Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | They recalled their first days . |
| 2 | MANAGER Colin Galloway recalled his early days as an apprentice with The National Commercial Bank of Scotland when he retired after 34 years ' service . |
| 3 | But the phone WAS cut off — and although it was reconnected , Mr Bedi claimed his five days without a line cost him £5,000 . |
| 4 | Charity enjoyed her two days off . |
| 5 | Here , 600 Nez Perce enjoyed their last days of freedom , digging the bountiful camas , dancing , gambling and racing their horses . |
| 6 | Lawrence spent his final days in the company of Mabel Dodge Luhan — the heiress whose home in Greenwich Village had been the spawning ground of some of America 's most famous pre-World War I radical and literary figures — and , thus , provided an oddly suitable setting for the desolate position in which Hopper found himself . |
| 7 | They were joined by John McCarthy , who spent his first days of freedom at the airbase after five and a half years as a hostage . |
| 8 | Among the more bizarre events after Mr Hancock 's demise was a police swoop on the quarters where he spent his last days . |
| 9 | KING CHARLES I spent his last days and very last night as a free man in Stamford at the house of Alderman Richard Wolph in Barn Hill ( on the site of the present Stukeley House ) . |
| 10 | His only modern biographer suggests that he spent his last days in extreme poverty at an advanced age , an ironical end for someone who had accounted meticulously for the handling of millions of pounds and had been listed by name in an Act of Parliament . |
| 11 | ‘ Your sister 's son spent his last days with me . |
| 12 | For those who regarded Levi 's ads as style-pointers , the romanticised teendream of Fifties Americana indulged their Happy Days mid-west , small-town fantasies . |
| 13 | Princes William , 10 , and Harry , eight , last saw her six days ago before travelling to Sandringham , Norfolk , to spend Christmas with the Queen , Prince Charles , and the rest of the Royal Family . |
| 14 | ‘ I last saw her eight days before she was found . |
| 15 | " You saw her two days ago ? " |
| 16 | Appropriately we discussed his halcyon days on the eve of the Edgbaston Test when Sussex were playing Warwickshire in a Championship match at Hove . |
| 17 | I remembered our last days in my hotel room , their fevered , unhappy intensity , with the already-hot Spanish sun blazing down outside the shutters . |
| 18 | We tried to keep those as well , in memory of them , although we did not know which part of the year they had their twelve days . ’ |
| 19 | Margaret knew she was n't the easiest person to live with , she knew she had her mad days , but Dorothy tolerated , accepted , got on with her career . |
| 20 | Mother also had her bad days , fishing . |