Example sentences of "remembered the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at that exciting moment , I remembered the old Admiral Benbow , and I seemed to hear the voice of old Bill , the seaman , singing with them . |
| 2 | He remembered the old adage from his studies , ‘ If a problem exists then a logical solution must also exist It is only a matter of time before you find it ’ . |
| 3 | He remembered the old map in the library , said to have been drawn by Richard Carew himself . |
| 4 | I remembered the old man in the military coat and knew I would have felt safer with a handful of dry knucklebones in my pocket . |
| 5 | Mungo remembered the old superstition that seagulls were the souls of dead sailors , and wondered whether these magnificent birds might be the spirits of lost travellers , doomed forever to haunt the scene of their disappearance . |
| 6 | He remembered the old church , and from the description of it which he wrote in old age , it is possible to form a more complete picture of its internal arrangements than of any other pre-Conquest church . |
| 7 | She remembered the old Martin , gentle and caring , and the new Martin , savage and determined . |
| 8 | They may have even been friendly but I remembered the old saying , ‘ On a dark lonely road , one never meets a friend ’ . ’ |
| 9 | He remembered where the saints had lain , and where the altars had stood ; he remembered the old confusion of secular and ecclesiastical affairs , and the use of the south porch as the place where pleas were settled which could get no solution in hundred or shire or royal court . |
| 10 | His cheeks burned as he remembered the older man 's words . |