Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [prep] [art] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is entirely dominated by old comrades of 77-year-old Erich Honecker from the days when , after 1945 , he built his powerbase . |
| 8 | 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 . |