Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The filters were washed to 2 SSC , 0.1% SDS at 65°C and autoradiographies were for 2 days . |
| 2 | ‘ Then it would surprise you , perhaps , to learn that Kao Chen was one of the two assassins you were after that day ten years ago . ’ |
| 3 | Most castles , it is true , were to be reduced to the state they were in fifteen days before the outbreak of war ; but others were to be razed to the ground . |
| 4 | Er , he were in all day yesterday and , then he disappeared this morning . |
| 5 | The barren heights of Bodmin Moor now not surprisingly among the most lightly populated areas of Cornwall , were in ancient days the most densely settled . |
| 6 | One mistake and we were in next day for two hours . |
| 7 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 8 | I never met her and it was just talk in the shops , the corner shops were in those days were the gossip places , you know . |
| 9 | And they had a shop on Vale as well and a shop in erm on , big s store on Road at but that was the Cop , independent Coop you see , like they all were in those days , the Coop , the Coop and so on , had a Coop , had a Coop , had a Coop at er , they 've all had three shops . |
| 10 | ‘ One day we went for a walk in woods to the north of London near Barnet , I think , I no longer recall the name , except that they were in those days very pretty and lonely woods for a place so near London . |
| 11 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 12 | You know , people And I did n't , well you were suppose Well we did mark the book at perhaps a p a pound to a book you know , like they were in those days . |
| 13 | Yes , I , I was actually just saying to my wife last night , erm , who would have ever thought that in the same year , we could have lost two of the greatest wing-halves , as they were in those days , but I suppose mid-field players they 'd be known as today , who 'd |
| 14 | were in those days , the accordion bands . |
| 15 | But er that was one of the things er he kep it was an enjoyable trip and the roads were in these days , er you get the motorways today , I just think on the roads , what they were in these days , there was even some places we went through a ford in the middle of the road , with the water about two or three inches deep . |
| 16 | But er that was one of the things er he kep it was an enjoyable trip and the roads were in these days , er you get the motorways today , I just think on the roads , what they were in these days , there was even some places we went through a ford in the middle of the road , with the water about two or three inches deep . |
| 17 | Their mothers and sisters looked upon them in a new way , because until now they had been sons and brothers , but were from that day to be turned into men by the strictest mistress of all . |
| 18 | When Michael Marks first wheeled his Penny Bazaar barrow into Leeds Market in 1884 , he can have had little idea that his actions were to one day progress Marks and Spencer to become the nation 's leading retailer . |
| 19 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 20 | to , to , I mean when I first had the er plaster off , which was for ten days it was , I could not believe it that these fingers were not going but I 'm told that that 's quite usual . |
| 21 | Descended from Ferdinand Franz Wallraf , who with Johann Richardt had founded Cologne 's great museum , Paul lived in what was for post-war days a sizeable apartment with large rooms . |
| 22 | She 'd had a 24-hour labour but often said she did n't know what all the fuss was about these days . |
| 23 | Days when my mind was like those days , grey and comfortless for no particular reason . |
| 24 | That was in two days ' time . |
| 25 | Her sister was married to William de Morgan , that had the pottery , and made these kind of tiles , that was in Victorian days , you must remember . |
| 26 | That was in three days . |
| 27 | A real heavy duty place it was in those days |
| 28 | It was in those days , then , prompted by my natural admiration for the lady , that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment . |
| 29 | Sooner , rather than later , and generally after a few stiff drams , Joicey would break into the Gaelic , roaring and shouting at the top of his voice : ‘ Man to man it was in those days . |
| 30 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |