Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] those day [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 the thing and in those days they used to have the punched cards , you know , erm they still have this
2 And in those days we required the money and er often , very often we had to do it to strengthen our wages a bit .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 ?
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you .
9 I was born in 1910 and my parents were therefore Victorian , and in those days you were told absolutely nothing .
10 ‘ I started training modest horses and in those days you could make it pay by running them in selling races . ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Now I think they have sep little tables now but in those days they were long , just long trestle tables .
14 But in those days they were called temples , and gods lived in them .
15 Reference is often made to Britain 's honourable and proud tradition of welcoming refugees , but in those days they consisted mainly of persecuted individuals .
16 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 .
17 In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players .
18 Adam suspected that these days Rufus might be quite fastidious about wine , a wine snob even , the kind that savours bouquets and talks about nice little domestic burgundies and so forth , but in those days it was plonk he wanted .
19 Nowadays , people would n't put up with those circumstances , but in those days it was accepted as a fact of life .
20 but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing .
21 I mean today , you 've got to be an educated man to know how to even , they 've got er tractors and everything , but in those days you 'd got to set your plough furrow out so as you you could run your plough down your first one , and then as you as you ploughed your first furrow out you 'd got to plough your next one into it .
22 But in those days you did n't have many visitors at all .
23 you could go round , well it 's the same now , but in those days you could go round , past the summer theatre and down Old Road where we were staying and on to a and do a circle you see ?
24 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 .
25 Nowadays , I would probably have a complete reverse opinion and say , ‘ Well done , David ’ , but in those days I honestly did n't care .
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