Example sentences of "in [det] days [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would sit outside wait in that days we had a seat out in the and even if was a seat for sitting outside they would sit on their own way or on a rock . |
| 2 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , syllabubs were sometimes made with the juice of Seville oranges , and in these days we can devise cream and wine or cream and fruit-syrup syllabubs to suit ourselves . |
| 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 | How many hundreds or thousands of those gallons were tipped into the saucepans the report does not reveal , but certain it is that in these days it is not at all uncommon to find dishes of chicken , langouste or lobster flambé au whisky on the menus of French provincial and Parisian restaurants . |
| 6 | Er but as I say , I was n't very long at that so er when I came back to the , the motor trade , and bicycle trade , motor trade , cars in these days you get a variety of er all sorts of cars . |
| 7 | I can remember it well , it was lit by gas e even in these days you know it would have been all electric light but it was gas and er we had erm , I would go for engineering drawing and maths probably I think . |
| 8 | In these days I am middle-aged and relatively inexperienced , ’ he joked . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In those days we thought he might be a ballet dancer ’ . |
| 11 | Of course in those days we used to go to Bournemouth . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |
| 14 | It gives an evocative glimpse of a winter landscape : ‘ In those days we travelled on push-bikes and the rampart right along to Ballinary was high and soft . |
| 15 | I heard the words of the Bible so often — in those days we also had RI , Religious Instruction — I came to love the stories and the literature . |
| 16 | In those days we would always start the hay-making at Hury , a parcel of land we owned two miles down the road . |
| 17 | In those days we had to use an oil wool , which was all right after you washed it , if somewhat coarse . |
| 18 | In those days we still were unclear about how the work would develop and whether we would move towards independence or not . |
| 19 | ‘ In those days we could run about the area bouncing the ball , but now things are more entertaining . ’ |
| 20 | In those days we had not a care in the world , the only thing that counted was the game in which we were playing . |
| 21 | ‘ In those days we were pretty precious about everything , ’ admits Veronica with a grin . |
| 22 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 23 | And in those days we required the money and er often , very often we had to do it to strengthen our wages a bit . |
| 24 | And there was a satisfaction about it although I always think in those days we had to work so fast that there was n't the time to do what you 'd really like to have done for the patients . |
| 25 | In those days we never danced . |
| 26 | The present generation should be informed that in those days we tended to talk about ‘ civilization ’ rather than ‘ culture ’ . |
| 27 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 28 | He was a superb horseman and in those days we had many more horses here , bloodstock that was famous as even now these horses are . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In those days they were automatically exempt until the first round proper . |