Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] in those [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was an incurable romantic and yearned for a romantic friendship before it would be too late , for I believed in those days that romantic friendship was possible only in youth . |
| 2 | The only contract for endorsing a product I obtained in those days was for Churchman 's cigarettes . ’ |
| 3 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 4 | I was chased mercilessly about the streets by my campaign assistant , Simon Heffer , who is now the chief leader-writer of the Daily Telegraph but whom I knew in those days as a fellow ( but younger ) old boy from Chelmsford . |
| 5 | ‘ What would I give now to have a joint of beef like I had in those days ! ’ |
| 6 | It the method you used in those days did tha did they change as the years went on or , or |
| 7 | erm it may be that erm because of my generation , but you do n't get the same sort of personalities nowadays as you did in those days , erm Mr for instance he was , he was a most benign sort of erm fellow of what one would describe as a real gentleman mm , mind you he used to have his paddies at times but |
| 8 | You did in those days . |
| 9 | ‘ But you dealt in those things yourself , ’ she protested . |
| 10 | ‘ Come here while I teach you how we fought in those days . ’ |
| 11 | You see , this , where we young we 've had all the youth organisations which most of us belong to , that 's all we had in those days . |
| 12 | But that was the doctoring that we had in those days . |
| 13 | At the moment it was the traditional tale of going up to Jackson 's at 10 in the morning after an all-night session at Dobell 's — wine we drank in those days , Poppet , wine that was wine not this filthy MUCK — and demanding double portions of oysters all round and when it came to pay no one had a penny , so Dobell , who even then still had the charm of a boy of twenty , and a slim waist to go with it , said he would bring in one of the engravings from his collection , and Gaston , who always recognised a gentleman — not like the CLODS who run hostelries nowadays — with tears in his eyes said it was an honour , an honour to serve Mr Dobell and his friends . |
| 14 | They erm and , and some of the characters they in days gone by they used to dress up in costume if they were doing well in the Cup and have er a pole with a model of the F A Cup on Walsall 's colours and they used to dress up in red and white suits claret and blue suits when they played in those colours yeah . |
| 15 | Instead of giving your mum chocolates ( or cake as they did in those days ) , you could treat her to a special melon basket , which can be prepared the day before . |
| 16 | Father had to poultice her , which is what they did in those days . |
| 17 | Funny , they did in those days did n't they ? |
| 18 | It just was n't true what they said in those commercials . |
| 19 | Whether he would have done the right thing by her — as they said in those days — is fruitless speculation : he was never told of the need . |
| 20 | more information I mean this is , I mean this is part of what I was talk mythology I mean we 're talking about the index survey so when I raised the example of Churchill and the Churchill ex example is , was a good one because I mean he was an intellectual in his way , you know I mean he was a big bright cookie and but his was in terms of word count because he had a use of words for the way he used his words was how ordinary people would understand him I mean if you go back to you know we will fight them on the beaches and everything else I mean you think of the number of syllables he used in those words etcetera , etcetera I mean that 's sort of what I 'm getting to I mean he had his sharp succinct approach you know |
| 21 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |
| 22 | I , I think that 's how you can interpret it , I , I do n't think he was I do n't think he thought in those terms . |
| 23 | It was then that I conceived the idea of getting a few fans that he had in those days to walk around the television company with placards saying Lets Be Fair To The Long Hairs , which did get press publicity , and in the end , the producer relented and he did his first TV show . ’ |
| 24 | He had in those days of innocence seen the Edition as a finite task that would lead on to other things . |
| 25 | Taliesin had not thought it would be possible for the darkness surrounding the House to deepen , but it deepened in those minutes after Fael-Inis made his pronouncement . |