Example sentences of "[adj] day [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In th i in the old days when a firm would come along and pack everything , then they said that , and that was quite true , that they would pack everything and then they would be responsible if damage was done . |
| 2 | Just the way you once wished it could when you were regretting the good old days when a man could keep his unsuitable mistress hidden away , knowing she 'd be there waiting upon his pleasure , whenever he felt the urge and could spare the time to see her . |
| 3 | The quality of translation here , with its simpering rhythms and bathetic language , proves that in this matter the major publishers have moved on hardly at all from the bad old days when the employment of unskilled amateurs or stilted romantics in translation work marred the English publication of some of the great accounts of European mountaineering . |
| 4 | One PC complained at length to a sergeant that the ‘ ground ’ where they both worked had become much quieter ; he looked back with nostalgia to the old days when the ground was much ‘ harder ’ and ‘ you could literally be strolling past a pub and a bloke would come staggering out with a knife in his back … ’ |
| 5 | Some days later the telephone rang . |
| 6 | Some days later the wreckage was found by three shepherds . |
| 7 | Some days when the city heat was too oppressive they drove out into the wild Andalucían countryside , high up into the hills where the air was sweet and pure . |
| 8 | The hostages , who were held for 444 days following the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in September 1979 , were released within minutes of Reagan being sworn in as President on Jan. 21 , 1981 . |
| 9 | What happens during the first few days when a resident comes to live in a Home ? |
| 10 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 11 | There are few days when the weather is so unpleasant that it is impossible to walk ; and even on a rainy day there are often periods when the rain stops . |
| 12 | Todays toil to lower the level of the brook takes a bitmore than one man and his dog , but the necessary speed of the work means thispiece of Georgian architecture will be hidden once more in a few days when the brook 's allowed to flow through here again . |
| 13 | A few days later a group of nobles keen to impress Aurangzeb broke into the quarters where Dara was being kept , a small garden outside the walls of Shahjehanabad towards Nizamuddin . |
| 14 | Before the patient left St Mary 's Hospital , a leading article headed ‘ Penicillium ’ appeared in The Times and a few days later a letter was published from Sir Almroth Wright claiming Fleming as the discoverer of penicillin . |
| 15 | A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post . |
| 16 | A few days later the man came to hospital because his stomach hurt . |
| 17 | A few days later the call came for general mobilisation . |
| 18 | If a few days later the salesman 's firm sends the customer a letter accepting the customer 's offer , the contract is made , not during the visit , but a few days later . |
| 19 | A few days later the doe was seen in the company of her mother and twin sister . |
| 20 | A few days later the sheep-shearing began . |
| 21 | A few days later the Troop were shown aerial photographs of five tugs towing the sinking ship towards a sandbank , where she settled with her cargo of 5,000 tons of copper . |
| 22 | A few days later the emergency evacuation of civilians from Suez to within the camp 's barbed wire perimeter fence began . |
| 23 | So , Bob gets the person who recommended him to recommend me , and a few days later the ticket , and the rule book , arrives : |
| 24 | ‘ A few days later the army assembled outside Edinburgh and a ghostly voice was heard shouting at midnight . |
| 25 | A few days later the father told a project worker , ‘ You know that was the first time I felt I had something to offer to the school . ’ |
| 26 | A few days later the sergeant called to say that the fingerprints on the envelope were not those of the gardener who had been dismissed and that the poor , wronged man had been given back his job . |
| 27 | A few days later the dealer would ring and persuade his client to invest in another stock , on the grounds that for making money a portfolio of several shares was needed . |
| 28 | A few days ago a farmer from Mt Darwin , the ‘ operational area ’ , came to in lunch . |
| 29 | A few days ago a woman woke up just as she was about to be stuffed with the previous day 's New York Post and varnished with embalming fluid by an undertaker . |
| 30 | Just a few days ago the couple posted a Christmas present to their daughter which will arrive in South Africa in the next week . |