Example sentences of "my old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My old lorry driver |
| 2 | My old servant , Tabby , broke her leg and was very ill . |
| 3 | I keep her locked away , guarded by my old servant Grace Poole . |
| 4 | ‘ It was something my old boss said , ’ replied the interviewee . |
| 5 | " It 's my old boss . |
| 6 | . . And er this was one of things that my old boss , when people came into name their children , he said Now remember , these initials will go on case , perhaps , one day , and you do n't want S A P , or something like that . |
| 7 | Not , I hope , that ny of my staff or students would batter any of my old ladies but my machines have to be very solid and reliable . |
| 8 | But er , also i I 'm currently compl er getting together the records of my old company that go back to eighteen seventy-nine , and I 've been instrumental in getting one or two of the governing bodies to get their records in . |
| 9 | I had not long returned to England after a visit to my old mission of Cameroon on the West coast of Africa . |
| 10 | My old gran did n't bother with recipes and if anybody asked her for one she 'd say ‘ Oh , I do n't bother wi' them things . |
| 11 | I 'm doing a favour for the old my old gran . |
| 12 | ‘ No , dear — it 's kind of you , but when you get to my age you like to sit quietly and think about the past — and I watch my telly and listen to carols on my old wireless and then the Home Help comes and puts me to bed . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's not as attractive as my old position , ’ he said . |
| 14 | I , I wo n't take up long , much of your time , I just did n't want anyone to think that I had er given up in my old position not to be a no doubt , I believe other measures could have been taken . |
| 15 | She posed languidly before Silas , smoothing her hips provocatively as she spoke with coyness , ‘ Remember my old joddies , darling ? |
| 16 | MY gratitude to the people of Liverpool for the wonderful reception and kindness shown to myself and my old comrades . |
| 17 | Mr Jones , my old PE teacher , had advised me to join an athletics club , so I went to West London Stadium , not far up from the old White City and adjacent to Wormwood Scrubs Prison . |
| 18 | ‘ My old pipe ! ’ |
| 19 | You sound like my old Dad . |
| 20 | My old dad got really wild if you said he was working-class . |
| 21 | ‘ My old dad used to sing Handel here in the working-men 's choir , ’ Fred said . |
| 22 | My old dad , your grandad , died of that . " |
| 23 | I 'm saying years ago my old dad , he , he were eighty nine and he never had a blood test in his life . |
| 24 | He 's really let himself go since my old Dad died . |
| 25 | ‘ My old dad would have been right proud , ’ said 68-year-old Harry Ramsden junior , who opened the shop . |
| 26 | Pinched some of my old Dad 's plum brandy and soaked raisins in it and left 'em in the clearing . |
| 27 | ‘ The trouble is I ca n't put my old head on my players ' young shoulders . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I told my old lady I 'd be home , ’ McQuaid lied as he rose . |
| 29 | My old lady 's nearly ninety , and stone-deaf , and her mind wanders now and then … ’ |
| 30 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |