Example sentences of "her days " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken her days to invent this one . |
| 2 | She had always sworn to herself that she would never impose on her daughter 's marriage 2. ) but she knows now that she can not possibly decline an invitation to spend the rest of her days at her son-in-law 's house . |
| 3 | Her days were spent visiting countless villages , communities , clinics and hospitals . |
| 4 | She employed the architect George Devey to build her ‘ Pavilion ’ , where she would spend her days , but for fear of being made ill by the river 's damp fumes she always dined and spent the night with her brother at Waddesdon . |
| 5 | I knew that she now expected me to live with her for the rest of her days . |
| 6 | Even after thirty-one years , Dorothea 's memories sweetened her days . |
| 7 | During her days on Neighbours , she recalled how people were only too willing to vent their jealousies publicly . |
| 8 | Her days were very full . |
| 9 | She would keep to herself the colour of her days — white Mondays , bordered in yellow , mahogany-brown Sundays . |
| 10 | But her days ! |
| 11 | How did she spend her days ? |
| 12 | My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos . |
| 13 | One is that the not guilty verdict was brought on the understanding that she sought medical help in a psychiatric hospital , and that poor Jane finished her days in Broadmoor . |
| 14 | ‘ She says she is willing to work all her days just to keep a little home of her own ’ , yet she also felt ‘ too old for the work . ’ |
| 15 | And as a child his own household included not only his father 's father but his mother 's grandmother , who spent most of her days hidden away ‘ in her own cabin ’ , but who would emerge on Sundays , always knitting a long stocking . |
| 16 | Admittedly , she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return ; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages , imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall . |
| 17 | Not that she was afraid ; she once said that she travelled to seek out danger to ‘ silence fear ’ so that she could reach the end of her days ‘ free from that mortal weakness ’ . |
| 18 | De Beauvoir maintained rigid control over certain areas of her emotional and sexual life to the end of her days , yet some things she publicly , if not privately repressed have recently resurfaced . |
| 19 | And gradually the school declined , until she had to give it up and retire to end her days in the white cottage with the inevitable cat as her only companion . |
| 20 | And Thursday was not one of her days off — how could she be free in the afternoon ? |
| 21 | She worked the ragstore , she had worked there all her days , since she had left school — and a whisker away from a special one — what wits she had ; and wit let her steal the jacket , Mr McGregor 's broken arm . |
| 22 | Such a move would cause her pain , would shorten her days , would deny the stout heart that has kept her here all these weeks . |
| 23 | At the same time the specialist advised her to take walks in the fresh air and sunshine and also to stop using foundation on her days off work . |
| 24 | Sidney Webb prophesied that Annie Besant would end her days in a convent , having once fiercely denounced religion . |
| 25 | To go back to spending her days there was unendurable . |
| 26 | Ruth never felt that she was good at it , but it made a change , and she enjoyed listening to her mistress 's accounts of her days . |
| 27 | Others who remember Anne from her days as Mrs Mark Phillips said she was the one who wore the trousers . |
| 28 | She wanted to forget , had forgotten already , would go on forgetting , that she was the other one — the other one who , as some believed , was presently whiling away her days in a nunnery … |
| 29 | To spend her days reading and writing and finding out more and talking to people , and to spend no time at all trying to outwit awful people like Mother Clare . |
| 30 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |