Example sentences of "[adv prt] of old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implementation is for planning and installing hardware and software , producing documentation and training , a handover to new systems and winding down of old systems . |
| 2 | ‘ You park your backside in that chair along of old Mother Scutt and watch how my little nurse finishes me leg real lovely . |
| 3 | They also extend the traditions of the area — the working over of old dumps by ‘ dressers ’ has taken place since ancient times and will , no doubt , continue to do so long after the mines close down . |
| 4 | Next afternoon , then , they set off , a cheerful host , for this was the sort of venture that appealed to most , not any long campaign or set warfare but a raid , a dash into enemy territory , a showing of the flag , a swift paying off of old scores — and with the prospect of booty . |
| 5 | Although the using up of old stock may be one reason for this practice , watchcase-makers were probably also reluctant to use Britannia silver because it is a softer alloy than sterling . |
| 6 | All members are skilled craftsmen and women , who have the back up of old established Association with a reputation for having members who do goo work at a fair price . |
| 7 | She had heard that the British ate fish and chips out of old newspapers , had seen it in films about the blitz . |
| 8 | Often they built things out of the junk in the rooms and Endill became an expert at making submarines out of old bath tubs and washing machines . |
| 9 | They pull toy boats made out of old soya bean oil cans . |
| 10 | There is an interesting contrast between the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church in that the Church of Ireland tends to create new parishes out of old as the need arises while the Roman Catholic Church builds new churches where they are needed but keeps still to the already existing parish structure . |
| 11 | There was one dank , damp room inside with an earth-beaten floor , two small trestle tables and a collection of rough stools fashioned out of old barrels . |
| 12 | STEERINA : A car you used to make when you were a young fella out of old prams and burnt out helicopters . |
| 13 | On the other hand , there 's no reason why you can not make material gains , particularly if you follow the suggestions earlier to break out of old patterns and courageously go forth into new and uncertain territory . |
| 14 | Every autumn my mother would make a football out of old rags and we had some rare games , often getting literally bogged down after any rain , with the imitation football getting too heavy to kick any distance . |
| 15 | They are great improvisers too — you should see the things they are making out of old war scrap — ploughs , nails , tools and utensils of all kinds . |
| 16 | And to aid his cause Ferguson is close to boosting his already substantial cash kitty by £800,000 with the sale of Neil Webb back to Nottingham Forest poised He could be followed out of Old Trafford by other top internationals , because Ferguson is also ready to offer Wednesday players plus cash for 24-year-old Hirst . |
| 17 | WHEN Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United as the new boss he wanted me out of Old Trafford so badly he tried to make me redundant . |
| 18 | But it would not guarantee markets for products made out of old paper or plastic . |
| 19 | She used to make golliwogs out of old black stockings . |
| 20 | He dressed the same as all other Vietnamese : a drab tunic suit and sandals made out of old lorry tyres . |
| 21 | Her only pleasure in it now was the notes left all over the place by her father : cheery instructions in a classical scholar 's hand , written on the gummed labels used by the more pious English government departments to get a second use out of old envelopes . |
| 22 | There were no photographs of her in the house in King Street , and the photographs Stephen had seen he had wrested out of old Mrs Naulls . |
| 23 | He describes the toy drawer exactly , from the rubber sealing rings out of old tobacco tins , kept to make catapults ( which , with the string and the electric flex , were the principal binding agents in the mass ) , to the leaking paper bag of saltpetre ( which may have accounted for the choking smell ) . |
| 24 | I think she 'd knitted it herself out of old pieces of string she 'd saved from the children 's birthday presents . ’ |
| 25 | The headmistress and the governors of the school named were justly irate , for , they stated with concerted vehemence , no child had witnessed the recovery of the body of a murder victim from the canal : those children who had not been making stegosauruses out of old egg boxes had been learning an Ashanti war dance , and not one had been in the playground , which was the only vantage point from which body recovery would be observable . |
| 26 | And which is natural because you know , the very early motor cars were only a sort of toy for the rich as it were and er when it came to you see er grocer 's vans or , or er laundry vans made out of old pr private cars . |
| 27 | That is an extreme case but a marketing man may subtly resist the plan to move from premium pricing to commodity pricing , or he may sabotage the plan to squeeze more profit out of old products rather than spend money on new ones . |
| 28 | The village street was empty , the pump deserted , for all the domestic chores were done by midday and the women were indoors now , assembling greens and bacon for tea or hooking rugs out of old rags . |
| 29 | Lonrho 's chief executive , Mr Tiny Rowland , had once been a close business associate of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed , and the sulphurous mood at Lonrho partly reflected a falling out of old sparring partners . |
| 30 | The evidence showed that the defendant was aware of the timing of the fading out of old products , the timetable for the development of a prototype , the commencement of the production and of the sales of new products . |