Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] days [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Difficult as it is to summarize so majestic a body of work as that produced by Hailey in the days when he reigned supreme as the Colonial Office 's oracle on Africa , it seems fair to say that the main impression to be derived from it is of his anxiety to avoid committing the British government to any course of action which might prove to be irreversible . |
| 2 | retired at the end of October after a 26-year career with the Company which started in the accounts department at Key Street in the days when staff sat on stools at high , sloping desks . |
| 3 | Those of us who remember the horrid cruelties applied to Frank Williams in the days when he was generally considered ‘ Wanker Williams ’ , an outsider with no chance to make good , can remember how it felt for Emerson to climb down off his mountain and to try to make good in a changing and by then wholly different world . |
| 4 | A curving drive amongst trees leads up to the side of the lake and continues thence along the edge of the water in beautiful surroundings richly endowed with lovely trees planted by the Farrers in the days long ago when woodlands were intended for ornamental display and were allowed to develop to full maturity with no thought of slaughtering them for profit . |
| 5 | It is still not generally appreciated just how serious a threat to the peace of Europe was posed by the situation developing in north-east Italy and southern Austria in the days immediately following the end of the European war in 1945 . |
| 6 | It had passed to Evelina in the days when a Burne-Jones was not worth twopence and goodness knew what Evelina had done with it . |
| 7 | Ever photogenic , Castle Street in Farnham in the days when it was possible to capture the scene without any parked cars . |
| 8 | WAS born and brought up in Edinburgh during the days when Scotland 's capital merited its ancient title , ‘ Auld Reekie ’ . |
| 9 | It is entirely dominated by old comrades of 77-year-old Erich Honecker from the days when , after 1945 , he built his powerbase . |
| 10 | Erm of which there , of course is erm impeccable logic er you might think well there are n't any coal mines in Didcot , which of course there are n't , but Didcot is actually a railway junction as I mentioned and in fact it 's on the main line from the midlands erm and they can get coal in from the Midlands very easily er it 's on the main line er also from South Wales and they 're getting co getting coal from , from er South Wales in the days when they built Didcot power station they still had coal m m mines in South Wales , so this was an obvious place to locate a large coalfired power station . |