Example sentences of "[prep] those days [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure that one of those days the dog 's jealousy and the child 's charisma , or the combination of both , will lead to grief . |
| 2 | ( Incidentally , oranges and nuts seem to have occupied in the social life of those days the place soft drinks and ice cream occupy today , being consumed in great quantities even in the most dignified circles . ) |
| 3 | Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven . |
| 4 | It is a mark of the extraordinary faithfulness of St. Mark to the historical situation of the life of Jesus that he does not read back into those days the experience of the Spirit to which he and his friends were used in the post-resurrection era . |
| 5 | In those days no freedom of contract meant clubs had long serving players . |
| 6 | In those days a mill was sold on the basis of good wind and being near the top of a hill . |
| 7 | Altogether different was Vivian Bowden , now Lord Bowden of Chesterfield , in those days a man of frenetic and driving energy . |
| 8 | In those days a man was allocated duties , it is true they tried to arrange that he was on early spread , medium or late duties but it did n't always work out because of holidays , sickness or that but erm there were no restriction on hours . |
| 9 | In those days a man would run in about half past eleven at night and he could very well be on an early shift the next day . |
| 10 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 11 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 12 | It was more that it was genuinely in those days a club . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In those days a wing commander engineering officer was still a GD pilot but after the long course ( I think it was at Henlow , on engineering ) they devoted all their energies to full time engineering . |
| 15 | In those days the caddies had to carry only half-a-dozen clubs with hickory shafts . |
| 16 | In those days the owners were the managers . |
| 17 | I should have taken the set back and demanded that the shop or manufacturer replace it , but in those days the attitude was that it was a privilege to buy something , and it was just your bad luck if it turned out to be faulty . |
| 18 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 19 | Of course , in those days the mistress was generally kept by her lover , set up in a cosy little love-nest somewhere , her accounts settled with no questions asked … |
| 20 | In those days the licensing laws were very strict , especially for off-licence sales , except that all kinds of liquer could he ordered and delivered . |
| 21 | The difference being , of course , that in those days the phenomenon of semi-literacy did not exist and readers of Disraeli 's or Thackeray 's novels would neither mistake them for the real world , nor read them to the exclusion of all real political texts . |
| 22 | In those days the prostate was so far below the standard of respectability that it could not even have been mentioned in the newspaper . |
| 23 | In those days the field was small and consisted mostly of farmers . |
| 24 | In those days the government assessed local authority needs according to a very in the grant related expenditure assessment , G R E A , greas and this is much more complex and sensitive measure of how much it costs to run a city and in those days what the government thought we should be spending and what we thought we should be spending seemed in fact to be very close indeed . |
| 25 | In those days the warriors fought by day — in the open — and at night they dressed one another 's wounds . |
| 26 | The symphonies are full of difficulties and in those days the orchestras had not always the resources we have today . |
| 27 | In those days the Customs officers were still sufficiently unfamiliar with tourists and their toys to have difficulty distinguishing between amateur and professional equipment . |
| 28 | As a header of the ball he was phenomenal and it is amazing how many of his goals came from his head , while he possessed an extremely powerful shot — and remember that in those days the leather ball collected any moisture on the pitch and could finish up weighing several pounds ! |
| 29 | In those days the names of intelligence chiefs were guarded by the D-Notice system so British newspapers tended not to publish them . |
| 30 | In those days the paper had sold 5.25 million copies and had been respected for its powerful , picture-led campaigning journalism , its commitment to the Labour Party , and the chord it struck with its primarily working-class readership . |