Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess . |
| 2 | Through all the drudgery ( as it may seem ) , cricketers should enjoy the fruits of what they do and achieve , but they should also remember to make friends and speak fondly of the game , and they will then want for nothing once their playing days are over . |
| 3 | As a manager he remains his own greatest fan and although his playing days are over , he was probably the most creative player on Rangers ' books : a genius in search of a mirror . |
| 4 | SHE had feared that she would not know him any more … that his 1,943 days of hell as a hostage would have left them strangers . |
| 5 | Still only 28 years old , Goram is imbued with the belief that his best days in the goalkeeping position that respects age have yet to come , and will be experienced over the next three years . |
| 6 | Some of the most eminent surgeons in London had assured him that his playing days were over . |
| 7 | She said I have my good days and my bad days , said I had bad day yesterday not too bad . |
| 8 | Och , I have my good days and my bad days . |
| 9 | It looks as if my galloping days are over in it ? |
| 10 | Life in South Africa , once he started dancing , was one long rush , and his early days in London too , but when he stopped dancing he was in an unusual position . |
| 11 | Indeed the first part of the book is by far the more revealing since his recent conquests are so much more celebrated than are the tales of his friendship form an early age with John Emburey , his innings of 87 at the age of 18 for the Ilford 1stXI against Trevor Bailey 's Westcliff and his early days with Essex when he would arrive at 2nd XI matches on a moped , his cricket bag strapped to his back . |
| 12 | My heart kept jumping as I read it , remembering Dana and our many days and nights together . |
| 13 | I have known her since my earliest days in publishing , when she played an important role in the launching of Paladin Books , and I have admired and learned from her every since … ’ |
| 14 | Nil desperandum STANLEY United tread the Wearside League too , though their better days , perhaps indisputably , lie elsewhere . |
| 15 | Normally , financial troubles and scandals around money visit players late in their lives , when their playing days are over and they are rehabilitating themselves back into the real world . |
| 16 | When his racing days are over , probably around the ripe old age of four , PJ will take his well-earned retirement with fellow pets Jessie the golden retriever and Bobby the cat at the family home in Hornchurch … and maybe catch up on some of that lost sleep ! |
| 17 | Music and horse racing are Quinn 's great passions outside football and when his playing days are over he would like to make a new career on the turf . |
| 18 | Savage was playing in the Bolton midfield when his playing days were cruelly cut short . |
| 19 | Savage was playing in the Bolton midfield when his playing days were cruelly cut short . |
| 20 | When his few days at Culbone were over , Coleridge descended again into the prosaic lowland world , and by 14 October was home at Lime Street , gloomy and impoverished . |
| 21 | Ronald Reagan 's serious interest in politics dates at least as far back as his early days in Hollywood and , given the later doubts about his intelligence , it is interesting to note that , at this stage , he hardly lived up to the image of an empty-headed film actor . |