Example sentences of "in my [adj] day " in BNC.
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1 | I got to know Rosemary before Basil ; she was my Art Adviser in my earliest days of teaching and how fortunate I was to have such encouragement , support and stimulation . |
2 | And I came across it in my young day when I had no business , but I begged it out them . |
3 | I killed the wolves myself in my young days . |
4 | In my young days , the western stream was known as the River Doe and the eastern the River Twiss : there was no apparent reason for the name Doe , but the name Twiss seemed to be derived from Twisleton Scar and Twisleton Hall below which it flowed . |
5 | The old smells were there , ‘ Itma ’ had been superseded by ‘ Coronation Street ’ in the Rest Room , and there were ‘ No Smoking ’ signs — unheard of in my young days — but one thing was missing . |
6 | Not that in my young days there were never some wild moments . |
7 | I well remember going with her to buy a new hat ( we all wore hats in my young days ) . |
8 | It was n't like that in my young days . |
9 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
10 | I remember in my young days — ’ She stopped and for a moment they sat quietly , both thinking of past Christmases when their parents and grandparents had been alive . |
11 | I 've often reflected how I might have reacted in my early days as a Christian to such advice . |
12 | I got more letters on that than anything else in my early days . |
13 | In my early days , I had merely assumed , since I knew so little of industry , that I was employed to achieve certain ends . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . " |
16 | Sails , well we had one or two sailing ships in my early days come up but the majority are steam . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Yes they have , very special gear in , in breathing apparatus and protective clothing , er which I did n't have in my early days , I mean breathing apparatus was just beginning to be used . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | There are many different buildings in my usual day . |
23 | In my latter days at school , this old hall became the gym , and we had a new , much larger hall with room for chairs . |
24 | This was in my earlier days when carrying out general duties ashore . |
25 | My diary , in my pre-anorexic days , often refers to a ‘ weight of depression ’ which I felt myself to be carrying around . |
26 | I was generally pressed for time in my few day in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well as it deserved . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | In my older day , okay , I 'll write a book . |
29 | In my childish days I remember I used to fear to touch the little girls ' sleeves ; so it is now . |
30 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |