Example sentences of "[art] [adj] days [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Lee from ENERGIZE thinks Electro is on its way back , and could speak for many hours about the halcyon days before Electro meant toddlers break-dancing in the streets , title-dropping classics like Man Parrish 's ‘ Hip Hop Be Bop ’ , early Mantronix , and Shannon . |
| 2 | The high days and holidays in Cyprus are celebrated whenever possible with a colourful barbecue . |
| 3 | I was always surprised in the old days that Margaret did n't carve ) , and a large potato in its jacket . |
| 4 | Mrs Browning likes to have me with her now , no other person will do , and we talk of the old days and Miss Henrietta slipping off to Regent 's Park to walk with Mr Surtees Cook and the squeezes she loved to hold in Wimpole Street when her father was away . |
| 5 | Whilst this may have been commonplace in the old days as vendors moved from technology to technology there is little need for it now , as Monotype are adequately demonstrating . |
| 6 | During the few days before Blundy came across to Belfast , Paisley contacted a legal friend who in turn suggested to Vincent Browne of the Sunday Independent , a Dublin newspaper , that he examine the Black case . |
| 7 | In the few days that Blake had known the Doctor , he had never seen him fall asleep . |
| 8 | The first is that initial support of 60% is not high if the policy turns sour — if , for example , a war lasted more than the few days or weeks that Mr Bush seems to think it will take . |
| 9 | Darren had been a poor feeder even in the early days and mother remembered spending hours with him trying to get him to take the bottle . |
| 10 | In the following days and weeks my mother and I took turns to visit him every day ; we realized how much our presence meant to him . |
| 11 | Their days of cruelty are numbered and the fewer days before fox hunting is banned the better . |
| 12 | Noah 's faith was persistent ; through the taunts of unbelievers as he worked ; through the rainstorm ; through the tragedy of knowing that men and women were dying in the flood ; through the long days and nights waiting for the next stage , as the waters went down . |
| 13 | It was a lesson learned from hard experience at other clubs , and one clearly illustrated by Arsenal 's own past , in the troubled days before Chapman took over . |
| 14 | The first days and weeks of my new job were difficult both for me and for my employers , because my English , when it came to the test , was still very elementary . |
| 15 | Although most people were relieved that the waiting game was over , the first days and nights were nerve-racking . |
| 16 | The Yorkshire Car Collection will be open from 28 March and thereafter between 10.00am and 5.00pm on the same days as Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is operating , as detailed in this leaflet . |
| 17 | In the two days since Patrick had left the house with the maid , Katherine had had her men take London apart looking for them . |
| 18 | And she needed that sort of help ; because although nothing had happened in the four days since Adam had returned from Starr Hills , the nights were becoming more than she could bear . |
| 19 | He had his beloved wife Helen by his side in the last days and hours of his life . |
| 20 | ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything . |
| 21 | But they refreshed me , sustained me through the subsequent days and weeks , like water in a camel 's hump . |
| 22 | The American cruised the Solent for a few days while Mark was tying up the loose ends , and returned to the States without paying another visit to his office . |
| 23 | There may then be a break of a few days while participants work to devise a training session . |
| 24 | A few days before discharge is expected , any services required are arranged and any drugs , dressings and appliances ( e.g. Mr Reynolds ' stoma equipment ) are ordered . |
| 25 | Neither had the House Government Operations sub-committee in Washington which , a few days before Coleman was publicly denounced in a CNN broadcast , opened hearings into allegations that the DEA was involved in the fate of Flight 103 . |
| 26 | But a few days before Khrushchev was summoned back to Moscow from the Black Sea for his political execution , Mr Voronov received an unexpected invitation to go hunting with Brezhnev . |
| 27 | A few days before Monica died , they stood together by the open window , looking towards the sunset . |
| 28 | Mr Baker 's comments came , however , a few days before Mr Greenspan starts a four-day visit to Moscow . |
| 29 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
| 30 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |