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

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1 You can appreciate now that he was unconscious , but in those minutes it looked more terminal .
2 that , that there are others equally we say that we women to determine what happens to their own bodies and their destiny is for them , I respect that view too but in those circumstances you do n't resolve problems by the majority whatever it happens to be determining what the minority will do .
3 Now I think they have sep little tables now but in those days they were long , just long trestle tables .
4 But in those days they were called temples , and gods lived in them .
5 Reference is often made to Britain 's honourable and proud tradition of welcoming refugees , but in those days they consisted mainly of persecuted individuals .
6 I saw that the wing commander engineering , who also was a pilot ( but in those days they did an engineering course as we had no Engineering Officers , at least I do not remember any ) opened his window in the office and climbed out .
7 In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players .
8 Adam suspected that these days Rufus might be quite fastidious about wine , a wine snob even , the kind that savours bouquets and talks about nice little domestic burgundies and so forth , but in those days it was plonk he wanted .
9 Nowadays , people would n't put up with those circumstances , but in those days it was accepted as a fact of life .
10 but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing .
11 I mean today , you 've got to be an educated man to know how to even , they 've got er tractors and everything , but in those days you 'd got to set your plough furrow out so as you you could run your plough down your first one , and then as you as you ploughed your first furrow out you 'd got to plough your next one into it .
12 But in those days you did n't have many visitors at all .
13 you could go round , well it 's the same now , but in those days you could go round , past the summer theatre and down Old Road where we were staying and on to a and do a circle you see ?
14 Today rucsacs can be delightful to carry , a world apart from my heap of the 1960s , but in those days I really did not like backpacking .
15 Nowadays , I would probably have a complete reverse opinion and say , ‘ Well done , David ’ , but in those days I honestly did n't care .
16 Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois .
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