Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] those day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the shortage of paper and the requisitioning of most commercial photographic glass negatives for the war effort , he was never happier , as he recounts in his autobiography , Books and Myself ( 1944 ) , than during those days in World War I when he worked late into the night to the background of a pavement barrel-organ in the Farringdon Road , alert to imminent air attacks on the city . |
| 2 | I might well have got myself burned upon a stake , although in those days that was n't all that difficult . |
| 3 | ‘ Royal Glyn-Neath ’ , we call it , although in those days it was only a little nine-hole course . |
| 4 | So it was that although in those days I was often homesick , missing Harry , missing Daisy , it was never unbearable . |
| 5 | Ezra was a cobbler who also acted as a local estate agent , although in those days he would n't have recognised the term . |
| 6 | The need for maritime work remained , although it was clear that the anti-submarine role was no longer a possibility ( although in those days , Soviet submarines and surface shipping were still something to be feared as they passed the Cape in both directions ) . |
| 7 | ( It is worth remembering that in those days the Grand National fences did not incorporate a sloping apron of gorse on the take-off side to help the horses jump accurately : the take-off side was sheer , and consequently more difficult to gauge correctly . ) |
| 8 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 9 | The difference being , of course , that in those days the phenomenon of semi-literacy did not exist and readers of Disraeli 's or Thackeray 's novels would neither mistake them for the real world , nor read them to the exclusion of all real political texts . |
| 10 | One point to remember , incidentally , is that in those days all recordings were played at 78 rpm , so each side ran only a few minutes . |
| 11 | She had heard tales of the sunshine , the flowers and bright colours of the upper world , but her father warned her of the perils that haunted the surface , in particular the giants that in those days walked the wilds of Dartmoor . |
| 12 | As a header of the ball he was phenomenal and it is amazing how many of his goals came from his head , while he possessed an extremely powerful shot — and remember that in those days the leather ball collected any moisture on the pitch and could finish up weighing several pounds ! |
| 13 | For Jackie , it also brought a number of painful reminders that in those days , perhaps only a trifle more than now , driver mortality was a fact of life . |
| 14 | Bill remembers that in those days lecturers learned the job slowly . |
| 15 | Er nowadays so many things are just accepted that in those days they would n't be . |
| 16 | The present generation should be informed that in those days we tended to talk about ‘ civilization ’ rather than ‘ culture ’ . |
| 17 | I remind the Opposition that in those days , when British Airways was still in state ownership , it made a loss of £140 million before tax . |
| 18 | Who 's to say that in those days there was nt as much hype/stereotyping and bullshit as there is today ? ? |
| 19 | think that in those days anybody would have considered taking a child out like that , you know ! |
| 20 | Cos in those days they did n't . |
| 21 | Cos in those days , some of the homes just pushed them into domestic service and that kind of thing . |
| 22 | Yes cos in those days you see if you remember they were all erm amateurs that played . |
| 23 | They had four children and not much income and in those days believed like the rest of the middle class that they could only find a good education for their boy at an independent fee-paying school . |
| 24 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
| 25 | It stands six miles outside Oxford , in lovely and in those days remote country , with one bus a day . |
| 26 | One hopes not ; the best series between the two was that of 1963 , and in those days cricket teams had a balanced attack . |
| 27 | The earliest discoveries in mathematics were made by the great physicists and astronomers in the course of their work , and in those days great scientists had to be great mathematicians . |
| 28 | Men have always been hung up on breasts , especially American men , and in those days it was the only part of the body which could be shown . |
| 29 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
| 30 | The symphonies are full of difficulties and in those days the orchestras had not always the resources we have today . |