Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His powerful shooting , sometimes from long range , was spectacular and effective and we do well to remember that Albert played in the days when the leather ball grew heavier and heavier , soaking up any moisture there may have been in or on the pitch and possibly finishing up weighing several pounds . |
| 6 | He played in the days when the maximum wage was in force for professional soccer players and , unlike his modern counterparts , never grew rich on the game . |
| 7 | This happened in the days before Juvenile Courts and it must have been a terrifying experience to be taken into the Court as a seven-year-old to be tried . |
| 8 | What happened in the days before freezers I mean well like going back to this you know when folk did n't have power . |
| 9 | What happened to the days of bank employees being quick with figures ? |
| 10 | WHATEVER happened to the days when cricketers dressed in white , sported smart caps , and cursed catches in the deep that came out of the sun ? |
| 11 | Contracts were agreed today , less than a week after Oxford 's last race this term , which was in sharp contrast to this season when problems arose with the days of the opening of the nineteen ninety season . |
| 12 | The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication . |
| 13 | The hall had always seemed as unfriendly as an abandoned church — it belonged to the days of Lizzie 's strict attention and Twomey 's quiet , dignified footsteps . |
| 14 | Beaucens , which is almost exactly facing Saint-Savin on this eastern slope , though at a lesser altitude , has the ideally romantic ruins of an old towered castle plus keep , where the local chieftains , the viscounts of Lavedan , lived in the days of their prosperity . |
| 15 | Even that very first night , at that party at the Estwicks ’ place , you were wishing we lived in the days when a man could keep his mistress hidden away . ’ |
| 16 | The climb-down by the pro-mining countries came in the wake of dramatic reversals of position by Germany and Japan , which announced in the days leading up to the agreement that they would support the prohibition of mining . |
| 17 | ‘ We also talked about the days before Flodden — the doings of the late King and the gossip of the court . ’ |
| 18 | John Batstone , secretary of the Teesside-based North-East Coast Pension Campaign Committee , said : ‘ We hope the weight of pressure will make British Steel realise that they are being rather immoral in disposing of the surplus , which they inherited from the days of nationalisation . |
| 19 | She urged on the days until the chance o f their transfer away , she wrote waspy letters to her mother three times a week , and whenever possible she badgered her Yuri to take her to the shops at Pot'ma . |
| 20 | In the Spring issue of the magazine , a correspondent reminisced about the days when she collected for ‘ black babies ’ . |
| 21 | Liz had a calendar and she crossed off the days in black ink . |
| 22 | He thought of the days when he had a mother , and friends , and beautiful things in his life . |
| 23 | She thought of the days when art was a rich man 's pastime and voluptuous whores took the back stairs to Burne-Jones ' studio to be recreated in the image of Cleopatra for tuppence ha'penny an hour . |
| 24 | Then he [ Abdulkerim ] died in the days of the reign of Sultan Bayazid Khan . " |
| 25 | His widow reminisced on the days of her children 's upbringing . |
| 26 | I think that perhaps some people are still looking for the Great White Hope , as they did in the days of John L. Sullivan , the first black World Heavyweight boxing champion . |
| 27 | To questions about tax and public services , the public responded as it did in the days of Thatcher : by denying her creed of the Rich Samaritan and countering with approval for self-sacrifice and public services . |
| 28 | This remained the leitmotif of a torrent of radio , television and newspaper interviews Heseltine gave in the days following his resignation . |
| 29 | However , the mainly peaceable daily demonstrations for democratic reform , which had brought tens of thousands on to the streets in the capital and other centres [ see pp. 38277 ; 38324 ] for the wave of strikes and demonstrations launched on June 10 ] , continued in the days following Razanamasy 's appointment . |
| 30 | He did n't mind what Jack knew about him , within reason , that is , although he had ceased to confide in him as absolutely as he had in the days when they passed through Kingsmarkham Primary School together . |