Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] days " in BNC.
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1 | I used to walk between the two parts of the building — that is between my studio/study and the main house — and stare up at the pulley that hangs over the hall , an imitation of the one that hung there in the days when a real miller hoisted his sacks of grain . |
2 | Our grandmothers grew up in the days when women rose at dawn , laid the sticks and lit the fire . |
3 | I thought wryly of the days , not many years before , when I was holed up in one dark room on the wrong side of town . |
4 | The cover was made of leather and went back to the days when mankind used animals for food and clothing . |
5 | His temporarily revived spirits darkened again with the days . |