Example sentences of "[adj] day [adv] a [noun] " 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 | What happens during the first few days when a resident comes to live in a Home ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A few days ago a farmer from Mt Darwin , the ‘ operational area ’ , came to in lunch . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I could n't spell , and I still do n't know to this day where a paragraph is meant to go . |
| 9 | My relations always come on this day once a year . |
| 10 | It 's always a very sad day when a base closes . |
| 11 | It 's a sad day when a trade union delegate and a member of the Labour Party ca n't pass an opinion . ’ |
| 12 | It 's a sad day when a trade union delegate and a member of the Labour Party ca n't pass an opinion . ’ |
| 13 | They were released the following day when a crowd of 4000 people gathered outside the police station . |
| 14 | Three days later a wind came up and revived the fire which spread to and damaged the plaintiff 's land . |
| 15 | Still , if there were villages in Ireland these days where a man might be in danger of meeting the same ill-fortune face to face , Owen feared he was getting near them . |
| 16 | Abrams ' experience proved that being a solid but unspectacular TV performer is no longer enough in these days where a politician risks instant oblivion unless he can turn in the hustings equivalent of an MTV award winner . |
| 17 | Davies , an arable crop specialist , is one of a team of four ICI Fertilizer experts offering ‘ Nitram ’ users a free computer service which pinpoints the exact day when a farmer should apply his product in order that the crop can best use the nitrogen . |
| 18 | All day long a team of labourers , pale with cement dust , streamed up a plank out of the hold with the bags of cement , like a trail of ants . |
| 19 | Even in the present day when a wife may own part of the matrimonial home and may have a separate job , Scott LJ felt that the tendency was for business decisions to be left to the husband and the main domestic responsibilities to the wife . |
| 20 | Thinking of Rosemary had triggered off memories of that fateful day about a year ago when her brother Sebastian had come seeking her out to say he had just bumped into Rosemary Green — Rosemary Talbot as she now was — in Hazelbury 's high street . |
| 21 | In those days quite a number of Diamond heights were attempted in large shower clouds and cumulo nimbus , whereas very few are flown today because of the unacceptable risks involved . |
| 22 | Ten days ago a police bullet had hit the explosive which Terry Place had hidden in a carrier bag in the tunnel . |
| 23 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 24 | This was meant to be the happy day when a group of volunteers from Berkeley , brought 40 children from the war in Bosnia , to the safety of Gloucestershire . |
| 25 | Just 16 days ago a one-ton van bomb dumped at East London 's massive office development Canary Wharf also failed to explode although experts have been unable to find any fault . |
| 26 | T. D. I was on duty on Lambeth Road junction one day when a feller came up to me and said , ‘ There 's a body floating in the canal . ’ |
| 27 | One agent in North 's employ remembered being over at CIA headquarters one day when a call came in to him from North , ‘ and everybody in the room gave me a dirty look . ’ |
| 28 | Walking one day down a London street , arms outstretched as he day-dreamt that he was Leander swimming the Hellespont , he was accused by a man whose coat he touched of being a pick-pocket . |
| 29 | In Minton 's case the attraction was the opportunity to do one day less a week than he had done at Camberwell or Central . |
| 30 | The protest in Jinan involved a hunger strike , started on 18 November , and several days later a march through the streets by students , calling on the provincial authorities to listen to their complaints . |