Example sentences of "days [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd been on the roads for days and they still retained their winter mire , despite the advent of finer spring weather .
2 He had studied at Chelsea in his apprenticeship days and his highly successful practice in Mark Lane enabled him to retire early to Eltham in Kent and to devote the rest of his days to his garden of rare plants , many of which were sent home by his brother from the Near East .
3 We start in ten days and I firmly rely on the goodness of Providence to grant me a safe and prosperous passage .
4 I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr .
5 Oh no I do n't do that , I dare n't it 's week days and I usually want to go off back to sleep
6 But , in all honesty , I do n't know how we got through those early days and I certainly would n't like to do so again . ’
7 I knew the clubhouse well from my amateur days and I quickly turned left , went through the main lounge ( to the horror of one member who recognised me not as a former amateur golfer but as a caddie , God dammit ) , through the back of the already busy bar and through the goods entrance , or exit in this case .
8 Striker Atkinson said : ‘ These are early days and I still do n't believe I have hit top form . ’
9 ‘ You can get them in Helsinki now , but at that time … anyway I had only been in New York for a couple of days and I only had the clothes I had taken with me .
10 It was a different ball-game in those days and you bloody well know it . ’
11 If Graeme Souness is going a bit thin on top , it is probably the result of watching Rosenthal on one of those days and he certainly has them when he seems incapable of getting anything right .
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