Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the work that I became , as it happened , mostly concerned with was the erm granting of major scholarships as they were then called which subsequently became called County Awards and er which were attainable in those days only at universities |
| 2 | Which was , say , when they 'd started the the roll of bacon , there always used to be some little bits before they got the full rashers , well , you could n't sell those , you could n't s I mean even though things were tight in those days , you could n't sell any sort of bacon , you either sold best back , or you sold belly bacon . |
| 3 | We were destitute in those days |
| 4 | Under the patriarchy of Winston Churchill , homosexuals and teenagers were not marginal but invisible , except when they surfaced as victims of the latest moral panic , of which there were many in those days . |
| 5 | Erm of which were there were many in those days er , not so many today of course but er er ooh I should say there were probably on Vale which was our nearest sort of shopping area to where we lived , there were probably two or three erm shoe repairers , including , and you could go and buy leather there . |
| 6 | Everyone of , who was alive during that day still remembers it vividly , the day of the last mission . |
| 7 | Nor did it occur to me then to enquire how it was possible in those days for a keen Wesleyan Methodist to become a publican . |
| 8 | The Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda suggested that one of the reasons why Pogosyan was resigning was that for several days he had been unable to secure an audience with Gorbachev to discuss developments in Armenia . |
| 9 | Anything of quality was exciting in those days , for the usual run of food was of a dullness today hardly comprehensible . |
| 10 | Traffic was light in those days and I explored South Wiltshire — in fact the whole area some fifteen miles around Salisbury . |
| 11 | Besides , she was different in those days . " |
| 12 | He had shaved , had a shower and was fresh for another day . |
| 13 | Condition 2 stated that a charge of £5 plus V.A.T. per transparency was payable for each day they were late being returned . |
| 14 | It was customary in those days for the ablest students to be given some responsibility for teaching the younger pupils . |
| 15 | Er , and I mean , as was conventional in those days , you educate , your sons went to school and you try and , educated your girls at home , but the , the aunt put her foot down and said she would n't do it . |
| 16 | Mind you , he was younger in those days , and a fit man in spite of his leg . ’ |
| 17 | But I was younger in those days . |
| 18 | Did they still think the Earth was flat in those days ? |
| 19 | I do n't know what happened to the front entrance , but there was a basement underneath there and my first wife was dancing in Harvey Martin 's dance hall underneath , her pal and herself she , they 'd gone to this dance it was a dancing lesson on a Saturday night it was famous in those days Harvey Martin 's dance class er yes I |
| 20 | There is one modification er which has been drawn to our attention that is Mr Ian was present on that day . |
| 21 | Parents reported whether their children had suffered from attacks of asthma or bronchitis during the past 12 months , whether they usually coughed first thing in the morning or at any other time , whether their chest ever sounded wheezy or whistling , and , if so , whether this symptom was present on most days or nights . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose I was cocky in those days , although inwardly nervous , ’ recalled Crawford . |
| 23 | It was uncommon in those days , and still is , for publishers to commission artists of such quality to illustrate cookery books , and a little of the success of Boulestin 's early books must be acknowledged to his publishers who , no doubt under the guidance of their author , produced them in so appropriate a form , in large type , on thick paper : chunky , easy little books to handle , attractively bound . |
| 24 | God knows what kind of seedy cinematic productions she was involved in these days . |
| 25 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 26 | Erm mind you it was really a step onto something else that as far as I was concerned in those days I meant o go to sea of course and er that was the best place you could have er to serve an apprenticeship because everything er I mean it was one of the As everything was starting to get specialized in in other works nowadays it 's gone completely now . |
| 27 | It was apparent from that day that he had a natural talent that was waiting to be developed . |
| 28 | No I 'm not saying it 's unpleasant I 'm saying it was trendy in those days . |
| 29 | IT WAS one of those days which news editors will remember on their death-beds . |
| 30 | ‘ It was one of those days when it seemed like I had to climb a mountain . |