Example sentences of "his old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that was rejected he argued in favour of his old plan of travelling on foot by the secret paths ; there were so many footpaths they could not all be watched and there was a chance that if they came upon outlaws there would be no more than one or two . |
| 2 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 3 | She had his fishing rod still , his old saddle . |
| 4 | after a brief honeymoon with Unionists in 1917–18 , he regained his old standing by 1920 . |
| 5 | It ‘ is n't a patch ’ on his old Aircoupe , he feels ! |
| 6 | Anyway , it was good that Taff was back to his old self . |
| 7 | He might have died — there was so little of his old self left . |
| 8 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 9 | His old self would have scorned such sentimentality . |
| 10 | Only Lewis , unshakeable symbol of dependability , stays his old self . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it was clear that he was still not fully back to his old self because the tough links courses took their toll as the round wore on . |
| 12 | Owner Richard Burridge ( above ) reports his tough grey almost back to his old self and the horse may be well enough to be turned out in a paddock today . |
| 13 | ‘ Arazi has been working like his old self and I hope he can go back to America for the Breeders Cup and win like he did last year . ’ |
| 14 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 15 | George was more his old self now . |
| 16 | He was his old self again . |
| 17 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |
| 18 | Peter seemed almost his old self again . |
| 19 | He was sharp , alert and in a sense no different from his old self , but he was not — somehow — Li Shai Tung . |
| 20 | An expedition to the bar of the Glue pot convinced him that , apart from a hacking cough and a tendency to tire easily , he was very much his old self . |
| 21 | Mitch came back and Maggie did not see how Ana greeted him , but it was plain that he was restored to his old self , cheerful and easygoing . |
| 22 | But bravely Close hauled himself up at the count of nine and by the end of the round he was back to his old self . |
| 23 | Jake sat back in his chair , his fingers toying with the glass paperweight , yet looking totally composed again , back to his old self . |
| 24 | Perhaps they would accept his old currency . |
| 25 | Buchan , in the heat of the moment , threatened to leave the club after such a humiliation so near his old Sunderland home . |
| 26 | Angus disappeared for a while , but returned to reclaim all his old honours and become one of a new group of guardians . |
| 27 | Yrtle and Finreir , two of his old comrades from the Tower of Hoeth agreed to go with him . |
| 28 | In the early 1980s , Dan tried to trace his old crew and received this letter from the Veterans Administration , informing him ‘ We regret to advise you that our records reflect the deaths of three of your crew : — Edward C Chambers , July 31 , 1973 ; William F Mackowiak , November 10 , 1975 ; Charles J Wilson , January 2 , 1978 . |
| 29 | NOW that Nicholas Soames has access to a ministerial Montego , what will happen to Sutton , his old chauffeur ? |
| 30 | Before leaving England he had been hankering after his American roots , not only in those sections of Ash-Wednesday which recall the New England coast , but also in his prose , invoking , for instance , his old master Josiah Royce , who was now mostly forgotten , ‘ but a great philosopher in his day ’ . |