Example sentences of "was [prep] those [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sites where some time dependence of the blockages was apparent was for those derivatives with a pendant intercalator ( 2 , 3 , 5 and 6 ; Figures 2 and 3 ) . |
| 2 | It was during those months of waiting that she felt in her heart that her husband was once again seeing Camilla . |
| 3 | Further north , in Yorkshire , Pocklington was amongst those scores of ancient market towns which continued to fulfil their traditional roles during the Victorian era . |
| 4 | We may wonder what was behind those absences . |
| 5 | In front of everyone else he was the same as always and it was like those nights were a bad dream . |
| 6 | Days when my mind was like those days , grey and comfortless for no particular reason . |
| 7 | A prisoner had been taken who reported a possibility that the Emperor was with those forces , but the prisoner had not been certain of that fact . |
| 8 | Jesus , what was in those capsules ? |
| 9 | It was in those rabbit-runs through the gorse that some of the local boys used to set snares . |
| 10 | A real heavy duty place it was in those days |
| 11 | It was in those days , then , prompted by my natural admiration for the lady , that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment . |
| 12 | Sooner , rather than later , and generally after a few stiff drams , Joicey would break into the Gaelic , roaring and shouting at the top of his voice : ‘ Man to man it was in those days . |
| 13 | It was in those days , when Margaret was still alive , that I gave my former colleague Peter Duval-Smith — whose private life and whose work as an academic journalist always seemed to be equally chaotic — the introduction to Braemar Mansions that he so much wanted . |
| 14 | Along the Cumberland coast an industrial fringe was already well established , based on deposits of coal and iron ore : Whitehaven was in those days an important port . |
| 15 | Because it was in those days simply the most difficult , challenging and interesting circuit around . |
| 16 | You ca n't imagine how bold that was in those days . |
| 17 | And erm that was the spirit that was in those days you see erm , they said I 've got nothing to do . |
| 18 | But erm as I say , they did er , the people did but you never got nothing off the government for it and er , I 've always said it , he must have been a much better man than I thought he was because er , er , to go as I say from what it was in those days to start his own business and that . |
| 19 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 20 | Which the present administration of central government are doing their best to , under the same hammer as it was in those days , so it 's just , this is just a repeat performance of the those days and the government today . |
| 21 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 22 | but er they were a bit of a nuisance because more than once , I must admit I erm , I collided with them which rather made me aware of their presence but anyway erm , then just beyond I am sorry , on the erm right hand side , a little way down this corridor , were the stairs up to the next floor which was in those days Public Health |
| 23 | It had been most enjoyable with a tremendous amount of flying : I had been in every part of the Command — Persia as it was in those days , down the Gulf and all the way round the Gulf to Bahrain , Salalah , I took part in the search for the Imperial Airways Argosy airliner City of Glasgow that landed on the beach and was literally lost for a couple of days before one of the Shaihah crews found it away down beyond Sulwah Wells . |
| 24 | You printed the story of Leslie Benns and his life in what was in those days called gentlemen 's service . |
| 25 | Cos there 's more people now than there was in those days . |
| 26 | I wish I was in those bars tonight . ’ |
| 27 | What was in those tubes of toothpaste , Stephen ? ’ |
| 28 | In the middle ages , all men over the age of 18 were required on Sunday , after attending church , to participate in archery practice ; it was from those roots that the Territorial Army grew . |
| 29 | My first husband was from those parts . |
| 30 | It was from those situations that he was likely to salvage something and draw Leonard into a fight . |