Example sentences of "my old man " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean we 've got , four , four , four cars in our house , the gran lives in the granny annexe inside , god knows how the fucking hell she got a parking space , somehow she did , mum 's got her 's in there , my old mans parked his opposite , we 've got a big double drive as well , my old man parks his on the right and I park mine on the fucking left , its like a parking lot out there in the mornings , and if when he says |
| 2 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 3 | And I do n't suppose my old man 'll be home for months . |
| 4 | She said , ‘ I think maybe my old man had a stab at it . ’ |
| 5 | She said , ‘ We do n't ever talk about my old man . |
| 6 | My old man . ’ |
| 7 | Is my old man one of them ? ’ |
| 8 | Jilly 's Jazz Band trod the riverside path playing ‘ My Old Man 's a Dustman ’ and pursued by barking dogs . |
| 9 | Those people have lived here for about two years and they 'll still say ‘ I 've got to go home because my old man wants his dinner . ’ |
| 10 | And be my Old Man , my mucker , |
| 11 | ‘ Well , you know my old man keeps a fifteen gallon cask of scrump in the shed ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well I promised my old man I would take home a feed for him tonight . |
| 13 | ‘ My old man always reckoned I was a blockhead , ’ he explained , and brayed with laughter at his own joke . |
| 14 | ‘ In the first place , ’ said my old man , ‘ I do n't know you … in the second place , I do n't vant to know you … ’ |
| 15 | I had to come along with my old man . |
| 16 | I shall be staying here and I shall fight back just like my old man did at Dunkirk . ’ |
| 17 | The piano struck up My Old Man Said Follow The Van . |
| 18 | Her voice , clear and pure , soared up to the roof of the theatre , and when it picked up the words of the chorus of ‘ My old man said follow the van … ’ , no one in that vast hall joined in , they just listened . |
| 19 | My old man said ‘ follow the van , |
| 20 | He 's a decent old boy , is my old man . |
| 21 | He took quite a shine to you , did my old man . |
| 22 | Here he is captured at his influential peak — 1958 –'63; — on his TV series knocking out such favourites as ‘ My Old Man 's A Dustman ’ , ‘ Tom Dooley ’ and the recently Dylanised ‘ Froggie Went-A-Courtin' ’ . |
| 23 | The only sport my old man was interested in was beating up the rest of the family . |
| 24 | As far as I 'm concerned , my old man died when I was 12 [ his age when his father left home ] . |
| 25 | My old man works at Dunlop and he wants to make sure we [ he and his brothers and sisters ] do better than that . |
| 26 | My old man had this thing about all of us [ a family of ten ] growing up in this society and not getting into a black thing . |
| 27 | My old man said be a Swansea fan but I said bog-off , cobblers you 're a fart ! |
| 28 | I was walking along with my girl and I see my old man and I was scared , you know , smoking , but at the same time I did n't want to throw it away because my girl was there , you know , and she 'd see it , and I just kept on walking and my old man stopped and said to me , ‘ Give me a light ’ , and I give him a light , and he said , ‘ I 'm away to the shops ’ , and I was , you know , thinking , I can get away with this . |
| 29 | I was walking along with my girl and I see my old man and I was scared , you know , smoking , but at the same time I did n't want to throw it away because my girl was there , you know , and she 'd see it , and I just kept on walking and my old man stopped and said to me , ‘ Give me a light ’ , and I give him a light , and he said , ‘ I 'm away to the shops ’ , and I was , you know , thinking , I can get away with this . |
| 30 | See , my old man , he was going off his nut , right . |