Example sentences of "those days [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | In those days we thought he might be a ballet dancer ’ . |
2 | Of course in those days we used to go to Bournemouth . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |
5 | It gives an evocative glimpse of a winter landscape : ‘ In those days we travelled on push-bikes and the rampart right along to Ballinary was high and soft . |
6 | I heard the words of the Bible so often — in those days we also had RI , Religious Instruction — I came to love the stories and the literature . |
7 | In those days we would always start the hay-making at Hury , a parcel of land we owned two miles down the road . |
8 | In those days we had to use an oil wool , which was all right after you washed it , if somewhat coarse . |
9 | In those days we still were unclear about how the work would develop and whether we would move towards independence or not . |
10 | ‘ In those days we could run about the area bouncing the ball , but now things are more entertaining . ’ |
11 | In those days we had not a care in the world , the only thing that counted was the game in which we were playing . |
12 | ‘ In those days we were pretty precious about everything , ’ admits Veronica with a grin . |
13 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
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 | And there was a satisfaction about it although I always think in those days we had to work so fast that there was n't the time to do what you 'd really like to have done for the patients . |
16 | In those days we never danced . |
17 | The present generation should be informed that in those days we tended to talk about ‘ civilization ’ rather than ‘ culture ’ . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Now I know that some of those days we sort of said hi I 'm here naturally |
21 | In those days they were basically a mime company , though their grotesque appearance , and their ability to wring wild laughter from the depiction of desperate , squalid lives , marked them out as something special . |
22 | In those days they were automatically exempt until the first round proper . |
23 | In those days they had very few clothes . |
24 | 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 … |
25 | Yes the er the doctors were very very keen in those days they 'd repo , I remember Doctor telling me about a case on . |
26 | That 's another thing they used to do in those days they never do now , a lot of men when they bought a pair of boots , they had them what they called plumped . |
27 | Nowadays the rich snort coke ; in those days they got drunk and had orgies . ’ |
28 | Maybe if chlorophyll tablets bad been available in those days they might have helped but as it was I had tried everything . |
29 | And , and whenever they knew you 've come would you , would you walk through and , and they used to for us every time an tha and that in those days they 'd give you a couple of bob which is , it was a fortune to me at that age . |
30 | Boys in those days they were always given the best education . |