Example sentences of "[adj] days [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Later in the test on very wet days they performed well and gave good support and grip on grassy hillsides and rough stony paths . |
2 | One suggestion which spoke volumes , was for the erection of close-mesh wire fencing along the boundary hedges to stop balls going out of bounds , and another that a selection of books be provided in the clubhouse so that ‘ on the wet days there would be some occupation ’ . |
3 | By injecting the drug into the carotid artery on different days it is possible to observe the effect of disruption of left and right hemispheres alternately . |
4 | In later and easier days he would certainly have studied mathematics at university , but instead left school when he was seventeen . |
5 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
6 | In 1975 , for instance , journalists arriving in Beirut would invariably be told by the Lebanese of the halcyon days which had just ended , of the peaceful Phoenician land in which Christians and Muslims had shown the world that historically religious antagonists could live in peace . |
7 | Halcyon days they seemed to me now , for Leslie was within reach , and was not in action . |
8 | ‘ In the old days we should have thrown a guinea-fowl or a few warthog piglets in , too . |
9 | In the old days we got on with the job , jollied staff along if they needed it , kicked the sluggards in the backside , encouraged the unconfident and persuaded a reluctant and sceptical police force to use us . |
10 | ‘ In the old days we could rely on the same spectators attending match after match , whatever the weather or the results . |
11 | In the old days we simply could n't afford to do that . |
12 | In the old days we simply could n't afford to do that . |
13 | In the old days we used to have very inefficient coal fires , burning in open grates , which to produce a reasonable heat used a significant amount of fuel . |
14 | No one had ever seen a bride or groom walk to their wedding ; even the very poor found a car for that day and in the old days they had gone by trap or sidecar . |
15 | In the old days they would be feeding the poor at the castle gate . |
16 | In old days they put mountain ash berries and a cast horseshoe over the lintel to frighten away the Fairy Folk . |
17 | In the old days they carried twenty-four horses in a car , but there was no centre aisle , eh ? |
18 | In the old days they all played cards . |
19 | And of course in the old days they just were n't available because they were n't on the market . |
20 | Our ships may be small , Mr. Mottram , but in the old days they were liners — that is , they made regular , scheduled runs from various ports on the Continent to the United Kingdom . |
21 | ‘ In the old days they 'd have thumped enough into him to get him through his exam . |
22 | Ah ha , but in the old days they used to have |
23 | In the old days they used to have little houses close together called begins with T |
24 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |
25 | In the old days she and Adam had often come to Starr Hills ; it was lonely , with no one to shout ‘ Crazy Demdykes ’ after them , and they 'd played intense , obsessive games of treasure-hunting amongst the junk . |
26 | In the old days she would 'ave joined the Salvation Army . ’ |
27 | In those bad old days she would even shine his shoes for him , and beg for the privilege of hosing down his car . |
28 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
29 | Or ‘ In the old days you had no government but you collected taxes from passers-by : you must have had a treasury ? ’ |
30 | It was one of the only places that you could get banjo strings to put on the top , because in the old days you could n't get thin guitar strings . |