Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rather pathetic , like an ageing colonel looking back on the days of Empire . |
| 2 | There is a tradition here , dating back to the days of ‘ Go-Go County ’ , of First Division embarrassment if not failure but Rangers survived the early onslaught and , before an all-ticket 5,997 crowd on a clear mild night , emerged as worthy winners on aggregate after a goalless draw . |
| 3 | People did broadcasts , and if they wrote books , or gave talks on books , these books were all to be found in the BBC Library , along with a fine technical collection and an unrivalled political section , dating back to the days when Guy Burgess ran their first Parliamentary programmes . |
| 4 | After violent storms the haul will often include valuable items dating back to the days when drowned sailors on the local beach was commonplace . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course , Taiwan has a Portuguese connection dating back to the days when it was Formosa , but you wo n't have found any opportunity to air it these days . |
| 6 | Dinmore Manor is on the site of a Knights Hospital dating back to the days of the crusades . |
| 7 | With the briefest of intros emanating from somewhere in the swathe of dry ice , The Bunnymen arrived to polite applause and tore into a set devoid of any material dating back to the days of Ian McCulloch . |
| 8 | Painted green outside , the inside contained the largest collection of secondhand books about Ireland in the world ( I should imagine ) , going back to the days of Swift and beyond . |
| 9 | Others , being anciently established , also have manuscript materials going back to the days of their foundation in the Middle Ages or the Tudor period . |
| 10 | It was — is , I should say — an old concern , going back to the days of coastal ketches and collier brigs , and was founded by the great-grandfather of the present chairman to bring coal from the Tyne to London . |
| 11 | A good many had worked there for years , some going back to the days of her grandfather . |
| 12 | Oh yeah yeah and they they keep er actually this album the reason it 's called I keep saying album we keep going back to the days of vinyl er the reason its called By Request over the last four of five years Telstar sent out a sort of feelers on different sleeves asking people if there were any songs that they might like to hear Foster and Allen sing . |
| 13 | I mean it going back to the days I think it was Professor Jode , it depends what you mean by class . |
| 14 | From where I 'm sitting ( in a Paris café as it happens , pal , limbering up for the days 500cl — I mean 500 word slog ) , a rest in that sense would take the form of a couple of shifts in a Bolivian tin mine — and Club Med do n't fly there . |
| 15 | Equating grade C with a pass was just historical , harking back to the days of the O-level , he explained , and the Government was keen to get away once and for all from the pass/fail idea . |
| 16 | It was no good harking back to the days of coming top in exams , the days of her violin teacher 's delight in her , his saying that really he would n't be surprised if she was good enough for Brussels or Prague . |
| 17 | This having early in the days this not be impossible to get it all typed up . |
| 18 | You can hasten this recovery process by relaxing , resting and eating well in the days following your run . |
| 19 | But I am thinking back to the days before the war — the ‘ 39–45 war in Europe , that is — when a reporter was actually expected to know the place he was writing about . |