Example sentences of "[adj] day [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what one would actually need using that theory is a whole theory , er , series of reschedule markers to highlight different days when one has time available . |
| 2 | Halcyon days indeed but now the trio have broken up and McWilliams after another brief spell in England is back searching around for mounts . |
| 3 | You 're in a dreary barn of a place , its halcyon days long gone . |
| 4 | It was just like the bad old days again . |
| 5 | Rather than waste all of the oak in the old days here have , have faced it |
| 6 | At most they would have remained as caretakers of the museum pieces of the past , reminding the young in this brave new , smug , boring , consensual world of the bad old days when people felt deeply about big issues and the future was uncertain . |
| 7 | Back in the bad old days when I was infatuated with you , I rang that number twice to find out . |
| 8 | BACK IN the bad old days when home-bred Open champions were a rarity , it was said that British golfers did n't win because they regarded the event as something special , while the Americans regarded it as just another tournament on the circuit . |
| 9 | One PC complained at length to a sergeant that the ‘ ground ’ where they both worked had become much quieter ; he looked back with nostalgia to the old days when the ground was much ‘ harder ’ and ‘ you could literally be strolling past a pub and a bloke would come staggering out with a knife in his back … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There was once a bumper sticker that read ‘ remember the good old days when air was clean and sex was dirty ? ’ |
| 11 | It 's not like the old days when people lived in villages and knew whose great-great-grandad was a horse thief or whatever . |
| 12 | And sometimes they talked about Ireland and the old days when they were children . |
| 13 | Not like the old days when we looked up to you . |
| 14 | I remember the old days when layouts were readable , ZZAP ! cost under two quid and a packet of polos were still ten pence . |
| 15 | The quality of translation here , with its simpering rhythms and bathetic language , proves that in this matter the major publishers have moved on hardly at all from the bad old days when the employment of unskilled amateurs or stilted romantics in translation work marred the English publication of some of the great accounts of European mountaineering . |
| 16 | How he misses the good old days when he would punt out OTC stock , even though the punters had invested so often in vain . |
| 17 | I like to remember the old days when we were together , for the first time . ’ |
| 18 | Not like the old days when me and two women from the village did the lot . |
| 19 | ‘ Things are a far cry from the old days when purchasing was perceived as a routine activity governed by rules and procedures . |
| 20 | I have the impression that consumers would quite like to get back to the good old days when they used to spend money occasionally , ’ concluded Ainslie Tim . |
| 21 | Just the way you once wished it could when you were regretting the good old days when a man could keep his unsuitable mistress hidden away , knowing she 'd be there waiting upon his pleasure , whenever he felt the urge and could spare the time to see her . |
| 22 | Some of us remember the old days when the NI was gloriously unpredictable — one month a short story taking up the whole magazine , the next a cartoon issue and then a bit later a fold-out world map . |
| 23 | Kept absolutely meticulous accounts , even in the old days when he was a kid . |
| 24 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 25 | Back to the bad old days when employers were so busy employing people to push bits of people round and see to inspectors that they did n't have anything to do with training an produced not one single job . |
| 26 | In the old days when there was a possibility of of erm ad hoc payments made , er that sort of thing was taken of , since the takeover of the company , that has n't happened to the same extent so there 's a very strong feeling with the older pay er pensioners that they paid money into a pension scheme which now shows a surplus , but other people are benefiting from it . |
| 27 | It reminded her of the old days when just a passing glance of his could reduce her to a state of burning confusion . |
| 28 | She 'd even felt the odd pang of nostalgia for the old days when she 'd been a young wet-behind-the-ears singer , just beginning to make her way up the ladder . |
| 29 | Concerned Crues Fan Yes , let's go back to the good old days when young , inexperienced Crusaders were getting stuffed every week . |
| 30 | And then in the old days when they used to have this body snatching , |