Example sentences of "past [adj] day [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been interesting these past few days to watch the energy of the sun through the effect that it 's had on the snow . |
| 2 | That had always been the constitutional position , he said , but the big demonstrations of the past few days had proved that he had a popular mandate too . |
| 3 | I had not realised until that moment how tense the past few days had made me . |
| 4 | But the past few days had been depressing . |
| 5 | It meant that the moor had in the past few days become known not as somewhere unique and beautiful but as the place where a young girl had been killed . |
| 6 | I have visited Southampton within the past few days to see what had become of one of the subsidiaries there Hampshire Bus . |
| 7 | The anxieties and misgivings of the past few days disappeared as though they had never been , as Johnny kissed her and touched her and told her of his need for her ; of his despair when she had not come to him . |
| 8 | Ironically , Mr Yeltsin 's studious absence from public view for the past few days forced the two parties to seek a solution and not wait for him to intervene . |
| 9 | The past few days seemed to hang like a heavy stormcloud over the room , seething with half-truths and suspicion , misunderstandings and mistakes . |
| 10 | As she drifted mindlessly in the shimmering water all her resistance to the past few days seemed to be dissolving away within the strength and power of his embrace . |
| 11 | The number of advances made in the past few days has sharply increased as companies attempt to match their rivals and allay the tax fears of senior staff . |
| 12 | All the sound and fury of the past few days has been a desperate diversion designed first to draw attention away from the unemployment figures , the inflation figures , and the figures for businesses closed and homes repossessed ; and , secondly , to draw attention away from what the Labour party is actually saying , and for the simplest of all reasons — they know it makes sense . |
| 13 | The events of the past few days have led several ministers to recognise the difficulty of restoring full authority to the Chancellor while the Prime Minister persists in her hostility to the EMS . |
| 14 | Events of the past few days have pointed yet again to the pressing need to abolish the television licence fee and leave the BBC to fend for itself financially . |
| 15 | The Prince and Princess are always kept in close touch with coverage of their activities , and the past few days have been no exception . |
| 16 | The scale of the disaster which has slowly emerged over the past four days has shaken those who are working to tackle the crisis . |
| 17 | The past two days had passed quickly , so quickly in fact that the events of those four days were somewhat hazy . |
| 18 | And , if she 'd had any illusions about being able to deceive him , his behaviour over the past two days had put paid to that . |
| 19 | That is precisely where we have been , which is why so many of the decisions reached in the past two days have been on British initiatives that have been accepted across the whole of Europe . |
| 20 | The bulldozer which had stood dormant for the past two days coughed into life and rumbled towards the prison gates . |