Example sentences of "in the [adj] days they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the elder days they were relatively empty lands , occupied by those who sought to escape the more civilised realms and return to nature . |
| 2 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |
| 3 | No one had ever seen a bride or groom walk to their wedding ; even the very poor found a car for that day and in the old days they had gone by trap or sidecar . |
| 4 | In the old days they would be feeding the poor at the castle gate . |
| 5 | In the old days they carried twenty-four horses in a car , but there was no centre aisle , eh ? |
| 6 | In the old days they all played cards . |
| 7 | And of course in the old days they just were n't available because they were n't on the market . |
| 8 | Our ships may be small , Mr. Mottram , but in the old days they were liners — that is , they made regular , scheduled runs from various ports on the Continent to the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | ‘ In the old days they 'd have thumped enough into him to get him through his exam . |
| 10 | Ah ha , but in the old days they used to have |
| 11 | In the old days they used to have little houses close together called begins with T |
| 12 | there , I mean in the older days they used to have a li little railway and they used t used more or less take all the sewage on to his land and there used to be couple little trucks where you tip over and they 'd be one down and one up , on and he , old he used to , used to be his , put on his land . |
| 13 | Now we 've got burners , in the Montgolfier days they lit a bonfire underneath it , so we 've got a lot more control over it now . |
| 14 | Years ago they had all these narrow looms , about this size , and this is where women worked , they called it the narrow section , and maybe mostly for hotels or you know , in the olden days they had stair , your mother 'll probably , stair runners or holes and the , the carpet just went like that and there 'd be a piece of lino up the side , |