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

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1 In those Whig-dominated years he found that England was preponderantly not Whig but Tory ; he found that a corruption-wielding establishment could win elections only in the , numerically preponderant , boroughs and even then only at the cost of an enormously expensive patronage machine .
2 In those early days we were a real sub-Faces band , all Gibson guitars and plonking bass lines .
3 In those early days they were expected to go to chapel every morning ; bells seemed to announce every change in the timetable .
4 And in those early days he was careful with money .
5 In those early days he was n't very relaxed with them . ’
6 In those early days it seemed the sky was the limit !
7 In those early days I did n't even stop to think how Derrick felt , ’ she admits .
8 I do n't know whether other newly married men feel the same , but in those early days I was aware ofa calm satisfaction and fulfilment .
9 In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her .
10 In those latter areas it was left to the Serb-speaking parish priests , many of whom were illiterate , to act as upholders of Serbian culture .
11 In those dispiriting circumstances it comes as no surprise to find politicians trying to offer a means of escaping from the encircling gloom .
12 In those dark days I was that uncomfortable mixture of martyr and guilty inadequate , which made me alternate between the guilt of holding people back and the fury that they did n't offer to stop without being asked .
13 All those sublime thoughts , which tower above the clouds , and reach as high as Heaven itself , take their rise and footing here : in all that great extent wherein the mind wanders , in those remote speculations it may seem to be elevated with , it stirs not one jot beyond those ideas , which Sense or Reflection , have offered .
14 She 's here for another two weeks and if I do n't speak to her in those two weeks I 'm dropping her .
15 Coleman 's introductory lecture began late in November , and students had to stay in London in the heat of the following summer , when in those pre-formalin days they cut up carcasses at some hazard to their health .
16 And as for monks in those silent orders they must be in a state of hysteria all the time .
17 And in those fat books you 're always reading , with busty ladies on the cover .
18 ‘ Look , ’ she said , ‘ in those three weeks I got closer to him than anybody .
19 In those three days I think half the nursing staff at the hospital came up to wave .
20 In those hard times she turned to the god in the village where she lived , and that god stood by her .
21 Well , in those 3 weeks I hope you er leap ahead in your er training , and er let us know how you get on .
22 For in those few moments I had seen another world of eternity and the meeting was relegated to the category of the fleeting .
23 And in those few moments he looked so much like his father , Major John Lewis , the man who had first taken her virginity , and later betrayed her husband .
24 In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully .
25 In those few seconds I saw myself returned to Leeds like a misrouted parcel …
26 I just looked at her very quickly — I was so nervous — and in those few seconds she was gone .
27 Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade .
28 It was just eighty-eight days since he had recaptured his capital of Paris , yet in those few days he had shown the world how an emperor made armies .
29 But , of course , Dorothy knows in those particular circumstances it was not a risk — the mental parameters fixed by the first half of the lesson controlled the freedom of the second half — and any individual child who could not cope could turn it into a ‘ reporting to the boss at the manhole ’ game .
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