Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [pos pn] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | At other times Fagin would tell them all about robberies he had committed in his younger days , telling the stories so well and putting in so many funny details that Oliver could not stop laughing , even though he knew it was wrong . |
| 2 | A short time before his death Harry Chapman had left his Hampshire rest home to stay at Herbert 's home in Oakwood , Leeds , and the care with which he was attended in his last days showed his elder brother 's family loyalty and devotion . |
| 3 | He picked up an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival , assembled a band behind him and played loud enough to raise the roofbeams — just like he had done in his high-school days . |
| 4 | He just , he might have done in his younger days . |
| 5 | She had seen in her young days the island women carry brass bottomless bowls on their heads to support the old churns in which they delivered milk . |
| 6 | Dorothy Eden , one of the best and most successful writers of romantic suspense novels , used in her earlier days to start her whole book from a name she had chosen , or that had perhaps chosen her by striking a note from the wind-harp in her mind — Seraphine , Blandina , Hariot . |
| 7 | One of the ‘ Blue Chips ’ , regarded in her early days as little better than an Edward Heath Youth Movement , the new Secretary of State for the Environment is now her green-eyed boy . |
| 8 | The diets of older people will often consist of foods favoured in their younger days , but which are now known to be deleterious to health . |
| 9 | The United Biscuit 's chairman could never have guessed in his early days with the firm that it would grow into such a huge food manufacturer . |
| 10 | Even those that succeeded in coming alive were populated in their early days mostly by foreigners , that is , by non-Cornishmen , or they too would have failed . |
| 11 | and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison . |
| 12 | I 've often reflected how I might have reacted in my early days as a Christian to such advice . |
| 13 | Although some pieces of legislation were passed in its final days , including numerous appropriations bills , several measures were killed by Republican filibustering . |
| 14 | The magazine 's line on such matters would also appear to be remote from , and distinctly harder than , that taken in its dying days by the Reagan Administration . |