Example sentences of "[adj] days if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well what happened to change in fact this er notion of limited rational wars with the means , ends in balance etcetera , the kind of , of erm halcyon days if you like to which Klausovitz wished to return ? |
| 2 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 3 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 4 | It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast . |
| 5 | I dread to think where the pound would have been in the past few days if I had followed the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 6 | Oh , and I 'd stay out of the swimming pool for a few days if I were you , unless you can keep your head above water . |
| 7 | At this stage the procedures are generally the same as for an ordinary cause and you have 366 days , or 367 days if it is a leap year , to ask the court for an extract decree to be issued . |
| 8 | Erm and it 'll also help us to get the the out of your way , we 'll get out of your hair within five or six days if you give us all the businesses . |
| 9 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 10 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 11 | They 'd have probably given him ninety days if he had the right advice . ’ |
| 12 | He could have seen money in this right off and been leading Dr. Favor on , seeing to make about a month 's wages in three days if he kept all the fares ; and why would n't he ? |
| 13 | ‘ But these days if you 're not in the Premier League you do n't even merit a look . |
| 14 | Mind you , you 've got to be these days if you want to get any work done . |
| 15 | All I needed was 10 pence — which was what you had to pay in those days if you said you came from the previous stop — but I did n't even have that . |
| 16 | And in those days if you were old and if you were poor , … that was the end of the road . |
| 17 | He was what we called a School Board man as well he was , that was his official capacity , and in those days if you were n't at school they used to erm send a man round to see where you were , you know and why were n't you at school ? |
| 18 | But no in those days if you had children er young children at any rate you , you , you never expected to go out to work at all . |
| 19 | He er , Hugh and I used to come up every day do what we could , you see , in those days if you had a stroke you had to lay there till you died . |
| 20 | Some wheats require a period of cold weather and short days if they are to yield well ; these are autumn sown , stand over winter and ripen much earlier than spring-grown varieties . |
| 21 | A good round followed by a poor one often means a missed cut , and it is very difficult to put two rounds together on consecutive days if you have not been used to doing so . |
| 22 | Make your title search four or five days or a week before completion ( five days if you think there may be a pending registration ) , to enable you to complete well within the period of priority that your search gives you — but remember that to gain full protection you must not only complete the purchase within that period , as with unregistered title , but must also within the same period lodge your application to register the transfer or mortgage . |
| 23 | Owners will be required to have their cars repaired within 15 days if they are found to exceed limits . |
| 24 | When the company announced on January 16th that it would close the New York Daily News within 60 days if it could not settle a crippling strike at the newspaper , Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief and the company 's share price soared . |
| 25 | Two days if we 're unlucky . ’ |
| 26 | In an emergency , however , it may refuse to allow contact for up to seven days if it is necessary to do so in order to safeguard or promote the child 's welfare ( s34(6) ) . |