Example sentences of "back in the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to tell himself that it did n't matter , that you could find the same situation all over the West End ; back in the long-lost days of sweetness and light he could remember taking his wife to a performance of Jesus Christ , Superstar when it had gone through so many cast changes that no-one was even bothering to count , and what a bunch of wankers they 'd been . |
| 2 | I played that on almost every album back in the early days ; it 's a black one and it 's a beautiful guitar . ’ |
| 3 | Erm er it 's basically that there is no stated requirement at present from any of the four nations , for this aircraft to operate on ships er back in the early days of the programme when the the French were involved er we looked at the possibility of designing an aircraft er to provide the whole spectrum of capabilities from air defence er ground attack and also maritime operations off ships and er we we certainly experienced some difficulties in reconciling all those things in one design , which was adequately capable in each of the areas . |
| 4 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 5 | Even now , a hard up local could be sure of a free pint just by telling Knocker he had watched him fight at Gloucester 's annual Barton Fair , back in the old days . |
| 6 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 7 | way back in the old days but Now then , |
| 8 | ‘ They built things differently back in the old days . |
| 9 | Back in the bad days , working for the Mason , his reflection in a church window or a bowl of washing water had stared out at him like an evil spirit — all girlish , sheepish , wimpish . |