Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] days we " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | The present generation should be informed that in those days we tended to talk about ‘ civilization ’ rather than ‘ culture ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And in those days we required the money and er often , very often we had to do it to strengthen our wages a bit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |
| 7 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |