Example sentences of "[adv prt] in those [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd promise anything for a leg over in those days , he used to say , but I 've got more about me now .
2 Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really .
3 Perhaps , after all , sir , you could walk down Pennsylvania Avenue without being clapped in irons or whatever they do to you over in those parts .
4 Along Downing Street ( which was not railed off in those days ) and on the thresholds of other public buildings , pickets from the four main Civil Service trade unions were noisily demonstrating their disdain for the authority of a Labour government that was already on the skids .
5 The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days .
6 ‘ Everything was on and off in those days .
7 After all , South Africa was a long way off in those days and home leave must have been a great rarity . ’
8 Then a woman in the street — the Via Monserato , between the Tiber and the Farnese Square , they talked about it so much , Mena and my grandmother , when I was little , I think they talked about it every day : Il Quartiere Papale , it does have a magnificent sound , has n't it ? and so much of it a slum ; the rich live above on the piani nobili , the ground floors and cellars are rented out to artisans ; my mother , who was brought up in those streets , says to know them you must have breathed the air in the evenings when the wine-shops are full and they are lighting charcoal braziers on the pavements ; she says I will go one day , but I think I know already — well , a woman in Mena 's street who sold salad greens knew the cook who worked for Anna and the prince round the corner and Mena was given things to do in the kitchen .
9 If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better .
10 Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them .
11 Well I think much as I welcome the university proceeding down the road that it is , erm I have a very , very strong feeling that change is going to come from the bottom up , and I think that it 'll come from the bottom up in those colleges , like New College , who have got an increasingly large number of women fellows who feel that , you know , there 's safety in numbers and we can start to do something about it .
12 Day in and day out , today they can Same with old mowing machines , they used to go out To open a field up in those days , they used to have to go round with a scythe .
13 Having said that , in order to get into production , or even to use it , you ca n't just set up in those days any more than you can today , now you need planning permission to , you need .
14 Y y you need n't lock your door up in those days you could leave your door open , and they 'd come and knock on your door and anybody in and I , I do n't think we ever had a key to our front door , but er no they were very friendly and there used to be an old midwife , Mrs her name was the , she used to charge half a crown for a birth .
15 As we sat in the ATV canteen after recording the first eight episodes of The Power Game , he said : ‘ Think of all the fame stored up in those rolls of tape .
16 I shall suggest that caught up in those practices are in fact two different answers to this central question , each with its own implications for support work and criteria for evaluation , with the result that support teachers often feel themselves pulled in two directions at once .
17 ‘ Shut up in those harems ! ’
18 This does not reflect a radical social openness or free circulation of agents between social positions , since the offspring of the higher occupational grades still have a much greater relative chance of ending up in those grades than people from lower occupational backgrounds , but all the same it represents de facto social mobility on a large scale .
19 And er , they are actually a good description of what goes on in those departments and those that relate to these procedures .
20 And being part of the tradition , they are part of the way of going on in those sub-cultures .
21 ‘ Like I said , I enjoyed being with her , but you would have to be some kind of retard to get turned on in those scenes by thinking I am kissing a sex symbol …
22 A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there .
23 But that sort of thing went on in those days , money was physically handled all the time .
24 Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations .
25 Whatever had gone on in those weeks apart , whatever course of action their friends had counselled , a minor transformation had occurred .
26 An environmental survey and a study of inter-generational differences on family farms will be carried out in those areas .
27 ‘ Are you crazy , ’ he said to Bodo later , ‘ taking that guy out in those waves ?
28 And erm that 's when you er when you had your a a a new new rig out as they called it in those days , they called it a rig out , new rig out in those days .
29 Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more .
30 If a Government who embraced the social charter were returned from the Opposition parties , would we not soon be back in those waters and simply become an industrial desert ?
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