Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] days [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was that although in those days I was often homesick , missing Harry , missing Daisy , it was never unbearable . |
| 2 | ‘ Royal Glyn-Neath ’ , we call it , although in those days it was only a little nine-hole course . |
| 3 | Ezra was a cobbler who also acted as a local estate agent , although in those days he would n't have recognised the term . |
| 4 | ‘ Duart is forbidden visitors today , my lady , so that in two days he may be fit for the ceremony . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The present generation should be informed that in those days we tended to talk about ‘ civilization ’ rather than ‘ culture ’ . |
| 8 | Er nowadays so many things are just accepted that in those days they would n't be . |
| 9 | Cos in those days they did n't . |
| 10 | Yes cos in those days you see if you remember they were all erm amateurs that played . |
| 11 | The basilica was badly damaged in the ninth century earthquake , and in Medieval days it was used , like the Colosseum , as a quarry for building . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | the thing and in those days they used to have the punched cards , you know , erm they still have this |
| 14 | And in those days we required the money and er often , very often we had to do it to strengthen our wages a bit . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Men have always been hung up on breasts , especially American men , and in those days it was the only part of the body which could be shown . |
| 17 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 18 | Er you know I I I af I mean after I did n't think anything of it , and in those days I was too young of course to think of th things like that . |
| 19 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 20 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
| 21 | I was born in 1910 and my parents were therefore Victorian , and in those days you were told absolutely nothing . |
| 22 | ‘ I started training modest horses and in those days you could make it pay by running them in selling races . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 24 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Now I think they have sep little tables now but in those days they were long , just long trestle tables . |
| 27 | But in those days they were called temples , and gods lived in them . |
| 28 | Reference is often made to Britain 's honourable and proud tradition of welcoming refugees , but in those days they consisted mainly of persecuted individuals . |
| 29 | I saw that the wing commander engineering , who also was a pilot ( but in those days they did an engineering course as we had no Engineering Officers , at least I do not remember any ) opened his window in the office and climbed out . |
| 30 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |