Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of the old [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , it will document the experience of families as they moved out of the old tenements , often slums , into their new houses in the new schemes . |
| 2 | The train will be the Ffestiniog 's Vintage Train , made up of the oldest vehicles on the railway , some dating back to the 1860's . |
| 3 | The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers . |
| 4 | Matthew and Sara and the children with them came out of the old woods into the new plantation , where rows of conifers , dark green , were interplanted with small spindly brighter green beeches . |
| 5 | A message needs to be sent loud and clear to the Church of England Synod that a complete change in thinking is vital if the new wine is not to burst out of the old wineskins and be lost . |
| 6 | Not a taking up of the old ways , but she had anticipated that for at least part of the evening they would move from professional matters to personal . |
| 7 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 8 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |