Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped in the early days , ’ she says . |
| 2 | Like did er er people begin to be asked to do different jobs whereas you described in the older days , you were very much sort of , pinned to one machine if you like ? |
| 3 | ‘ A lot of the lead-based paints we used in the old days would n't be permitted today , ’ he pointed out . |
| 4 | Another form of deception which affected the consumer occurred in the early days of LPs . |
| 5 | Incidentally , the working pattern of these bodyguards , so it transpired over the following days , entailed one or the other of them going up to sleep at unusual hours so as to ensure at least one was on duty throughout the night . |
| 6 | Dalrymple presided over the halcyon days of ‘ c'moan or get aff ’ until his retiral in 1926 , and Dalrymple 's days saw the expansion of the system to 100 miles of track and an annual profit , together with a yearly 300 MILLION passengers , not all on the one tram of course . |
| 7 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 8 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 9 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 10 | Several thousand people massed in the streets of Bamako , and opposition groups said that 148 had been killed and hundreds wounded in the three days . |
| 11 | Jock Lewes came in a few days later with a different tale to tell . |
| 12 | Jonquil came in every few days . |
| 13 | It rained for a few days after that shake of early March . |
| 14 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 15 | Mendoros joined in the early days , taken on as a quality engineer by GE acting on behalf of HAI . |
| 16 | Two of the most powerful directors in Hollywood graduated from the Happy Days academy . |
| 17 | Securing a job in Digital , opened in the recession-free days of the early 70s , was thought to be akin to getting a position in the civil service : once in , there forever . |
| 18 | It is as though one has a newspaper delivered only for the football results on Saturdays and assumes that nothing at all happened on the other days of the week . |
| 19 | What happened to the 12 days of Christmas ? |
| 20 | One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care , but recovered in a few days . |
| 21 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 22 | It argued in the early days that to be too closely allied with Catholicism would deter a broad membership , which is now drawn from among protestants , muslims , baptists , Jews — and , it emphasises proudly , atheists . |
| 23 | That was what we targeted during the four days prior to the Cardiff match . |
| 24 | Much loved by few , hated by so many , it thrived during the happy days of large plant builds at Capenhurst . |
| 25 | We talked of the good days and our music . |
| 26 | And they went round on their rounds and they called along every eleven days . |
| 27 | This is total rubbish , as if the body is to be buried or cremated within a few days after death , no such risk exists . |
| 28 | And there was scarcely a shirt to be found that did not have the high necks and ruffles that she favoured in the early days . |
| 29 | Mrs Rumney rang within a few days . |
| 30 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |