Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] days of " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt she has heard about Lovat being badly wounded during the early days of the fighting in Normandy and remembers her words to me as I left Achnacarry to join Lovat in Sussex . |
| 2 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 3 | He moved to the window , walking with a pronounced limp on his left leg , the result of a shrapnel wound in the last days of the Korean War . |
| 4 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 5 | Now a play 's been written about the darker days of his life in Worcestershire . |
| 6 | But the beauty and the loving care with which many a smaller city had been built and adorned in the early days of the Greek cities is a vital element in the history of the Greek city , obscurely pointing to a time , not of peace — for in Greece the lion never lay down with the lamb , and neighbouring cities constantly fought each other — but of more equal prosperity . |
| 7 | The collection from the nest was made within a few days of the fledglings leaving the nest , and the broken up and trampled remains of pellets and bones from the nest can be mostly attributed to the regurgitated pellets of the fledglings . |
| 8 | Now Robyn threw herself into her work , staying up late into the night , as she had done in the early days of setting up her business , working with feverish persistence to complete a design . |
| 9 | This is a direct reference to this technique , which was written in the old days of long boats , but as the boats in use get still shorter this steering effect reduces and the ease of veering off course increases . |
| 10 | Endowments dated from the earliest days of England 's Christian history and compulsory Church Rates were no longer being levied throughout the Kingdom . |
| 11 | The leases that were granted in the heady days of 1989/90 when the brewery company landlords invited rental bids from tenants , saw them hungrily bidding up to 12 per cent to 15 per cent of the anticipated turnover . |
| 12 | Louis XIV had seen in the last days of his reign the growing pointlessness of the traditional Franco-Austrian antagonism , but his efforts to achieve some agreement with the Habsburgs were not followed up by his successors . |
| 13 | Great advances have been made since the early days of computing , when specialist skills were needed for such interaction . |
| 14 | This line did not meet with the approval of the IRA hardliners , who have escalated the violence in Northern Ireland over the last year to an intensity not seen since the worst days of the 1970s . |
| 15 | A large part of the world had special trading and investment relations with the UK stemming mainly from the ties forged during the earlier days of the Empire . |
| 16 | Remembering the struggles she had had in the early days of her married life to avoid putting weight on her waist and hips , she laughed . |
| 17 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 18 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 19 | There is an extraordinary variety to the films produced in the early days of British cinema , showing the diversity of sources from which filmmakers drew their ideas . |
| 20 | I hope you are pleasantly surprised at how much further you are now able to stretch compared with the early days of the programme . |
| 21 | It is often the case that the highest ambitions can be born in the darkest days of defeat . |
| 22 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
| 23 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
| 24 | Based on the seven days of creation there are seven days to a week and the Hebrew calendar is then made up of a cycle of seven years ( each seventh year being the Sabbatical year ) and seven cycles of seven years ( with each fiftieth year being a year of Jubilee ) . |
| 25 | There were more Goblin tribes still loyal or too afraid to desert , but even they were few compared to the great days of conquest . |
| 26 | THE pressures on the conductor Mark Wigglesworth seem considerable — his career constantly compared to the early days of Simon Rattle , and the rising star tag firmly attached to his travelling bag . |
| 27 | A personalised pay-in book will also be posted within a few days of opening the account . |
| 28 | Sadly , the momentum gathered in the early days of my crusade had fizzled out by April , when it became obvious we were heading for Division One . |
| 29 | On a rocky hill , about 2000 feet above the sea , Mistra was developed in the late days of the empire from the fourteenth century and was , at that time , an important centre and therefore contained some large churches . |
| 30 | The giant brick structures were laid during the earliest days of the industrial revolution in Manchester , several decades before London got down to the task of comprehensive sanitation for its citizens . |