Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] old [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we are on this subject , it may be remarked that even social workers sometimes give credence to one or another of the old wives ' tales which surround pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 2 | It was up two stairs in the Crockers ' house , and level with many of the old women 's beds in the Blue Coat School almshouses . |
| 3 | Bernard had been told this was a confusing mixture reminiscent of the old drapers ' shops — and would never work as the products would attract different customers . |
| 4 | Mr. J. C. Moult now became Vice-Chairman , and Mr. W.A. Kershaw was elected as one of the Old Stopfordians ' nominees on the Governing body . |
| 5 | As I walked past my contemporary ‘ transgressors ’ , cloaked in the anonymity of the backpack , I felt strangely more at one with the old lags ' displaced condition than with the multi-hued raincoated and umbrella-ed Glaswegian families queuing to go aboard the Waverley paddle steamer for their day ‘ doon the watter ’ to Rothesay . |
| 6 | This was when most of the older breeds ' herdbooks and breed societies were established and in 1874 the Nederlands Rundvee Stamboek ( NRS ) national herdbook was formed , operating on a provincial basis and registering and describing all breeds and types without differentiating between them . |