Example sentences of "old days [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the old days we should have thrown a guinea-fowl or a few warthog piglets in , too . |
| 2 | In the old days we got on with the job , jollied staff along if they needed it , kicked the sluggards in the backside , encouraged the unconfident and persuaded a reluctant and sceptical police force to use us . |
| 3 | ‘ In the old days we could rely on the same spectators attending match after match , whatever the weather or the results . |
| 4 | In the old days we simply could n't afford to do that . |
| 5 | In the old days we simply could n't afford to do that . |
| 6 | In the old days we used to have very inefficient coal fires , burning in open grates , which to produce a reasonable heat used a significant amount of fuel . |
| 7 | No one had ever seen a bride or groom walk to their wedding ; even the very poor found a car for that day and in the old days they had gone by trap or sidecar . |
| 8 | In the old days they would be feeding the poor at the castle gate . |
| 9 | In old days they put mountain ash berries and a cast horseshoe over the lintel to frighten away the Fairy Folk . |
| 10 | In the old days they carried twenty-four horses in a car , but there was no centre aisle , eh ? |
| 11 | In the old days they all played cards . |
| 12 | And of course in the old days they just were n't available because they were n't on the market . |
| 13 | Our ships may be small , Mr. Mottram , but in the old days they were liners — that is , they made regular , scheduled runs from various ports on the Continent to the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | ‘ In the old days they 'd have thumped enough into him to get him through his exam . |
| 15 | Ah ha , but in the old days they used to have |
| 16 | In the old days they used to have little houses close together called begins with T |
| 17 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |
| 18 | In the old days she and Adam had often come to Starr Hills ; it was lonely , with no one to shout ‘ Crazy Demdykes ’ after them , and they 'd played intense , obsessive games of treasure-hunting amongst the junk . |
| 19 | In the old days she would 'ave joined the Salvation Army . ’ |
| 20 | In those bad old days she would even shine his shoes for him , and beg for the privilege of hosing down his car . |
| 21 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 22 | Or ‘ In the old days you had no government but you collected taxes from passers-by : you must have had a treasury ? ’ |
| 23 | It was one of the only places that you could get banjo strings to put on the top , because in the old days you could n't get thin guitar strings . |
| 24 | In the bad old days you could go crazy trying to match a driver 's configuration to the switch settings on a LAN card . |
| 25 | In the old days you kept your lunatics and your shapeless in the west wing , if you ran to one . |
| 26 | In the old days you were done for . |
| 27 | It 's obviously a show , and I mean you could well imagine that in the old days you need horses were really used to do a full day 's work , they did n't have quite such er nice clean tack a as these ones . |
| 28 | In the good old days you had lots of career men . |
| 29 | And that in itself was a form of antiquity you know , it it it is it went back to the old days you see . |
| 30 | Now one hundred and nineteen for four , Tufnell bowls this one , forward goes and the ball trickles up towards and another maiden over so now they 've had sixteen overs , ten maidens for seventeen and er I think in the old days you would have been quite proud of those figures erm Victor . |