Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] old [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By comparison with the ‘ insider ’ methods of the Old People 's Welfare Committees , it was also profoundly political , resembling , as later commentators put it , ‘ the abrasive approach of 1960s pressure groups such as Shelter rather than the more staid ‘ non political ’ approach' of the voluntary organizations . |
| 2 | The first representative of the College was the Beyer Professor of Mathematics there , Horace Lamb , an Old Boy and first President of the Old Boys ' Association . |
| 3 | Scholars ' president looks to famous ancestor The Rev. John Douglas will seek his inspiration from a famous ancestor when he returns to the Friends ' School at Great Ayton as president of the Old Scholars ' Association . |
| 4 | Being president of the Old Scholars ' Association was , he said , one of the great honours of his life , following , as it did , the equivalent presidency of another Quaker School , Polam Hall , Darlington , by his sister , Mrs Trixie Lyburn , in 1986/7 . |
| 5 | At the mention of the old man 's name , Beth 's hackles rose . |
| 6 | With his own hand , the king characteristically gave the fragments of the old seal 's silver matrix to one of his clerks for donation to some poor religious house . |
| 7 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |
| 8 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |
| 9 | Past a house that was larger , set back from the road , beyond a lawn on which the rain made ponds , and he saw the flash of an old woman 's face at a window and then the falling of a lace curtain . |
| 10 | With mixed feelings ( on my part , anyway ) , we watched the lights of Stornoway recede astern from the deck of the old MacBrayne 's ferry Lock Seaforth . |
| 11 | Roland could think of no intelligent comments about rabbits , but Maud replied with statistics about Fenland warrens and a description of an old warrener 's tower on the Norfolk Baileys ' estate . |
| 12 | Sat 25 11.00am NFT1 Waller 's Last Walk Christian Wagner 's elegiac treatment of an eldery railway inspector 's life ; 10.45am NFT2 In Fading Light Gripping docu-drama on the dying North Shields fishing industry ; 11.00am Curzon West End Romuald and Juliette Coline Serreau 's comedy about an affair between an exec and his black cleaner ; 11.00am Screen on Green Island Paul Cox 's elegant three-hander ; 2.15 NFT1 Guardian/AIP Seminar ; 1.15 NFT2 Martha Jellneck Kai Wessell 's story of an old woman 's relationship with her meals-on-wheels deliverer ; 3.15 NFT2 I Am Living Portrait of contemporary Indian women ; 4.30 NFT1 The Thief of Bagdad Restored version of Korda 's sumptuous Arabian Knights fantasy ; 5.45 NFT2 I Went to The Dance Documentary by Les Blank on the Cajun music of Louisiana ; 7.30 LFMC Programme 7 : Interior Monologues ; 9.00 NFT1 The Kill-Off Maggie Greenwald 's look at a sleazy East Coast seaside resort ; 8.30 NFT2 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Beeban Kidron 's interpretation of Jeanette Winterson 's autobiographical first novel , with Geraldine McEwan ; 8.45 MOMI Smoking Mirror Funereal British comedy , with Beatie Edney ; 11.15 Rio Chicken and Duck Talk See above . |
| 13 | Pausing just long enough to sweep the old man 's triumphant face with an antagonistic look , Beth turned from them both and went , head high , out of the room and into the hallway , where the late March sunshine found its way through the tall arched windows , and where the air seemed relatively fresh compared to the musty damp smell of the old man 's den . |
| 14 | Patrick obediently closed his eyes , feeling the sun warm and orange on his eyelids , hearing the click of the old woman 's scissors , feeling cold strands of hair drift occasionally across his face . |
| 15 | The vigour and profundity of the Old Testament 's own challenge is at once realized when we recall how far the ruins of Jericho are from Eden , or from that remarkable declaration of faith in Genesis 1 , and how completely the smoke of its destruction hides the last of the promises given to Abraham in Genesis 12 . |
| 16 | Observed in uncompromising midsummer light , Clytemnestra looked like something that , having lain neglected at the bottom of an old woman 's knitting basket , has finally been brought out to be mended . |
| 17 | This proved to be an unsatisfactory arrangement , and with the help of the Old Boys ' Association a four-acre field in Adswood was purchased . |
| 18 | Reading of the treatment by Durham County Council of the old people 's homes that are being closed , I say it is an absolute disgrace and this by the people who keep on about caring councils . |
| 19 | But Ulisse , despite the great , deeply expressive monologues of Penelope and Ulysses in Act I , the melodic charm of the old herdsman 's song , ‘ Come lieto ’ , which ends the Act , and many fine things in the remainder of the opera , is uneven enough to justify the suspicion that another hand , perhaps Manelli 's , had a share in it . |
| 20 | She would be more on her guard in future , however , now that she knew the unpredictable nature of the old lady 's malevolence . |
| 21 | From the 1740s North Cave was the meeting place for Quakers in the area , and Quaker Cottage on Church Street was built in 1892 on the site of the old Friends ' meeting house ; the cottage garden once was their burial ground . |
| 22 | Born in Silvertown , within sound of the old boat-builders ' yards , he disliked silence . |
| 23 | The eagle was clinging with his talons to the wall of the old female 's cage and seemed to be looking into it as if to work out where she had gone . |
| 24 | All of a sudden it seemed to be the wrong time and the wrong way to go about it , what with it being the day of the old man 's funeral and everything … |
| 25 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 26 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 27 | Across the gloomy interior , Tallis could see Scathach crouched by the straw mattress , his arm around the back of the old man 's head . |
| 28 | We all see with one pair of eyes , Raskolnikov 's , when the visual field narrows upon the back of an old woman 's head , her hair ‘ thick with grease , twisted into a rat's-tail plait and gathered up under what was left of a broken horn comb which stuck out at the nape of her neck ’ . |
| 29 | Southgate crouched by my master and felt the nape of the old woman 's neck , trying to ignore those staring , popping eyes . |
| 30 | The end result of Henry 's policy was that ruined castles were to be seen throughout his dominions , visible reminders of the Old King 's power and the penalties meted out to rebellious lords . |