Example sentences of "to [pos pn] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Iran , weary and broke after its war with Iraq , has waved goodbye to its proselytising days , this is a valid reason for easing it out of its isolation and back to the position in Gulf politics which , from the shah on , it has craved and which reflects the size of its population and length of its coastline . |
| 2 | She skipped in the stableyard and jumped up and down off orange boxes in the storeroom and occasionally thought back to her carefree days before Sylvester went mad on their behalf . |
| 3 | Certainly — she hoped — not Luke himself , and while her acquaintance with Florian Jones went back to their high-school days in South Africa , she knew he was impervious to anything that did not affect him directly . |
| 4 | If radical politics have provided one consistent thread in his career , cricket has been another — going back to his early days in Derbyshire when he played for Littleover in the Notts & Derby Border League and was taught to bowl legcutters by twice-capped county coach Denis Smith : ‘ I suppose I ultimately failed him because in my rebelliousness I refused to have a decent short haircut , ’ he recalls . |
| 5 | He also has a collection of Rentokil news letters going back to his early days which made for fascinating reading after dinner . |
| 6 | In looking back to his playing days , you can not think of him without Jim Shackleton . |
| 7 | Mr Depardieu also delights in adding lurid colour to his teenage days on the streets of Châteauroux . |
| 8 | Up to his last days , he regularly walked his dogs , and was on the point of doing so on his usual route from his home — the oldest lived-in wooden house in London , built in 1483 — when he had his fatal fall . |
| 9 | Such feelings belong to a whole realm of events and reactions often stretching back many years to our earliest days . |
| 10 | The Lancashire KFA ( whose members are frequent visitors to our own Days and Rallies ) have invited Beryl Beddows to give their teachers a Medau session in October — a very nice complement ! |