Example sentences of "an old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I rode it in a in an old Burberry and I do n't how I started it , I think it was kick start . |
| 2 | Diana , wearing an old primrose suit by her favourite designer Katherine Walker , was totally indifferent to her husband as they walked across the tarmac . |
| 3 | She stepped off the plane wearing an old primrose Catherine Walker number which last saw the light of day five years ago . |
| 4 | This is an old trestle-table Ernest found in the workroom at the back , when he opened up the house again . |
| 5 | Why spend a week 's wages on a kite , a lot more on the line(s) then insult the lot by wrapping those lines around an old cocoa tin — or worse , around the handle in a bulky bundle ? |
| 6 | And conditions were still at just about the same , but it had been an old hotel , so all the rooms at the top were left just as the bedrooms would have been , so you went up and down steps , and along corridors . |
| 7 | We went into the lounge bar of an old hotel beside the subway station . |
| 8 | Still encased in the net , I was dropped on the ground as if I were an old plank . |
| 9 | Children came out to play see-saw with an old plank they had found at the roadside . |
| 10 | It was to be her home for a year , sharing it initially with Laura Greig , an old schoolchum and now one of her ladies-in-waiting , and Sophie Kimball , the daughter of the then Conservative Member of Parliament , Marcus Kimball . |
| 11 | His principles , those of an old title , are contrasted with Lord Minchampstead 's , those of a new one ; the latter are economic , not religious , and are rooted in self-interest rather than charity . |
| 12 | It was — is , I should say — an old concern , going back to the days of coastal ketches and collier brigs , and was founded by the great-grandfather of the present chairman to bring coal from the Tyne to London . |
| 13 | She reached for an old brass key . |
| 14 | The fire probably started in a rubbish dump , above an old strip mine a few miles east of the town , in May 1962 . |
| 15 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 16 | It was as cold as an old grave . |
| 17 | They said it was an old grave , nobody knows who 's it is . |
| 18 | In his " Tales of the West Highlands , he mentions the discovery of combs and brooches of a peculiar form … similar brooches are commonly found in Denmark … and I own a pair found in an old grave in Islay , together with an amber bead . |
| 19 | An old Bakelite telephone responds with a crackling dial tone . |
| 20 | In fact the combination of an old stimulus in a new environment produced more rapid learning than any other arrangement . |
| 21 | It showed an old cottage , with woods behind and a sandy beach in front . |
| 22 | The cart stopped beside an old cottage near the edge of the mainland . |
| 23 | An old cottage ! |
| 24 | The Noisette roses are an old cottage garden favourite of yesteryear , consisting of repeat and perpetual flowering climbers , invariably of considerable beauty . |
| 25 | The house is an old cottage . |
| 26 | By chance he said there was an old cottage up here . |
| 27 | It comes from an old cottage garden just round where I . |
| 28 | The chickens for which Tess was responsible lived in an old cottage on Mrs d'Urberville 's land . |
| 29 | The group came to a halt outside an old cottage on the front . |
| 30 | an old cottage on the top . |