Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] those day [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . ) |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | The car was No. 25 , one of the small Milnes cars and in those days a ‘ Lorry ’ was a flat truck drawn by horses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The symphonies are full of difficulties and in those days the orchestras had not always the resources we have today . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | He was in any case visibly touched that I should have gone to the lengths of copying the essay ; but in those days no other method of putting him in possession of it was available . |
| 9 | I should have taken the set back and demanded that the shop or manufacturer replace it , but in those days the attitude was that it was a privilege to buy something , and it was just your bad luck if it turned out to be faulty . |
| 10 | 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 . |