Example sentences of "old [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has already been hinted at by oor worthy comrade up the back before he passed oot , we are but six months old as a body … ’ |
| 2 | Of course , it is not necessary to press the actual flowers from the birthday celebration itself , as one could just make a picture for the eighteen-year old as a present . |
| 3 | Table 5.2 The very old as a percentage of the elderly in the UK ( 1901–2001 ) |
| 4 | His mother describes the 3 year old as a quiet , shy little boy , who loves babies . |
| 5 | His mother describes the 3 year old as a quiet , shy little boy , who loves babies . |
| 6 | The weapon was old as the world and deadly as poison , a shard of the fatal weapon forged by Vaul himself for the death god Khaela-Mensha-Khaine , a fragment of crystallised death capable of slaying daemons and gods alike . |
| 7 | Even so it was a life , an approach , a horizon as necessary to the nourishment of young and old as the most penetrating picture of what we like to call reality . |
| 8 | They 're old as the hills them cushions , in fact they 're |
| 9 | Men were different — thirty-six was only old for a woman . |
| 10 | The Exeter also accepts new members over 65 and under 75 years old for a once-only additional joining premium ( also with tax relief ) . |
| 11 | Workers , for example , are often quite ready to accept as final a statement that they are too old for a job , even when this is not the case . |
| 12 | At 41 , the experts told Liliana she was too old for a natural birth . |
| 13 | You 're not too old for a good smack . ’ |
| 14 | She was too old for a doll 's house now so it did n't matter , but she hoped he would finish what he was doing for Oliver . |
| 15 | Despite his advancing years — at 27 he is old for a thoroughbred — ‘ Rummy ’ will again lead the parade of runners on Martell Grand National day in 1993 . |
| 16 | 30 is not that old for a defender . |
| 17 | And he 's old for a , for a player . |
| 18 | Left three children there and took the took eleven year old for a wa , dog for a walk , and nobody knew she 'd left them there , cos she did n't come back until Sunday afternoon at three o'clock ! |
| 19 | the number to ring there if you want that boy 's racing bike , eight to twelve year old for a fiver , but the tyres might need er might need renewing . |
| 20 | You 're never too old for an orgy . |
| 21 | But nobody could get the movie made at that time , and the question now was whether Val was n't too old for the part . |
| 22 | Inelligible for the Enterprise Allowance Scheme , and at 28 too old for the Prince 's Trust , she eventually got a grant from the Westminster Enterprise Agency . |
| 23 | Never unemployed , she is ineligible for the Enterprise Allowance and , at 28 , too old for the Prince 's Youth Business Trust . |
| 24 | However , those of us too old for the elite ‘ Pirates ’ or ‘ Club 16 ’ need not feel left out . |
| 25 | Nicholson could not now appear in the film because he was too old for the original role which had been designated for him , and anyway he wanted to give it his fullest attention as director . |
| 26 | ‘ She says she is willing to work all her days just to keep a little home of her own ’ , yet she also felt ‘ too old for the work . ’ |
| 27 | Part of the fascination of the old for the very young could be the sense of contact with a long-past world , half haunted . |
| 28 | Likely among youngish thirties types who nonetheless feel too old for The Traditional . |
| 29 | We must look at this quest for beauty as a purpose more real and noble than the quest of the knights of old for the Holy Grail . |
| 30 | So too does Rosalind Russell ; perhaps she sounds a little old for the part , but her dry tones give her numbers a splendidly acerbic edge . |