Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the UBR , the Community Charge sought to depart from the old rating system method of calculating local taxes . |
| 2 | Although he never grew much above 5′5″ , Bremner was always in the thick of disputes and played according to the old motto , when the going gets tough , the tough get going . |
| 3 | ‘ Ca n't think why we ever got rid of the old bat . |
| 4 | Then I began to walk along the old coach road . |
| 5 | For a time it became known as the Old Mill , and later Mill House . |
| 6 | It was very late when he left the party , and as he was unable to obtain transport to his home in Mountsorrel , he decided to walk along the old track-bed from Belgrave to Rothley Station , this being the most direct route home . |
| 7 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 8 | The Wisharts resumed their reading , Mrs Wishart kept glancing at the old lady — she could n't help admiring her dress , it was so Victorian and really out of place in 1945 . |
| 9 | When I was young she used to come up to my mother 's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady . |
| 10 | Julie smiled , remembering the times she and her friends had hidden in the old shed during hilarious games of hide and seek and sardines . |
| 11 | If Richard had heard about the old Angevin claim when he began work on a castle within the political orbit of Châtellerault he probably thought it had long since lapsed . |
| 12 | He had heard about the Old Magic at University , although it was forbidden to wizards . |
| 13 | Theda had drawn the curtain about the four-poster open , and the light from her candle had fallen on the old lady 's face . |
| 14 | Along with the name came the Servite Fathers who had officiated at the old church . |
| 15 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 16 | And the worst of it all was , Kate was the one who had to listen to the old sod ! |
| 17 | Sadness far the way he had felt about the old man blended with a sense that his childhood was irrecoverably lost , and the knowledge that the very past when it was in flight Lived , like the present , in continual death . |
| 18 | By this time the trial of Mrs Dyer had moved to the Old Bailey . |
| 19 | It was as though I had died to the old way — and yet I was alive in a new kind of way . |
| 20 | He found he had drawn a noose , remembered how Sandy Riverton had died inside the old bell tower , scribbled it out before Newman could see it . |
| 21 | Holly had talked with the old man and realized only later that when he spoke all those who were within earshot had listened and tried to learn about him from his words . |
| 22 | Speaking of the Commonwealth at the time of Dunkirk in 1940 , Churchill had talked of the old lion with her lion-cubs about her , and a lion that had beaten a unicorn must have ancient strengths that Modernism and Bloomsbury alike between the wars had failed to acknowledge or to note . |
| 23 | He shook his head and continued to stare at the old man , but there was pleading in his voice now . |
| 24 | They had met a fortnight after Meg 's arrival when Alice had called at the Old Rectory with a suitcase of jumble for the annual sale in aid of St Andrew 's Church in Lydsett . |
| 25 | He had walked through the old city with the guard a dozen paces behind . |
| 26 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 27 | Perhaps because of this he contrived to fight on even after his brothers had surrendered to the Old King . |
| 28 | A world that had hoped for the old uprightness , not for the collective cowardice of Colonel John Stephenson and his spineless masters on the International Cricket Council . |
| 29 | Fran exchanged pleasantries with her , curbing her impatience before finally asking if she knew where Luke had gone , and went weak with relief when the other woman informed her that he had gone to the old college . |
| 30 | But now what had happened to the old guard was happening to him , too . |