Example sentences of "[prep] [art] days [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , when the bombs start to go off the Western press will put it down to hard-liner elements still yearning for the days before Gorbachev arrived . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the future of her career was a constant background worry as the days and weeks of her appointment at Rummidge ticked away like a taxi meter . |
| 3 | Because as the days and weeks unfold so will the true identity of her baby . |
| 4 | He understood what she meant about Slorne because as the days and weeks had grown into months he had found great comfort in her strange and silent presence . |
| 5 | It was the only display , through the days and nights of tension , of their emotion . |
| 6 | How can anyone still be alive in that city after the days and nights of bombing since the 6th June ? |
| 7 | Other symptoms were deemed to be present if they occurred on at least a quarter of the days or occasions , except that passage of mucus was taken as a symptom if it had ever occurred ( this being normal clinical practice ) . |
| 8 | If only Craig was at her side it would be so different , she needed his strength to see her through the ordeal , not only of the funeral but of the days and weeks that were to come . |
| 9 | It has lived , among other things , a life of intricate self-contemplation , rather like Crusoe keeping calendar of the days and weeks and faithfully observing in solitude the ancient usages of his tribe . |
| 10 | Such symptoms may be present for a days or weeks and then clear up but in many , the symptoms are persistent . |
| 11 | The Romans divided the year into twelve months , and each month into groups of days called respectively Kalends , Nones and Ides , with the days after Ides reckoned in relation to the Kalends of the next month following . |
| 12 | ‘ Ten minutes for refreshment ’ 1892 : passengers bolt their lunch at York station buffet prior to reboarding , in the days before buffet cars were provided . |
| 13 | Paul made a very happy marriage with Muriel Ezra , the widow of a distinguished zoologist , who built up his own private menagerie in Surrey in the days before safari parks proliferated in the English countryside . |
| 14 | This year Medau has returned to Cromer which in the days before Norfolk had any training scheme was the venue of the Medau Society 's Summer School . |
| 15 | It was in the days before soldiers were housed in barracks and were left to their own devices in the taverns and private houses in which they were billetted . |
| 16 | In the days before M and B , there was no 48-hour wonder cure ; the general would be confined to his bed for at least five or six days . |
| 17 | In the days before hyperbole was shortened to hype and live boxing was a TV rarity , Cooper had a nationwide following . |
| 18 | In the days before packages were available , it was he who wrote the programs for LETGEN ( for letter generation ) and later designed E-Mail ( our electronic mailing system ) and Viewdata ( the facilities used by agents ) . |
| 19 | Of about 100 prisoners who had been on hunger strike since May 1 [ see p. 38179 ] protesting at the government 's alleged failure to free all political prisoners , 17 who were still fasting began accepting food in the days after Mandela appealed to them to abandon the fast , on June 6 . |
| 20 | Goebbels 's rhetoric that ‘ the German people has never looked up to its Führer so full of belief as in the days and hours that it became aware of the entire burden of this struggle for our life ’ , and that far from being discouraged ‘ it stood all the more firmly and unerringly behind his great aims ’ , sounded even emptier than usual . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ In the days and months ahead we will expose all their broken promises , all their empty commitments so that the British people can hold them to account . ’ |
| 22 | This is the best way to lay amicable foundations for your more concerted efforts in the days and weeks to come as you try to prise a response out of your carefully selected target hack . |
| 23 | In the days and weeks that followed , Chola was sometimes well , sometimes ill . |
| 24 | Images of women thrown down , kicked and beaten , men held and knocked senseless by Blackshirt stewards , filled the press in the days and weeks that followed . |
| 25 | You were with her in the days and weeks that led up to it . |
| 26 | You could even have these put together in a special album which will add to your happy memories in the days and years to come . |
| 27 | In the days or weeks after the lithotripsy 36% of the patients had attacks of biliary pain . |