Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] days when " in BNC.
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1 | The first prisoners had come here in the days when the state of war between England and Germany was still largely theoretical . |
2 | Athletics , too , had moved away from the days when black sportsmen in the USA were forbidden to compete against whites . |
3 | I used to walk between the two parts of the building — that is between my studio/study and the main house — and stare up at the pulley that hangs over the hall , an imitation of the one that hung there in the days when a real miller hoisted his sacks of grain . |
4 | This had been proposed in an earlier draft which was condemned by journalists as seeking to introduce " curbs … such as journalists did not experience even in the days when the CPSU was all-powerful " . |
5 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
6 | ‘ The pattern of construction has changed considerably since the days when Lithgow was laid out . |