Example sentences of "[pron] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 2 | To find out what the food was like in the RAF today I asked the Catering Branch to tell me how things were different from my days ( the 1950's , I 'm not that old ! ) . |
| 3 | If anything were to happen to my old dosey I 'm afraid I 'd live out my days in peace . ’ |
| 4 | Sensing , or knowing , that my days in my native land were numbered , he asked me if I needed foreign currency . |
| 5 | ‘ Lord , make me to know mine end and the measure of my days what it is … |
| 6 | ‘ Then you 're Catholics , ’ I informed them , thinking back to my days in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | However hard I work and struggle for the future there are ever snares to catch me and sometimes I see no end to it and think myself doomed to pass my days in toil and nothing else . |
| 8 | I will end my days in my own country and that is certain . |
| 9 | And I could wish my days to be |
| 10 | I could read them in my days of youngness , but not now . |
| 11 | My days revolved inevitably around bathtime , nappy changes , feeds and my ‘ mothers meetings ’ as they became known in our household . |
| 12 | Take my moments and my days — |
| 13 | A ‘ cell ’ group of colleagues in my days at St. John 's College also proved an important means of personal review and direction for me and other colleagues . |
| 14 | Although I did not know it , my encounter with Gladstone Murray and Ernie Bushnell in February was beginning to bear fruit , and my days as newspaperman cum radio programme director were numbered . |
| 15 | ‘ Once Cunningham arrived as boss , ’ Hughie once said , ‘ I knew my days were numbered . ’ |
| 16 | The Fleet Ditch here forms the boundary of the College ground … we , Students , in my days , now drawing near to seventy years since , too often left the study of Anatomy , during the absence of Mr Vines , to try our powers as Athletes by jumping over , not , however , infrequently into , the Ditch — unto a narrow road on the other side — the frontage to some half-dozen cottages . |
| 17 | I called in at the office on one of my days off , to see what was doing , and found that a posting had come through for me to report forthwith to Group Headquarters at Huntingdon . |
| 18 | It was bad enough to have to spend my days acting as occupational therapist to a bunch of linguistic basket-cases without having my social acquaintances dropping in to witness my degradation . |
| 19 | So if I 'd still been giving Clive the best part of my days , occasions for dalliance would have been rare and risky . |
| 20 | I do hope the senders do not mind my reproducing them , but they certainly brightened Mike 's and my days as we slogged through the sorting and despatching process : |
| 21 | ‘ I want to spend the rest of my days with you . ’ |
| 22 | I can imagine ending my days in a lovely Georgian house in the Paragon or Cornwallis Crescent , gazing at this wonderful view . ’ |
| 23 | It had been an exercise without much in the way of results , but then many of my days were like that , and it was only by knowing the normal that the abnormal , when it happened , could be spotted . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought I 'd just spend my days messing around with nothing to do , ’ says that 17-year-old . |
| 25 | Whilst in going to the abbey , I should be exchanging one kind of prison for another , she told herself , I should no longer have to pass my days amongst the remnants of the court ! |
| 26 | I realized then that my days with the Scottish Liberal Party were numbered and with much sadness wrote out a letter of resignation . |
| 27 | But once he is dead Emeth meets Aslan and falls at his feet in instinctive adoration , as in terror , ‘ for the Lion … will know that I have served Tash all my days and not him ’ . |
| 28 | That week in Abu Dhabi my days were spent beside the pool under a shade umbrella , with my books and notes at my side . |
| 29 | Nigel felt he 'd like to stay in the area , and I , who always imagined I 'd end my days in Brighton , yielded . |
| 30 | An ex-Marxian socialist in post-war Oxford , he was to avow as late as 1957 , in an address to the Fabian Society called Socialism and the Intellectuals , that he had voted Labour in every election since 1945 , and ‘ unless something very unexpected happens , I shall vote Labour to the end of my days — however depraved the Labour candidate may be , and however virtuous his opponent . ’ |