Example sentences of "[art] [adj] days [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
2 | In the old days Luxor and Aswan were favourite winter haunts of a wealthy and leisured class of Europeans . |
3 | Yes but then you see , in the ol in the old days Gordon , I mean , you we you were very fortunate if you got three meals a day and i and whatever you got you were glad of and used to eat it all . |
4 | In the old days Margaret Thatcher , who was instinctively pro-Israeli , kept the Arabism of the Foreign Office under her thumb . |
5 | In the old days Ivan could swallow a bottle of vodka and keep his legs . |
6 | In the early days Yoash was a natural rebel , refusing to make his bed with a proper hospital corner , throwing the blue collection box for the Jewish National Fund at a fellow student , and taking up almost permanent occupancy of the bed-wetters room . |
7 | Erm that was in the early days Charley and Tom did the crossing there for the mails and early in nineteen fifty one no fifty five that we took over the mails . |
8 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |
9 | In the early days Busacher had tried to discourage him . |
10 | In the early days Diana had had some guidance from Sir Richard Attenborough . |
11 | From the early days Kylie was plagued by obscene phone calls and hate mail . |
12 | During the following days Luke 's energy for work seemed boundless , and it took all of Merrill 's concentration to keep abreast of him . |
13 | Mr McNally : ‘ Is it correct that over the two days Mr Anderson was interviewed not one shred of forensic evidence was put to him ? ’ |
14 | The two days Maxim spent ambushing his own followers and then kicked into exile by George . |
15 | Because in the four days Doyle and me were following Latowa , he and Charlie only met twice — once for about thirty seconds , probably just to say hello , and then to go to the Cambridge Hotel . ’ |
16 | I noticed that over the four days Brian expanded on these subjects . |
17 | And now here I am in the morning admitting that every one of the 34 days Madeleine has been alive has seemed like a birthday . |
18 | After a few days Anne decided to go back to school . |
19 | In a few days Riddle 's body might be found and the two women would almost certainly arrange an elaborate funeral which they would attend and shed a few crocodile tears . |
20 | But after a few days Mcduff lost interest . |
21 | For a few days Osman could not bring himself to show his face in public and there was a noticeable lull in hostilities . |
22 | But after a few days Clare began to worry . |
23 | Within a few days Caledonia was in complete agreement : the entire team should take up golf . |