Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then comes Phaleron , and the best harbour of all , the three-bayed Piraeus , safe to use only after Athens had taken Salamis , opposite , from Megara in the days of Solon . |
| 2 | Paul made a very happy marriage with Muriel Ezra , the widow of a distinguished zoologist , who built up his own private menagerie in Surrey in the days before safari parks proliferated in the English countryside . |
| 3 | Eden Hall was the family seat of the Cumbrian family of Musgrave since the days of King Henry VI ; the ‘ Luck ’ is an heirloom , a beautifully enamelled and engraved glass goblet with Moorish-style decorative work on its surfaces . |
| 4 | Pliny knew of the Burgundians , and Orosius thought that they had reached the Rhineland in the days of the emperor Tiberius , receiving their name because they lived in settlements called burgi . |
| 5 | Difficult as it is to summarize so majestic a body of work as that produced by Hailey in the days when he reigned supreme as the Colonial Office 's oracle on Africa , it seems fair to say that the main impression to be derived from it is of his anxiety to avoid committing the British government to any course of action which might prove to be irreversible . |
| 6 | Edward , the heir to the throne , used the Geneville castle at Ludlow in the days after his escape from custody in 1265 . |
| 7 | It occurred therefore to one of " the Teutons " who came over with Daniel Höchstetter in the days of Royal Bess , that guineas and half-guineas might be coined without anyone being the wiser . |
| 8 | retired at the end of October after a 26-year career with the Company which started in the accounts department at Key Street in the days when staff sat on stools at high , sloping desks . |
| 9 | Those of us who remember the horrid cruelties applied to Frank Williams in the days when he was generally considered ‘ Wanker Williams ’ , an outsider with no chance to make good , can remember how it felt for Emerson to climb down off his mountain and to try to make good in a changing and by then wholly different world . |
| 10 | Of course , you only get UB for the days you are unemployed . |
| 11 | A curving drive amongst trees leads up to the side of the lake and continues thence along the edge of the water in beautiful surroundings richly endowed with lovely trees planted by the Farrers in the days long ago when woodlands were intended for ornamental display and were allowed to develop to full maturity with no thought of slaughtering them for profit . |
| 12 | Indeed , they would find the relationship even closer than companionship with Jesus in the days of his flesh . |
| 13 | It is still not generally appreciated just how serious a threat to the peace of Europe was posed by the situation developing in north-east Italy and southern Austria in the days immediately following the end of the European war in 1945 . |
| 14 | They came in their best clothes as if it were a Sunday from the days before the church was closed . |
| 15 | Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king , behold there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem , saying , ‘ Where is he that is born King of the Jews ? |
| 16 | It had passed to Evelina in the days when a Burne-Jones was not worth twopence and goodness knew what Evelina had done with it . |
| 17 | Is he further aware that he carries the good wishes of the party behind him in the difficult few months to come and should go to the talks in great confidence , knowing of the great contribution that this country has made to Europe since the days of William Pitt ? |
| 18 | In the 1760s improvements were made to Patrington Haven , a small port on the river Humber in the days before much of the land was reclaimed , and this facilitated the export of corn from South Holderness to places like the growing towns of the West Riding . |
| 19 | Another who was passionately fond of self-effacement was Sir George Goldie , the man who ruled Nigeria in the days of the Niger Company , and whom some credited with being the original progenitor of Indirect Rule . |
| 20 | Ever photogenic , Castle Street in Farnham in the days when it was possible to capture the scene without any parked cars . |
| 21 | WAS born and brought up in Edinburgh during the days when Scotland 's capital merited its ancient title , ‘ Auld Reekie ’ . |
| 22 | It is entirely dominated by old comrades of 77-year-old Erich Honecker from the days when , after 1945 , he built his powerbase . |
| 23 | I have mentioned relative to the ignorance , the immorality , the grossness , the obscenity , the drunkenness , the dirtiness , and depravity of the middling and even of a large portion of the better sort of tradesmen , the artisans , and the journeymen tradesmen of London in the days of my youth , may excite a suspicion that the picture I have drawn is a caricature . |
| 24 | Erm of which there , of course is erm impeccable logic er you might think well there are n't any coal mines in Didcot , which of course there are n't , but Didcot is actually a railway junction as I mentioned and in fact it 's on the main line from the midlands erm and they can get coal in from the Midlands very easily er it 's on the main line er also from South Wales and they 're getting co getting coal from , from er South Wales in the days when they built Didcot power station they still had coal m m mines in South Wales , so this was an obvious place to locate a large coalfired power station . |
| 25 | First , you follow the Adenauer Allee out of Bonn through the suburb of Bad Godesberg where Neville Chamberlain came for his chats with Herr Hitler in the days before Munich . |
| 26 | Neddy Fawcett , who was farming at West Birk Hatt in the days before it was flooded when the new reservoir opened , was very good with mechanical things and used to come over and try to make it start . |