Example sentences of "[prep] [art] old days [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old days visitors to St Antony 's were pulled up in a basket through a trap-door which overhung the entrance . |
| 2 | Part of the problem here is that , whereas in the old days Fender , Gibson , Gretsch , Guild and Rickenbacker ( and of course Höfner , Burns and Framus etc. ) used their own distinctive hardware , every other modern guitar has a black Floyd , the same black locking nut , black Gotoh machines and black , open-topped ‘ SeyMarzio ’ pickups . |
| 3 | Football coach , Bear Bryant , is also a farmhand and in the old days farmhands used to guide a team of animals in front of the plough , encouraging them and making sure they all pulled together . |
| 4 | In the old days Luxor and Aswan were favourite winter haunts of a wealthy and leisured class of Europeans . |
| 5 | She says in the old days women used to look out for each other 's children . |
| 6 | Yes but then you see , in the ol in the old days Gordon , I mean , you we you were very fortunate if you got three meals a day and i and whatever you got you were glad of and used to eat it all . |
| 7 | In the old days Mum and Dad took the Daily Mirror , that was all . |
| 8 | In the old days princes were cold and bored . |
| 9 | Child 2 : ‘ Mummy says that in the old days daddy would have worked down a coal mine to make power for people , |
| 10 | In the old days factories used to have huge coal heaps outside in their yards . |
| 11 | In the old days Margaret Thatcher , who was instinctively pro-Israeli , kept the Arabism of the Foreign Office under her thumb . |
| 12 | In the old days people spoke of the development of character . |
| 13 | In the old days people used to put ashes on top , but I prefer to use a utensil and I take it out on to the pasture . |
| 14 | I think in the old days people were more tolerant towards each other . |
| 15 | In the old days manufacturers produced the goods and salesmen sold them with the help of advertising . |
| 16 | In the old days Ivan could swallow a bottle of vodka and keep his legs . |