Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] to [art] old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was agreed that only ten people should tramp round the tiny cottage at a time ; the remainder were forced to mingle with the morning shoppers and then to walk on to the old St Mary 's Chapel , which once had held the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow and to which passing ships would lower their sails in honour . |
| 2 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 3 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 4 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
| 5 | Nevertheless you also feel pressure on you to go back to the old ways . |
| 6 | After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways . |
| 7 | We need to go back to the old ways : I mean , think of it , it was in the Andes that corn was improved , that the potato was developed . |
| 8 | ‘ I would love to go back to the old house … |
| 9 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 10 | Around 300 yards past the car park and toilet area you pass through a wide kissing gate to get on to the old railway track . |
| 11 | Would I be able to change back to the old registration plates ? |
| 12 | It was an insult : they did n't need white nannies — did more than two black people in a room constitute a riot ? -were they to step back to the old plantation days ? — had Kinnock and Hattersley been drunk when they drafted the proposal ? |