Example sentences of "day [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the early days everyone used to have a good time for real . |
| 2 | Some days everyone who wrote with their left hand automatically received two lengths of the corridor , and on other days it was people whose name began with the letter ‘ S' ’ . |
| 3 | These days everyone seems to be hopping on and off jets if only to go to the Spanish holiday resorts , but I have never left these shores . |
| 4 | These days everyone is becoming an expert in the nutritional value of different foods and the importance of vitamins and trace elements . |
| 5 | ‘ These days everyone uses computers , and I did n't want to look an idiot if I told people I did n't have a clue how to work one ! ’ |
| 6 | In the next two days everyone in Danu was put under terms of strict confinement . |
| 7 | But in the following days nothing changed . |
| 8 | For two days nothing beyond the ghost of the walnut tree showed through the flickering screen of brownish-yellow light . |
| 9 | In Italy these days nothing is certain . ’ |
| 10 | For two days nothing happened , but on the third morning I checked the tank and found that the fish had spawned . |
| 11 | So , he waited in for two days nothing ! |
| 12 | In those days no-one ventured out with dirty footwear no matter how poor they were . |
| 13 | One of these days I intend to read it . ’ |
| 14 | I have always had reasonable live-in accommodation ( having inspected it before accepting a position ) and , although on certain days I have worked non-stop , on others I have been very quiet and still received the same salary . |
| 15 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 16 | After a further few days I brought my suitcases up from London . |
| 17 | During the next two days I advised on industrial relations problems in catering , computers and property services and sent back three more folders of work to my line manager . |
| 18 | The worst thing about the job is dealing with bureaucracy while the best thing is the two or three days I spend each week out on the hill getting my hands dirty , visiting worksites and clients . |
| 19 | In those days I lived with my parents and when the film resurfaced at a local cinema I convinced them to spend an evening feasting their eyes on those sanguinary sapphics . |
| 20 | Today rucsacs can be delightful to carry , a world apart from my heap of the 1960s , but in those days I really did not like backpacking . |
| 21 | Most days I 'd go without food till I came home to cook the evening meal . |
| 22 | Since time is something I do n't have too much of these days I look for other solutions like hats , turbans , scarves or wigs and pieces . |
| 23 | In those days I used to hang out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street where all broke musicians hang out , and I remember his first single came out and he dragged me into the record store next door , Francis Day & Hunter , and he said , ‘ Have a listen to this ’ . |
| 24 | Nowadays , I would probably have a complete reverse opinion and say , ‘ Well done , David ’ , but in those days I honestly did n't care . |
| 25 | In my childish days I remember I used to fear to touch the little girls ' sleeves ; so it is now . |
| 26 | During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path . |
| 27 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 28 | These days I wear what I like without caring what anybody else thinks . |
| 29 | Some days I 'm happy with the way I look , others I 'm not . |
| 30 | Although I know that the amount of exercise I do will keep me fit , these days I feel guilty about doing ‘ so little ’ exercise . |