Example sentences of "in the [adj] day [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the pre-machinery days I used to start in August to hand knit gloves for my two school-boy sons . |
| 2 | In the early days we ventured further afield than we do now , working in Suffolk , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Surrey . |
| 3 | Even in the early days we used to do other slightly more bizarre tunings — then they got a lot more bizarre ! |
| 4 | ‘ In the early days we worried a bit about comeback , but over the years we 've just got more outrageous , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Vivien Saunders , who founded the Women 's Tour in Britain , will tell you that it was always thus : ‘ In the early days we were advised by the PGA that ours should be a democratic organisation and that the players should have a voice . |
| 6 | ‘ In the early days we were buying more paperback rights from other hardback publishers , because even five years ago there were more hardback publishers around that you could buy from . |
| 7 | what 's changed is that they in in the early days we used to get the offcuts and they they were ideally they used to put those through a hogger which is a thing that breaks it down and it 's these it 's worktops |
| 8 | ‘ In the early days we were not sure what was doing it , possibly otters or something , but now there are lots of ways of proving it 's the seals . |
| 9 | Erm well in the early days we had to take a kiddies bible school |
| 10 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
| 11 | In the early days she had been stung by criticism of the way she dressed . |
| 12 | In the early days she had had lots of quiet opinions , he remembered , which she had offered him , shyly slyly , couched as a kind of invitation or bait . |
| 13 | If in the early days she was chiefly responsible for shifting a lot of blue eyeliner and baseball caps , she gradually became an inspiration to the frail , the disadvantaged and the miserable . |
| 14 | In the early days she would go for an evening ‘ burn up ’ in her car around central London , leaving her armed Scotland Yard bodyguard behind . |
| 15 | In the early days it was seen as bringing a whirlwind of well-paid high-technology jobs to an area of record unemployment . |
| 16 | ‘ In the early days it was really difficult to find records . |
| 17 | In the early days it had looked as if the directors would be the key men in Hollywood and from all over America men anxious to use the format to say something had been attracted to the movies . |
| 18 | In the early days it was not always easily secured . |
| 19 | In the early days it was like cinema in the home , watched with rapt attention . |
| 20 | In the early days it was water , in the form of the " endless ocean to the west " , which was the first major obstacle for continental European explorers . |
| 21 | Although in the early days he was ungainly , he was very tall |
| 22 | As Bryan says , his main guitar is a Strat , although in the early days he used a Les Paul … |
| 23 | Well I say all his life er er early , in the early days he was er a groom to a veterinary surgeon in Manchester . |
| 24 | ‘ In the early days he was keen , but … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ In the early days I 'd say David was writing about 90 per cent of the songs . |
| 26 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ In the early days I always dreamed of going to the Olympics , doing well and then eventually turning professional . |
| 28 | In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position . |
| 29 | well in the early days I only got er , what was , what was your , yours a quarter horse power motor was n't it ? |
| 30 | In the intertestamental days we read of the Messiah , ‘ God will make him mighty in the Holy Spirit ’ ( Psalms of Solomon 17:37 ) , and in the Targum or Commentary on Isaiah 42 : 1 , the Servant is seen as the Messiah , and God says of him ‘ I will cause my Holy Spirit to rest on him . ’ |