Example sentences of "[art] [adj] days [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angie recalls how , in the high-flying days of MainMan , David turned to using drugs and how their marriage started to crumble . |
| 2 | The sunshine when she landed at Heathrow was a cruel reminder to Alyssia of the lazy days in France she had thought would never end . |
| 3 | Compared with recent serious journalistic books on science , such as the Eight Days of Creation and The Soul of a New Machine , Scientific Temperaments is a light confection . |
| 4 | It is often the case that the highest ambitions can be born in the darkest days of defeat . |
| 5 | Patrick decided to spend three of the intervening days with Timmy . |
| 6 | But there were those who remembered the cruel days of Aenarion 's court in Nagarythe and they doubted that any child who grew up there could be entirely wholesome . |
| 7 | He tried to tell himself that it did n't matter , that you could find the same situation all over the West End ; back in the long-lost days of sweetness and light he could remember taking his wife to a performance of Jesus Christ , Superstar when it had gone through so many cast changes that no-one was even bothering to count , and what a bunch of wankers they 'd been . |
| 8 | The 12 days between April 15th and April 26th were set aside for a ‘ points of light celebration of service ’ . |
| 9 | We 've classified 12 types of present-giver — one for each of the 12 days of Christmas , plus health hazard rankings , with top scores of 10 . |
| 10 | What happened to the 12 days of Christmas ? |
| 11 | Financial consultant Richard Bateman totted up all the gifts in the song The 12 Days of Christmas to come up with the hefty bill . |
| 12 | During the 12 days of Christmas , women stopped spinning only to start again on Distaff Day . |
| 13 | During the 30 days of training at Wokingham , Pete and Andrew became the best of buddies and Wendy accepted a delighted Andrew 's marriage proposal . |
| 14 | The sudden disturbing plunge into the jungle in the cloying heat of the Saigon River had made her more intensely aware of her body than at any time since the fevered days of adolescence . |
| 15 | The Justices of the Forest were to drive the deer from all disafforested districts into the remaining forests during the forty days after disafforestment : after the expiration of that time places put out of the forest were to be exempt from the operation of the Forest law . |
| 16 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 17 | He 'd been conscious of her in the old days of course , although he kept quiet about that . |
| 18 | As Mr Jarvis observed ‘ The old days of teachers being trusted to be professional and to show commitment have gone . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ In the old days of walking and bicycles , you would walk down from your house to the village and stop at every house on the way for talk . |
| 20 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 21 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My dear fellow , it is but seldom that one has the pleasure of meeting a friend from the old days in Petersburg , but I chanced to be in Vienna recently , and have heard much about you from mutual acquaintances . |
| 23 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 24 | " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . " |
| 25 | The file records he 's strangled people with his bare hands in the old days in Bucharest . |
| 26 | In the old days in Shetland ( and still today in Faroe ) this meant the animals could be driven on to a beach and killed . |
| 27 | The apostles , the folk who had known Jesus in the old days in Galilee , Stephen , Paul ; all are ‘ witnesses of these things ; and so is the Holy Spirit whom God had given to those who obey him ’ ( Acts 5:32 ) . |
| 28 | ON ONE of the few days with sunshine recently I was shambling through Cavendish Square in the West End of London . |
| 29 | Sitting near the window , with its view of the fire escape , smoking a joint he 'd bought in an amusement arcade , he wrote in a notebook about visiting Spanish towns , and the beaches , then about the few days in London because his imagination ran out on Spain with the end of the brochure about flamenco dancing and bullfights , and because what he was doing was more immediate . |
| 30 | ‘ I felt there was a real danger that we would turn full circle and go back to the dark days under Revie when the manager 's indecision was final . ’ |