Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb past] [prep] [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she swam along the bank until she came to the old pontoon . |
| 2 | She ran along the line , stumbling over the planks , until she came to the old pit and the line of empty skips . |
| 3 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 4 | When Anna was first told about it in Rome by that ass of a young man , when she learnt about the old truth , the long lie , she cried out it was a bolt from a clear sky shattering her life . |
| 5 | When she spoke to the old maid , she told her that she would be coming down in the morning . |
| 6 | She was feeling exactly as she had in the old days . |
| 7 | ‘ Right , ’ she said , as she dropped into the old chintz covered settee beside him , ‘ what are you going to do with all that lovely money ? ’ |
| 8 | Not only was Mrs Funnell startled , but Victoria was too , and even Peggy herself as she rounded on the old woman , crying at the top of her voice now , ‘ Like all men of his ilk , with a bloody big moaning mouth , yelling off , I , I , I , all the time , his wants . |