Example sentences of "in the [adj] days [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm well in the early days we had to take a kiddies bible school |
| 2 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
| 3 | ‘ In the early days we worried a bit about comeback , but over the years we 've just got more outrageous , ’ he says . |
| 4 | In the early days we ventured further afield than we do now , working in Suffolk , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Surrey . |
| 5 | In the early days she had been stung by criticism of the way she dressed . |
| 6 | In the early days she had had lots of quiet opinions , he remembered , which she had offered him , shyly slyly , couched as a kind of invitation or bait . |
| 7 | In the early days it had looked as if the directors would be the key men in Hollywood and from all over America men anxious to use the format to say something had been attracted to the movies . |
| 8 | As Bryan says , his main guitar is a Strat , although in the early days he used a Les Paul … |
| 9 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 10 | In the first days she said her one hope was that her children , isolated though they were , could feel ‘ held ’ in the same safe way . |
| 11 | At 1 p.m. it rode round Madrid with the other Councils in full dress to restore order and in the following days it co-operated with the French authorities in the collection of arms . |
| 12 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |
| 13 | In the old days we got on with the job , jollied staff along if they needed it , kicked the sluggards in the backside , encouraged the unconfident and persuaded a reluctant and sceptical police force to use us . |
| 14 | In the old days they carried twenty-four horses in a car , but there was no centre aisle , eh ? |
| 15 | No one had ever seen a bride or groom walk to their wedding ; even the very poor found a car for that day and in the old days they had gone by trap or sidecar . |
| 16 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |
| 17 | In the old days you kept your lunatics and your shapeless in the west wing , if you ran to one . |
| 18 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 19 | Or ‘ In the old days you had no government but you collected taxes from passers-by : you must have had a treasury ? ’ |
| 20 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 21 | Though in the old days it had been she who had braved her mother 's disapprobation and slipped out to enjoy herself , while her sister stuck grimly to her books and her duty and her long-term plans . |
| 22 | In the old days it had carried a full complement of aides , courtiers , ministers , secretaries and bodyguards . |
| 23 | In the old days it had all seemed worth it — she 'd enjoyed filling stockings and wading through a carpet of toys and dressing the tree and singing carols when they were little . |
| 24 | In the old days it needed a team of 20 women to do the equivalent job — and even then they did it less than half as fast . |
| 25 | In the pre-Marcus days she 'd seemed to have greater control over every aspect of her nervous system than she did now . |
| 26 | ‘ In the seven days we worked together , he kept making sexual advances , ’ she says . |
| 27 | Now we 've got burners , in the Montgolfier days they lit a bonfire underneath it , so we 've got a lot more control over it now . |
| 28 | Years ago they had all these narrow looms , about this size , and this is where women worked , they called it the narrow section , and maybe mostly for hotels or you know , in the olden days they had stair , your mother 'll probably , stair runners or holes and the , the carpet just went like that and there 'd be a piece of lino up the side , |