Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the days " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The name originated from the days when this house belonged to the local policeman . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | Perhaps Mrs Longhill had already written during the days Ruth had been confined to bed . |
| 6 | Many of the older packages were written in the days when memory was a pricey commodity and only allow small models to be created . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The villa had been built in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent by a Baderini banker . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |
| 12 | ‘ All things I have seen in the days of my vanity : there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness , and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness . ’ |
| 13 | Cane syrup is a light treacle , first made in the days of the plantations when sugar was refined by boiling it in huge , black , iron vats . |
| 14 | They were rarely made in the days before the first Enclosure Acts . |
| 15 | But there is more to be said about Lawrence ; much more than was usually said in the days when he was celebrated as a prophet of straight liberation , and more than is oft en said when he is castigated from the vantage point of contemporary sexual politics . |
| 16 | Much progress has been made since the days of the Chicago School in terms of understanding the biological and instinctive bases of individual and social behaviour . |
| 17 | It does n't though , and the photocopiers are good enough to pass official muster , how long can it be before we have the sort of crisis of confidence in our physical currency not seen since the days of the coin-clipping Tudors ? |
| 18 | How could anyone forget some of the spectacular effects she designed , the likes of which have not been seen since the days when Hank Bosch was head of Graphics ? |
| 19 | But in September 1015 he appeared off Sandwich again , to initiate fourteen months of campaigning , largely against Æthelred 's son Edmund Ironside , and of an intensity not seen since the days of Alfred . |
| 20 | In Australia , he rewrote the history books in a display not seen since the days of Jim Clark and Graham Hill — they helped revolutionise Indycar racing with their rear-engined Lotus Fords — when he started from pole position , won the race and smashed the lap record in his debut race . |
| 21 | If the baroque instrumentation ( Buck gets to play his beloved mandolin on several occasions ) and the special guest spots are REM 's way of breaking free from the expectations of others , it seems unlikely to dilute the adulation they 've enjoyed or endured since the days of ‘ Document ’ at least . |
| 22 | But School life was not narrowly academic : excursions had featured since the days of Gilkes and the 1929 visit to Port Sunlight . |
| 23 | Heavily drawn from the days when rock writers wore leather trousers and believed that rock would save the world . |
| 24 | The Celtic fields ; Iron Age and Roman farms , all still detectable from the air ; the Dark Age village along the river bank with its ghostly , ghastly cemetery on the hill where a woman was buried alive and her skeletal fingers dug into the rough chalk sides of her grave ; nearby Winchester , the old Saxon capital ; the warpath at the top of my lane ; the mill I live in , founded in the days of Alfred 's great grandson , and reinforcements for the Conqueror 's victorious army trotting past the site of our bus shelter . |
| 25 | There are 800 professionals round the world now compared with the days 20 years ago when they struggled to find enough pros to compete for the world championship . |
| 26 | An exciting , new up-market Indian restaurant based on the days of the ‘ Raj period ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ My love , my love , ’ and was flooded by the days she had called him that . |
| 28 | This week saw the second of their massive Kinnockathons , which set out to prove at vast length and with exquisite tedium what Punch first established in May last year , to wit : that both Hansard and the cuttings files are full of daft remarks uttered in the days when the windbag was still a firebrand . |
| 29 | As to the application of legal procedures deriving from Napoleonic law , it is perhaps worth considering that arrangements formulated in the days of the horse and cart may not be appropriate to a supersonic age . |
| 30 | Taken together the results from the in vivo and in vitro studies summarised above clearly indicate that the epithelial absorptive capacity of the rat jejunum is appreciably reduced during the days preceding the expulsion of the parasite . |