Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] days when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The word originally denoted the many single days when the labourer might break from his toil to go to mass and celebrate a saint in other , mundane ways ; as , in the dull prose of the twentieth century , on a bank holiday . |
| 3 | In a way , the fat lady doctor turned sex on to its head and in those prepermissive days when no woman appeared on screen showing more than a couple of inches of cleavage , it was enough . |
| 4 | But Llewellyn 's retainers with Twiston-Davies and Tim Forster , plus attractive rides for David Nicholson and Nick Gaselee , make those dark days when the phone never rang seem a long way off . |
| 5 | A grey day in a cold April , one of those winter's-end days when the land looks exhausted and worn and it seems like all the colour is gone from the world . |
| 6 | On those rare days when the weather has run out of rain and the sun has driven away the clouds , the wrong packed lunch can be just as disastrous . |
| 7 | In respect of these geophysical conditions there are increased chances of misfortune occurring on certain unfavourable days when the functioning of human responses is affected . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the summertime , on bright warm days when the sun was high in the sky , Endill would help her weed and tend the vegetables . |