Example sentences of "used the old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boswell observes that when the clans were disarmed after Culloden , they used the old broadsword as covers for their buttermilk barrels : ‘ a kind of change , ’ he says , ‘ like beating spears into pruning-hooks ’ ; swords turned sadly into ploughshares . |
| 2 | We used the old sash windows from the house , |
| 3 | She used the old phrase . |
| 4 | I then took all the cabinets and gave them deep-dish handles , plus I used the old logo from the early '50s and expanded it length-wise on a computer , to see how it looked . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I used the old illustration : a ball of steel as large as the world , a fly alighting on it once every million years . |