Example sentences of "[subord] in those [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 There is an appropriation where in those circumstances he later assumes " a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner " .
2 So it was that although in those days I was often homesick , missing Harry , missing Daisy , it was never unbearable .
3 ‘ Royal Glyn-Neath ’ , we call it , although in those days it was only a little nine-hole course .
4 Ezra was a cobbler who also acted as a local estate agent , although in those days he would n't have recognised the term .
5 Cos in those days they did n't .
6 Yes cos in those days you see if you remember they were all erm amateurs that played .
7 ‘ Just pray we do n't get a North Atlantic fog , because in those latitudes we could roll in the swells for days , with the moisture beading the shrouds and the air as cold as charity , and always being terrified that a super-tanker will barrel out of the muck at full speed to thump you under her bows without even knowing you were ever there . ’
8 Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves …
9 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 .
10 On the last day Seve birdied the first hole and Hale took a six on the second , I can remember the scoring because in those days I had to mark all the cards , and I remember putting Irwin down for a six — and then the card blew in to the bunker on the second and I had to go chasing after it .
11 Before quotas , about 50 per cent of the food energy going in to our dairy cows was in the form of cereals : food that could be directly used by man , because in those days it was cost-effective to get as much milk as possible out of individual cows .
12 I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience .
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