Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [adj] 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 | The government has been forced into a rapid U-turn over plans to cut social security payments to care home residents if they were absent for six days or more . |
| 5 | Her baby was due in five days and it had tasted nothing but tears . |
| 6 | Everyone of , who was alive during that day still remembers it vividly , the day of the last mission . |
| 7 | According to sources that could n't be revealed , the Paradise Corporation had pretended that Sir Charles Dobson was alive for ten days after his death so that the leadership of the company could be handed over without shaking public confidence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | According to Dromey and Taylor , it was clear from first day that the police : |
| 12 | Besides , she was different in those days . " |
| 13 | Night was different from bright day , smelt different , sounded different ; ordinary things assumed different shapes ; an alien and more sinister power ruled the night . |
| 14 | He had shaved , had a shower and was fresh for another day . |
| 15 | Condition 2 stated that a charge of £5 plus V.A.T. per transparency was payable for each day they were late being returned . |
| 16 | It was customary in those days for the ablest students to be given some responsibility for teaching the younger pupils . |
| 17 | The weather was fine after two days of rain , and over 400 spectators followed the match in the morning and 700 in the afternoon , many of them reaching Harpsden by push-bike . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To kill someone , all she did was fast for three days and concentrate her mind on destroying the life of her enemy . |
| 20 | I was sick for three days . ’ |
| 21 | Even when the Treaty allowed for majority voting , thus hopefully preventing individual states from applying a veto , progress was frustrated in earlier days by French distaste for the principle and later the British were not averse to opposing majority voting when it suited them . |
| 22 | Did they still think the Earth was flat in those days ? |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | There is one modification er which has been drawn to our attention that is Mr Ian was present on that day . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose I was cocky in those days , although inwardly nervous , ’ recalled Crawford . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | God knows what kind of seedy cinematic productions she was involved in these days . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Bingo , skittles , old-tyme Kung-fu , spitting at the chicken , all ensured that the club 's calendar was full for 370 days a year . |