Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the old [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 2 | But she no longer treated him with the old irritable dismissiveness ; she knew of Edouard 's reputation as a businessman , and obviously had heard his abilities praised , for she now regarded him warily , as if trying to decide whether , after all , she might have been wrong , and her younger son might be of use to her . |
| 3 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 4 | Then the newly installed chicane turned out to be a terrifying obstacle , though Emerson still preferred it to the old flat-out curve . |
| 5 | The announcement came in a Commons written reply by the roads minister , Kenneth Carlisle , but by that time most of the UK 's 9000 test stations had already halted the test and replaced it with the old visual check for excess smoke . |
| 6 | Back in the main town , we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter . |