Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fought through the days with relentless activity , aiming to get thoroughly tired , so that she could sleep . |
| 2 | Nor will concession be made to a tendency to weep during the days immediately before her period . |
| 3 | ‘ How one longs for the days of Bishop Heber sometimes ! ’ |
| 4 | Boy as I said lived during the days on sugar , yoghurts , instant coffee and toast ; then every evening the man would cook up a big casserole , one big casserole filled with fish and lots of potatoes , tinned sweetcorn , something like that , and they would eat that together in the kitchen every night at seven o'clock , before the man went off to work — he worked nights you see . |
| 5 | For librarians the title smacked of the days when running a library " was undertaken by a lecturer " in his spare time " ( compare the teacher-librarian in most British secondary schools ) and they resented the possible implications that running a library was not a full-time job . |
| 6 | The flight panel was designed in the days when American firms used to write the names of the instruments on bits of paper , put them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes . |
| 7 | The ample panel ‘ was designed in the days when American firms used to write the name of the instruments on bits of paper , uput them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes ’ . |
| 8 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 9 | The name originated from the days when this house belonged to the local policeman . |
| 10 | It was the waste of national resources and , to a lesser extent , the amount of human suffering in rural Spain , that in the years 1766–73 set off the most remarkable attempt at agrarian reform that Spain was to know until the days of the Second Republic . |
| 11 | Indeed , my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) , in a speech right out of the defeatist book which is kept at the Foreign Office , seemed to declare that a nation with its own currency could not survive in the days of the ecu . |
| 12 | How far he has come since the days in Harry Fischer 's office above the tobacconist 's , with the cosy office jokes and the lunch time beers in the pub ! |
| 13 | But adjudication officers may eventually claim that part-time employment is your normal pattern , and that you should not be entitled to benefit on the days you do n't work because you would not normally expect to be working anyway . |
| 14 | But adjudication officers may eventually claim that part-time employment is your normal pattern , and that you should not be entitled to benefit on the days you do n't work because you would not normally expect to be working anyway . |
| 15 | But adjudication officers may eventually claim that part-time employment is your normal pattern , and that you should not be entitled to benefit on the days you do n't work because you would not normally expect to be working anyway . |
| 16 | If your holiday plan is so tightly organised that it allows for no days off , and no travel delays , it 's time to think again . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the future of her career was a constant background worry as the days and weeks of her appointment at Rummidge ticked away like a taxi meter . |
| 18 | Then if the weather 's OK we can have a walk in the afternoon and reminisce about the days when women stayed at home and looked after their menfolk . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps Mrs Longhill had already written during the days Ruth had been confined to bed . |
| 20 | There were times when he spoke as though he was living in the days of his ancestor , Richard ; regarding himself as a feudal overlord with the power of life and death over his vassals . |
| 21 | Many of the older packages were written in the days when memory was a pricey commodity and only allow small models to be created . |
| 22 | This desirable attitude dated from the days of the Victorian foundation of the system when dispersal of books which had been bought with ratepayers ' money would have seemed like culpable negligence . |
| 23 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 24 | Built in the days when the knocker-up came to each house to wake the workers , miners could chalk the times of their shifts on the slates so that the knocker-up could let them sleep if they were not due for work when he came by . |
| 25 | The villa had been built in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent by a Baderini banker . |
| 26 | Although , the Ministry of Correctional Services claimed that all political prisoners had been released , at least three acknowledged political prisoners were freed in the days following the launch of the campaign . |
| 27 | The system is based on the view , dating from the days of elementary schools , that education is simple . |
| 28 | Look for the bullet holes in the tower dating from the days of the ‘ Roundheads ’ . |
| 29 | Prisons not only carry the weight of a bleak , punitive tradition dating from the days of the British , but the long years of neglect and lack of investment mean that any significant reforms demand a massive injection of resources . |
| 30 | Dry grasslands are in part a relic of early agriculture , dating from the days when pre-historic man undertook the first forest clearances . |