Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adj] days " in BNC.

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2 But it is you I want to stand behind me at my coronation three days from now .
3 I rarely talk to my parents these days , or visit the family home .
4 Maybe it is a sign of age taking its toll , but sexual imagery does n't command much of my attention these days .
5 ‘ The only thing I shoot into my veins these days is formaldehyde , Annie , ’ she said .
6 The above quotations are part of a large batch of letters forwarded from the BBC which arrived on my mat ten days after the programme went out .
7 I was then able to use this in my Elu96 router along with templates I had made to cut the mitres on both rails and uprights ( the router seems to be the most important part of my kit these days ) .
8 He informed us in a haughty spirit that he would give my people thirty days to go back home , collect all their stock , and move to the reservation , saying , ‘ If you are not here in that time , I shall consider that you want to fight , and will send my soldiers to drive you on ’ .
9 When ordering my lunches these days , I try to avoid the use of the term ‘ packed lunch ’ and merely ask if I can be supplied with certain items in a bag to take away .
10 My head 's up my Khyber these days .
11 Makes me introspective about certain things missing from my life these days . ’
12 Daytime hats — that 's my style these days . ’
13 She thought , men are always holding my hand these days .
14 On one occasion , with no advance notice , my salary was paid into my account seven days late .
15 ‘ Not much in my bag these days .
16 As an academic critic and university teacher specializing in modern literature and literary theory , I spend much or my time these days reading books and articles that I can barely understand and that cause my wife ( a graduate with a good honours degree in English language and literature ) to utter loud cries of pain and nausea if her eye happens to fall on them .
17 This animal had begun to grunt and go off her milk two days ago and when I had seen her yesterday I had flirted from one possibility to the other .
18 She would let me brush her hair some days .
19 Wendy , from Longforgan , near Dundee died with her parents at her side 24 days after the op .
20 You can see the panic in their eyes these days , right down to the ants .
21 Even more unbelievably Maisie thought Arfur was , to use a word too much on her lips these days , ‘ cute ’ .
22 CORONATION Street star Lynne Perrie was said to be improving in the hospital where she is undergoing tests following her collapse two days ago .
23 Many couples seem to be experimenting with their roles these days . ’
24 In their South African days the kindergarten showed little interest in the uplift of native races .
25 The latter is what the youth of Tel Aviv like to hear on their transistors these days .
26 The women 's eight , who won their Head of the Float race this season , challenge in the women 's regatta starting on June 20 , while the men 's eight start their campaign 10 days later .
27 Richard Miles ' body was discovered by his mother in the back garden of their home eight days ago .
28 Grandmother Hilda Mason , of Clapham , south London , said : ‘ I 'm heartbroken but it seems to be the way young people go about their business these days . ’
29 The verse in the Bible which has been most misquoted and misunderstood is Leviticus 15.19 , which says : ‘ And if a woman have an issue , and her issue in her flesh be blood , she shall be in her impurity seven days ; and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even . ’
30 The only people left in London who put their name on their doorbells these days were called Monica or Helga , and there was rarely a surname .
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