 29 | The search for a new chief , to be led by Akers and managed by IBM 's board nominating and executive compensation committee , which is chaired by James Burke , a former chairman of Johnson & Johnson , will be conducted both within and outside the company , and IBM has given itself 90 days to complete the process . |
| 30 | Take you all day going all round with a twelfth would n't it . |