Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] old [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or shovelled off into the Old Folks like me . |
| 2 | The train will be the Ffestiniog 's Vintage Train , made up of the oldest vehicles on the railway , some dating back to the 1860's . |
| 3 | Tomorrow we 'll test the strings we 've made , and see how they measure up against the old ones for reliability . |
| 4 | It may be that they were climbing up into the older parts of the mine above the Grand Level to ascertain whether all the worthwhile ore had been taken out . |
| 5 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 6 | Matthew and Sara and the children with them came out of the old woods into the new plantation , where rows of conifers , dark green , were interplanted with small spindly brighter green beeches . |
| 7 | But er there were so many open cars and we had an upholsterer who er made the hoods and repaired the hoods and upholstery and er we even made things out of the old scraps of these er just to , we made bags for , for carrying trade plates for er people going away for cars . |
| 8 | Plenty of men could n't settle back into the old ruts after the war . |
| 9 | It was later , in the boredom of those long , lonely evenings , that her resolve collapsed and , despite herself , she slipped back into the old habits of sniping at Marie , horrified at what she was doing to them both , yet unable , in her bitterness and isolation , to stop herself . |
| 10 | Then , looking back into the old recipes for English fruit fools , we find that trifles , syllabubs , creams and fools have all at some point merged one with the other . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 12 | The New City of Craigavon is taking many of these extra people , as well as some who are moving out from the older areas of Belfast which are being rebuilt . |
| 13 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |