Example sentences of "in [adj] days they " in BNC.
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1 | In 2 days they will have hatched and can be transferred to the aquarium ( containing a salt solution ) where they can be kept at room temperature like water-fleas . |
2 | In old days they put mountain ash berries and a cast horseshoe over the lintel to frighten away the Fairy Folk . |
3 | In these days they were feared of their job . |
4 | But they just in these days they just looked at them and said , Alright . |
5 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
6 | In three days they covered 400 miles . |
7 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
8 | In those days they were basically a mime company , though their grotesque appearance , and their ability to wring wild laughter from the depiction of desperate , squalid lives , marked them out as something special . |
9 | In those days they were automatically exempt until the first round proper . |
10 | In those days they had very few clothes . |
11 | 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 … |
12 | Yes the er the doctors were very very keen in those days they 'd repo , I remember Doctor telling me about a case on . |
13 | That 's another thing they used to do in those days they never do now , a lot of men when they bought a pair of boots , they had them what they called plumped . |
14 | Nowadays the rich snort coke ; in those days they got drunk and had orgies . ’ |
15 | Maybe if chlorophyll tablets bad been available in those days they might have helped but as it was I had tried everything . |
16 | And , and whenever they knew you 've come would you , would you walk through and , and they used to for us every time an tha and that in those days they 'd give you a couple of bob which is , it was a fortune to me at that age . |
17 | Boys in those days they were always given the best education . |
18 | Cos in those days they did n't . |
19 | Er nowadays so many things are just accepted that in those days they would n't be . |
20 | I do n't sort of , I mean in those days they had wh apprenticeships and , and that sort of thing . |
21 | Now I think they have sep little tables now but in those days they were long , just long trestle tables . |
22 | But in those days they were called temples , and gods lived in them . |
23 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
24 | the thing and in those days they used to have the punched cards , you know , erm they still have this |
25 | Reference is often made to Britain 's honourable and proud tradition of welcoming refugees , but in those days they consisted mainly of persecuted individuals . |
26 | In those days they lived next door but now they 've only got their offices there . |
27 | Well , you were talking flying the horses around putting them in horses boxes well in those days they did n't have many vehicles did they ? |
28 | In those days they were very good at Leeds , I got a nice letter back and was also sent some programmes and stuff . |
29 | I saw that the wing commander engineering , who also was a pilot ( but in those days they did an engineering course as we had no Engineering Officers , at least I do not remember any ) opened his window in the office and climbed out . |
30 | In those days they were small holdings . |