Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to remember the old days when we were together , for the first time . ’ |
| 2 | When my oldest son Blair said farewell sadly to the Outer Hebrides and came to work in Aberdeenshire , my wife Ann and I arranged to spend a few days there , fishing and exploring a country that neither of us knew . |
| 3 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 4 | I liked to have a few days out in Middlesbrough , Sunderland or Newcastle but now I ca n't do this anymore and I 'm stuck in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 5 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |
| 6 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 7 | I 've been a Celtic supporter for thirty five years , I 've seen the good days and we 're in the bad days . |
| 8 | I 've got a few days I can go into work disco poster , I 've got ta do this and that . |
| 9 | If you 've got a few days to spare , head inland to the 400 million year old Presley Hills . |
| 10 | She had stayed a few days in a cheap hotel near the Bristol docks , too bruised mentally to contemplate going anywhere . |
| 11 | you have to wait a few days for it to clear do n't ya ? |
| 12 | But a defiant Wilkinson said : ‘ We have had a few days of mourning after the European Cup defeat , but this match gives us another route back into Europe and we know how important it is to stay on it . ’ |
| 13 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 14 | The car rumbled about him … even more restful than the noise of train wheels in the old days ; he tried to remember the old days … |
| 15 | How he loves to recall the far-off days before the Netherlandish beetle savaged the English elm , before the uplands were girdled with Christmas trees . |
| 16 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 17 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 18 | I found out how well after a serious filter failure while away , but it did take a few days for the lethargic specimen to return to full health . |
| 19 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 20 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 21 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 22 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
| 23 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |
| 24 | Bourke says that he then drove Blake to new accommodation that he had rented a few days earlier at Highlever Road in north Kensington . |