Example sentences of "days went [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was seeing Hector Henderson , and more and more as the days went on found that she needed him , his simplicity and his jolliness . |
| 2 | Most important of all , she thought , as she picked over the problems of his character , as the days went on he seemed to be so much steadier , so much easier in his own skin . |
| 3 | But as the days went on she found herself working with him more and more frequently , delegating the routine tasks to the general office on the ground floor . |
| 4 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 5 | In which you played a lot of leading parts , as the days went by . |
| 6 | As the days went by , I did start to try the newspapers and job centres again — anywhere in fact that I thought might find me either a job or a home . |
| 7 | As the days went by and the busy little transport box seemed to be making only slow way into the huge heap of lime , he no longer eased it out on the blade of the shovel for the wind to take it but scattered it anywhere out of sight , anywhere to be rid of it . |
| 8 | So , in a curious lurid calm which could not last and yet , it seemed , could not end , the days went by . |
| 9 | As the days went by , Franca cherished and nourished and developed her suffering , unable to envisage any change or any plan — any machine into which so much relentless force might be fed . |
| 10 | Two more days went by and my little Angels left the slate . |
| 11 | Even so , she was overcome by depression which increased as the days went by . |
| 12 | As the days went by she moaned more and more about the mess the wood caused . |
| 13 | As the days went by , his behaviour and thoughts became more and more bizarre . |
| 14 | Then another two or three days went by , and my brother 's wife telephoned from Bakovka ( where there was a dacha containing a collection of pictures by some young artists , along with a great many works and drawings by Anatoly Zverev ) : ‘ Fire ! ! ! |
| 15 | Another two or three days went by , and again the telephone rang . |
| 16 | The days went by and Alice did not phone her mother . |
| 17 | The truth was that as the days went by and the heavy rain showed no sign of slackening for very long it became clear that something very frightening had begun to happen . |
| 18 | He could sense that there was no harm in the Sweeper , and as the days went by and still Minch did not come back , he seemed to sense too that the Sweeper cared and was on his side in wishing for her safe return . |
| 19 | The days went by , unchanging . |
| 20 | The door was pushed open and Zak Smythe , who grew more benign as the days went by , appeared . |
| 21 | They also feel that the balance of argument tipped in our favour as the days went by . |
| 22 | Days went by like this , Sunday and Monday and Tuesday . |
| 23 | The more days went by , the more likely it became that the end of the police search would be the discovery of a corpse . |
| 24 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 25 | As the days went by , however , and no further incident was reported , he began to relax . |
| 26 | He was to find himself repeating this often as the days went by . |
| 27 | She called them girls but many were women whose working days went back to the Utility dresses and khaki battle-dress . |