Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he continued , suddenly grinning at the tall old man as they walked between the levels of stoves and cookers and fires , Scullions ran about the place , carrying brooms and buckets and baskets full of hidden ingredients . |
| 2 | Well they had to get their own machines out an there 's one old boy had a stitcher , a be he looked ninety , he probably was n't , and er he was chu , it was just after lunch and he was chewing apple and old Jo , I was working with so you know , Jim someone 's I said look at the silly old B , I said ! |
| 3 | Glancing at the big old wall-clock , she saw that it was still only eight-thirty . |
| 4 | That was when Ruth got to know her better , and to like her better ; and a few months later , Cousin Saul had married Gloria , taking her to live at the ramshackle old warehouse on Cyclops Wharf . |
| 5 | She looked at the strong old face , the arched bone of the nose , the imperious , high forehead and thought : I bet she 's been a tartar in her day . |
| 6 | The visitor sipped his coffee and looked at the impish old man with his goatee beard . |
| 7 | They almost all wanted to stay at the fabulous old Hotel Mamounia , a place of wonderful gardens and lakes that had achieved fame when Winston Churchill came to paint there in the fifties . |
| 8 | Dismissing him with difficulty from her mind , she went to her bedroom , smiling at the familiar old room , the shutters flung wide , overlooking the dusty terrace below , the bright pink bougainvillaea trailing like a Schiaparelli ballgown from the bleached balustrade walls below , down the rugged red cliffs , down to that turqouise , glittering sea . |