Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites . |
| 2 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 3 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 4 | 1 should not have let the three days expire . |
| 5 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
| 6 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 7 | I 've been a Celtic supporter for thirty five years , I 've seen the good days and we 're in the bad days . |
| 8 | It was a bright , crisp dawn , and Doyle was hopeful of a bright , crisp day , without rain , and without the freezing winds that had made the previous days so miserable and debilitating . |
| 9 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 10 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 11 | The programme concluded with a snatch of birdsong , a low trill , repeated several times before dwindling into silence ; this , the presenter announced , was the song of the dusky seaside sparrow , a species of which the last survivor had died a few days before in its aviary at Disney World in Florida . |
| 12 | If you 've got a few days to spare , head inland to the 400 million year old Presley Hills . |
| 13 | I 've got a few days I can go into work disco poster , I 've got ta do this and that . |
| 14 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |
| 15 | Gerry Fitt reiterated the point about Czechoslovakia ( the Soviet invasion had occurred a few days before ) . |
| 16 | She had stayed a few days in a cheap hotel near the Bristol docks , too bruised mentally to contemplate going anywhere . |
| 17 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 18 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |
| 19 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 20 | However , disagreements appeared less motivated by ideological differences than by issues of personality and style ( unlike the factionalism which had bedeviled the early days of the administration of Corazon Aquino , his presidential predecessor ) . |
| 21 | My term had ended a few days before the start of Crispin 's leave , so we had agreed to travel up separately , and meet on Moila itself . |
| 22 | The fifth member , Salvador Sánchez , had returned a few days previously . |
| 23 | Bourke says that he then drove Blake to new accommodation that he had rented a few days earlier at Highlever Road in north Kensington . |
| 24 | you have to wait a few days for it to clear do n't ya ? |
| 25 | On the way they 've run up Ben Nevis and Snowdonia … swum across Loch Lomond and Derwent Water and cycled the rest of the way … they 're hoping to raise thousands for charity and after 1200 miles have earned a few days off … |
| 26 | But a defiant Wilkinson said : ‘ We have had a few days of mourning after the European Cup defeat , but this match gives us another route back into Europe and we know how important it is to stay on it . ’ |