Example sentences of "[conj] in those [noun] [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was that although in those days I was often homesick , missing Harry , missing Daisy , it was never unbearable . |
| 2 | ‘ Royal Glyn-Neath ’ , we call it , although in those days it was only a little nine-hole course . |
| 3 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 4 | Using a magnetometer , they found that only in the bones of the sinuses was magnetic remanence more than twice the background level — and in those bones it was up to 13 times background . |
| 5 | The district health authority received an unusual ECR and in those circumstances it was entitled to ensure that the use of resources involved in that decision was justified . |
| 6 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 7 | Men have always been hung up on breasts , especially American men , and in those days it was the only part of the body which could be shown . |
| 8 | Er you know I I I af I mean after I did n't think anything of it , and in those days I was too young of course to think of th things like that . |
| 9 | I was born in 1910 and my parents were therefore Victorian , and in those days you were told absolutely nothing . |
| 10 | Now I think they have sep little tables now but in those days they were long , just long trestle tables . |
| 11 | But in those days they were called temples , and gods lived in them . |
| 12 | Adam suspected that these days Rufus might be quite fastidious about wine , a wine snob even , the kind that savours bouquets and talks about nice little domestic burgundies and so forth , but in those days it was plonk he wanted . |
| 13 | Nowadays , people would n't put up with those circumstances , but in those days it was accepted as a fact of life . |
| 14 | but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing . |
| 15 | Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois . |
| 16 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 17 | Before quotas , about 50 per cent of the food energy going in to our dairy cows was in the form of cereals : food that could be directly used by man , because in those days it was cost-effective to get as much milk as possible out of individual cows . |
| 18 | I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience . |