Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |
| 2 | The lowering of interest rates last year provided extra spending power for the family but , as Mr Ingram , 34 , pointed out , that will probably now just be kept back for the rainy days to come in 1994 . |
| 3 | Nearly , but not quite ; and when guests come back after a hard day in the hills , displaying half a dozen beautiful fish , and are asked where they caught them , they might reply ‘ Shhhh ’ , rather than admit malpractice . |
| 4 | ‘ We need to get back towards the Victorian days of discipline ’ says Dr Boyson in one of his attacks on ‘ permissiveness ’ , and he is certainly not alone among Tory fundamentalists in fondly remembering the glories of empire , child labour and workhouse in Queen Victoria 's reign . |
| 5 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 6 | She told Martha that she would be going out that evening and would quite likely not be back until the following day . |
| 7 | Too often the executive forgets to phone back until the next day . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll be back in a few days with your orders . ’ |
| 9 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 10 | I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’ |
| 11 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
| 12 | when we send it back in a few days fitting , this job I says we 'll want it early in the morning and you can have it in the afternoon , but we were going to spend the day in Liverpool , but you 're dad said , I 'm not being round all those shops all day , so I said ooh no ! |
| 13 | He tried to tell himself that it did n't matter , that you could find the same situation all over the West End ; back in the long-lost days of sweetness and light he could remember taking his wife to a performance of Jesus Christ , Superstar when it had gone through so many cast changes that no-one was even bothering to count , and what a bunch of wankers they 'd been . |
| 14 | I played that on almost every album back in the early days ; it 's a black one and it 's a beautiful guitar . ’ |
| 15 | Erm er it 's basically that there is no stated requirement at present from any of the four nations , for this aircraft to operate on ships er back in the early days of the programme when the the French were involved er we looked at the possibility of designing an aircraft er to provide the whole spectrum of capabilities from air defence er ground attack and also maritime operations off ships and er we we certainly experienced some difficulties in reconciling all those things in one design , which was adequately capable in each of the areas . |
| 16 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 17 | Even now , a hard up local could be sure of a free pint just by telling Knocker he had watched him fight at Gloucester 's annual Barton Fair , back in the old days . |
| 18 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 19 | way back in the old days but Now then , |
| 20 | ‘ They built things differently back in the old days . |
| 21 | Back in the bad days , working for the Mason , his reflection in a church window or a bowl of washing water had stared out at him like an evil spirit — all girlish , sheepish , wimpish . |
| 22 | ‘ A Practical Revivalist ’ wrote back on the same day . |
| 23 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
| 24 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 25 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 26 | All he would say was that the paper would be completely new , but would hark back to the great days of the Mirror . |
| 27 | Disputes among Spanish and Indian painters themselves , in some ways antecedents of all subsequent debates around ‘ indigenism ’ , go back to the early days in Cuzco . |
| 28 | Going , going back to the early days you mentioned that erm the dividend , the divi was quite important . |
| 29 | In the early days , back to the early days , what sort of boats would come into Ipswich Docks ? |
| 30 | He will reveal in tonight 's BBC1 Panorama programme that he is worried about facilities at the Berkshire plant run by private contractors since April which date back to the early days of the nuclear age . |