Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] an older " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had moved in with an older man , TV director Roger Brackett . |
| 2 | I had more luck with partners this time — I was paired off with an older girl who I got along with fine , and we readied ourselves to go out . |
| 3 | Yet , like so many others brought up through an older tradition , I was only indirectly aware of their nature , or even of their existence . |
| 4 | If , however , the lessor 's title is itself only registered as good leasehold ( if , for example , the lessor is granting an underlease out of an older leasehold title ) you may not be able to obtain a better title than good leasehold for the underlease ; a position that a mortgagee will normally accept if there 's no alternative . |
| 5 | They hark back to an older , more religious notion , where it 's not a question of wholeness of being , but of holes . |
| 6 | Horns go back to an older world where surrenders were not accepted , to the dead defiant Roland rather than the brave , polite , compromise-creating Sir Gawain , whose dinner is served to ‘ nwe nakryn noyse ’ — the sound of chivalric kettledrums . |
| 7 | The row blew over as it did for Kurt Weinburg , who was taken out by an older friend for a night on the town . |
| 8 | By contrast , in the Devon village of Broadclyst , it is the middle-class estate of four-bedroomed detached dwellings that has been grafted on to an older core of smaller , less attractive houses . |