Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] those day " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hard to return for seven days and in those days churn up the past and curdle precious memories . |
| 32 | Our lodging was not free , as it was for our service colleagues ; we paid one guinea a week , and five shillings for transport ( which we could scarcely avoid ) , and a fixed regular sum for meals necessarily taken in the canteen at B.P. Nor did we receive travel warrants for our three-monthly seven-day leaves ; and in those days when civilian travel was frowned upon we had no uniform to prove that our journey was really necessary . |
| 33 | And in those days if you were old and if you were poor , … that was the end of the road . |
| 34 | The lawn climbs a slope several yards in front of the summerhouse , and in those days , as today , four flagstones embedded into the grass served as steps by which to negotiate this climb . |
| 35 | The car was No. 25 , one of the small Milnes cars and in those days a ‘ Lorry ’ was a flat truck drawn by horses . |
| 36 | India in 1793 was largely a Hindu country and in those days dominated by the ceremonies and superstitions of that religion , rigidly divided by a caste system into which a person was born and could not escape . |
| 37 | I was born in 1910 and my parents were therefore Victorian , and in those days you were told absolutely nothing . |
| 38 | It still overlooks a bridge and in those days there was also a causeway to take the traveller over the marshy ground beyond . |
| 39 | Well they always started the lads right at the pit bottom and in those days ev everybody was crackers down there in those days , they were all mad , tearing about . |
| 40 | Yes , oh aye I Yes , we You had to measure , and in those days , the councils were grouped in what they called Assessment Committee Areas , and each were wor making sure the other areas were using the same sort of basis . |
| 41 | He was what we called a School Board man as well he was , that was his official capacity , and in those days if you were n't at school they used to erm send a man round to see where you were , you know and why were n't you at school ? |
| 42 | And in those days erm I , the Co-op had got a building society as well you see , so it all tied up and I think mother , you know , I , I think it was a very good shop , I mean it was er so . |
| 43 | It did n't bother me , I knew I was engaged to be married , and in those days as soon as you were going to be married you left your job … that is the only thing we girls had to look forward to , getting married and going on our own , getting our bottom drawer together and things like that … |
| 44 | And in those days we required the money and er often , very often we had to do it to strengthen our wages a bit . |
| 45 | It , we never sort of slackened off at all and in those days there was so much brass to be cleaned and scrubbing to be done and cleaning . |
| 46 | And in those days most people did have their children at home , did n't they ? |
| 47 | ‘ I started training modest horses and in those days you could make it pay by running them in selling races . ’ |
| 48 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 49 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 50 | the thing and in those days they used to have the punched cards , you know , erm they still have this |
| 51 | Er you know I I I af I mean after I did n't think anything of it , and in those days I was too young of course to think of th things like that . |
| 52 | He was a superb horseman and in those days we had many more horses here , bloodstock that was famous as even now these horses are . |
| 53 | He 'd been married , of course , and in those days perhaps it had been frowned upon for a married man to be friendly with a young girl , but that 's all it had been — friendship . |
| 54 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 55 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 56 | In those days the government assessed local authority needs according to a very in the grant related expenditure assessment , G R E A , greas and this is much more complex and sensitive measure of how much it costs to run a city and in those days what the government thought we should be spending and what we thought we should be spending seemed in fact to be very close indeed . |
| 57 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 58 | The feasts of the Madonna fell on 15 August and 8 September , and on those days hundreds if not thousands of pilgrims descended on Fontanellato from all over the province and even further afield . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Nowadays , I would probably have a complete reverse opinion and say , ‘ Well done , David ’ , but in those days I honestly did n't care . |