Example sentences of "[pron] in those [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was — there must have been — someone in those bushes over there . ’ |
| 2 | It should be remembered that a serving sergeant pilot ( as we called ourselves in those days ) had little clue about the policy that emerged from Arthur Marshall ( Air Ministry ) when the plans for one White Paper were never implemented before another White Paper overtook it . |
| 3 | Then , too , there are the marginals who somehow seep into the paddock , and one of my unhappiest memories of Emerson 's decline has to do with the opening of the season which in those years invariably began with the Argentine and the Brazilian grands prix . |
| 4 | The connection led to an invitation to drive in FI for Ferrari , an arrangement which in those years seems to have been a rather casual affair . |
| 5 | This instrument had been introduced in the West in the eleventh century from the world of Islam , which in those days enjoyed a higher degree of civilization and of scientific and technological expertise than the West . |
| 6 | It was knocked down to Father for £1,600 , which in those days — it was the 1920s — was a very high price . |
| 7 | To his surprise he discovered that it produced in him the symptoms and signs of the illness which it was used to treat , namely malaria , which in those days was known as intermittent fever . |
| 8 | Lying on the back seat , Adam recited ‘ Grantchester ’ , which in those days he knew by heart : |
| 9 | Eventually the Orcs sent to the east for reinforcements , and a huge Orc army headed up towards the Black Fire Pass from the Badlands , which in those days encompassed the whole of the area which would come to be known as the Border Princes . |
| 10 | Without a lemon to squeeze on to fried or grilled fish , no lemon juice to sharpen the flatness of the dried pulses — the red lentils , the split peas — which in those days loomed so largely in our daily diet , no lemon juice to help out the stringy ewe-mutton and the ancient boiling fowls of the time , no lemon juice for pancakes , no peel to grate into cake mixtures and puddings , we felt frustrated every time we opened a cookery book or picked up a mixing bowl . |
| 11 | Mary Ann Evans 's , the oldest , poshest store in town , which was always , out of respect , called by its full name , never simply Evans 's , and which in those days still had the old-fashioned lifts with wood-panelling and carpets and concertina doors , and uniformed attendants who called out the wares on each floor . |
| 12 | Forty thousand pounds he had paid for it , a sum which now seemed laughably small , but which in those days had been a vast amount to pay for a private house , even in such a prime position . |
| 13 | this would have meant anything to them , then , as they drank their Nescafé , which in those days came not in granules in jars but in powder in tins with brown , cream and white labels : tins which cost 2 s .6 d . |
| 14 | Founded in 1878 , the CBS was one of a network of societies which in those days provided not only private financial insurance against adversity but social fellowship in regional lodges , where members referred to themselves as " brothers " . |
| 15 | We did quite well with routine seizures in the anchorages of the Bristol Channel and even better in the more sheltered confines of the South Wales ports , which in those days were rather more busy than they are today . |
| 16 | We covered a lot of sea miles in the Bristol Channel that year , taking in most of the ports , including the long haul up the Avon to Bristol Docks which in those days were still open to commercial traffic . |
| 17 | When this operation was completed our shore unit moved in to seize a total of 196 kilos of cannabis which in those days was worth well over £300,000 , while Alert intercepted Cornish Lady before she was able to escape . |
| 18 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 19 | being the Chief Clerk and then turned left and down quite a long corridor , which in those days was erm shorned up with four by four timber posts because er , presumably they thought if the County Hall got a direct hit the ceiling might come down |
| 20 | He joined the Company as a malt packer in 1966 , which in those days involved loading malt in bags onto lorries and railway carries at the nearby station . |
| 21 | However , initially , its biggest support came from the planning profession which in those days still saw planning in terms of tidy spatial ordering of land uses . |
| 22 | I already had a coat , which in those days was my pride and joy , so I went in , tried it on and paid £55 . |
| 23 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 24 | Peter , unable to bear such a pedestrian first appointment ( he saw himself in those days as a fervent worker priest ) , chafed almost from their arrival . |
| 25 | In 1924 , the All Blacks undertook internal matches against Auckland and Manawatu as preparation for a European tour and promptly lost 14-3 to Auckland , who in those days were nothing like the force they are now . |
| 26 | The star is Jamie Lee Curtis , who in those days , well before A Fish Called Wanda , was the acknowledged holder of the ‘ scream queen ’ title which had once rested on the shapely shoulders of Evelyn Ankers . |
| 27 | Bad behaviour was expected of you in those times . |
| 28 | Good headlines did scream at you in those days . |
| 29 | Crouched over the table at home endeavouring to scarf up all those little facts they required of you in those days ( what is Bauxite ? when should you employ j'eusse , tu eusses , il eusse ? what are the consequences of heating copper in a stream of chlorine gas ? ) and praying that the fuckers would leave the lights on until you 'd done just this bit ? |
| 30 | erm how did that e wh wh what did your father pay you in those days for that ? |