Example sentences of "[adj] days he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later and easier days he would certainly have studied mathematics at university , but instead left school when he was seventeen . |
| 2 | In the old days he would have been amused and asked her how she 'd done it . |
| 3 | In the old days he could 've swallowed a six-pack in half an hour and then gone out and walked a tightrope . |
| 4 | And in the old days he used to serve the Khedive . ’ |
| 5 | In the old days he would have felt guilt . |
| 6 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 7 | Some days he did n't say a word . |
| 8 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 9 | 2:1 When after some days he returned to Capernaum , the news went round that he was at home ; 2. and such a crowd collected that the pace in front of the door was not big enough to hold them . |
| 10 | On some days he delivered as many as fourteen speeches and on one occasion shook 2,000 hands in a receiving line . |
| 11 | ‘ He looks better , it 's true , but some days he eats nothing at all , and other days he eats just like a healthy boy . |
| 12 | So it is a slow pitch , there 's very little pace in it for him , but it never puts him off , he still comes hurling in and er he 'll , he 'll flat out on anything , that it , we were saying some days he gets it right and others he does n't . |
| 13 | At the age of 39 and 105 days he becomes the ninth oldest player in history to make his Test debut in Friday 's historic encounter between South Africa and India in Durban . |
| 14 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 15 | For the past few days he had brought security into her child 's world of distorted perspectives and half comprehended fears . |
| 16 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
| 17 | Don Cameron was Head of Talks , and I was usually in charge of his visit , which kept me busy for the few days he would be with us , twice a year . |
| 18 | Over the next few days he was never out of the press and in one emotional moment he confided to a journalist that he felt betrayed by Scotland . |
| 19 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
| 20 | In the next few days he was busy making size , painting signs and colouring the room and ‘ hooking . ’ |
| 21 | To her disappointment Nahum only seemed to visit the old and sick , and after the first few days he no longer took her with him , having suffered embarrassment each time he introduced his new wife whose youth could n't be disguised . |
| 22 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 23 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
| 24 | It was just eighty-eight days since he had recaptured his capital of Paris , yet in those few days he had shown the world how an emperor made armies . |
| 25 | The last few days he had been getting on her nerves . |
| 26 | After a few days he is well enough to travel and one of Leavitt 's Willys safari cars takes them home . |
| 27 | Over the past few days he had fished a little with Burkett , been to Crosthwaite Church , laid a light siege to the maid Christine , cast out a few nightlines about the town and done a calculated amount of promenading . |
| 28 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 29 | You 'll take him home with you to avoid gossip , and then in a few days he 'll be fit enough to leave the country . ’ |
| 30 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |