Example sentences of "in [adj] days they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In old days they put mountain ash berries and a cast horseshoe over the lintel to frighten away the Fairy Folk . |
| 2 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
| 3 | In three days they covered 400 miles . |
| 4 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 5 | Nowadays the rich snort coke ; in those days they got drunk and had orgies . ’ |
| 6 | Yes the er the doctors were very very keen in those days they 'd repo , I remember Doctor telling me about a case on . |
| 7 | In those days they had very few clothes . |
| 8 | I do n't sort of , I mean in those days they had wh apprenticeships and , and that sort of thing . |
| 9 | In those days they lived next door but now they 've only got their offices there . |
| 10 | I do n't think in those days they wanted women with minds of their own , did they ? |
| 11 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 12 | Cos in those days they did n't . |
| 13 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 14 | Well , you were talking flying the horses around putting them in horses boxes well in those days they did n't have many vehicles did they ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well they can do now , in those days they did n't . |
| 17 | Reference is often made to Britain 's honourable and proud tradition of welcoming refugees , but in those days they consisted mainly of persecuted individuals . |
| 18 | In nine days they flew twenty-one relief flights … from a base in Zagreb … to the devastated Saravejo . |
| 19 | In four days they moved nine kilometres . |
| 20 | In two days they climbed the two remaining plumb lines , the magnificent Centurion and The Shield . |
| 21 | In earlier days they had actually earned their living by war and become rich from the plunder they could collect on their annual expeditions . |