Example sentences of "very [adj] [prep] [adj] day " in BNC.

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1 I 'm usually very sore for two days after a race .
2 But you know medicine was , was very different in those days .
3 ‘ Some of them are nearly six foot , ’ I said , ‘ And here I am , very small , very short , ’ and I was very slim in those days .
4 You had to be very careful in those days .
5 It must have been very hard in those days for parents with a large family and a very low income to clothe their children .
6 Grave-digging grave-digging was very hard in those days .
7 Oh I think the work the work was very hard in those days you know .
8 I mean really I er it shook me because I was extremely naive , I 'd had two children but I was very very naive in those days .
9 Things were not very good in those days , and the financial situation was very worrying .
10 Well most of the time yes Doctor pills were very very good in those days and then of course gin and loads of Epsom Salts brought you down to last leg , no wonder I 've got arthritis .
11 Grouse " potted whole , stowed singly into pots with clarified butter poured over " as described by Professor Saintsbury ( the old boy did n't miss much ) are infinitely enticing , exceedingly extravagant with butter and not very practical for these days , but you can make one young cooked grouse or partridge go a very long way by the simple method of chopping the flesh , freed from all skin and sinew with about one quarter of its weight in mild , rather fat , cooked ham .
12 So , you know , they were very strict in those days .
13 Discipline was very very strict in those days but of course with the war coming on and lots of those men going to the forces , things changed drastically during that time and discipline was somewhat more lax after the war .
14 As I say it was very very difficult in those days , you had to satisfy the Traffic Commissions .
15 Very necessary in these days .
16 So he got the bailiff 's job , going around , which was very necessary in those days .
17 Yes the er the doctors were very very keen in those days they 'd repo , I remember Doctor telling me about a case on .
18 Mary Finnigan : ‘ Angie was very young and very wild in those days — real madcap .
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