Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] old days " in BNC.

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1 The apostles , the folk who had known Jesus in the old days in Galilee , Stephen , Paul ; all are ‘ witnesses of these things ; and so is the Holy Spirit whom God had given to those who obey him ’ ( Acts 5:32 ) .
2 ’ The provision of the men who were eventually to take over responsibility for the management of an enterprise was regarded as a matter of making sure that enough young men entered business at the foot of the ladder , ’ wrote Falk of the old days .
3 ‘ Radio , cyphers , handling explosives , the sort of thing we got at Wanborough in the old days . ’
4 It 's got a somewhat scrappily-engraved ‘ SRV ’ scratchplate , a ‘ signed ’ headstock , a left-handed trem , Fender 's own Texas Special pickups and , for some inexplicable reason , gold hardware throughout — not really to my taste , and Fender would never have put custom gold bits on a standard sunburst Strat in the old days .
5 The same system was used in Shetland in the old days ( they were called ‘ skeos ’ ) and in the Faroes a modernised version is still in everyday use .
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