Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 2 | ‘ I will lie back and think of the old circus days if you insist , ’ she said . |
| 3 | In accordance with the traditional scheme , he distinguishes methods of investigation and discovery from methods of teaching , and refers to the old notions of analysis and resolution , composition and synthesis . |
| 4 | And the peedie fairy came back and lived with the old wife been afore . |
| 5 | At this time , he said , ‘ All I wanted to do was to live , pick up a new Jag , and act at the Old Vic . ’ |
| 6 | Dustin spent hours watching and listening to the old man . |
| 7 | ring my friend if it makes you feel alright it 's ace if you just sit down and listen to the old Beatles is n't it ? feel alright I do n't care too much for money , money ca n't be me love ca n't be me love |
| 8 | I used to go along to Greenbank Hospital 's geriatric wards , where I sang and played to the old folk . |
| 9 | Go and speak to the old man of the woods . |
| 10 | But once at the School , in his own place and with his daily occupation , he began to think again of this dream woman , and added to the old notion of what she should be , which Diana had personified , was an idea of her as his rescuer , as someone who would save him and make him whole again . |
| 11 | In the daytime you can come back and look at the Old State House we 're coming up to and see the cobblestones which mark the place where blood was shed in the great Boston Massacre . |
| 12 | This in its turn was so successful that , within four months of its introduction in 1949 , the available places for the next four years had been booked , so that no new applications could be considered for admissions before 1953 ! 1949 also saw the introduction of Rugby football in place of Association , " to make better use of the space " , a decision then and since deplored and regretted by the Old Stopfordians ' Football Club . |
| 13 | I 'd like to go and work in the Old Bailey with a barrister |
| 14 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |
| 15 | New telephone numbers have been issued to all staff , but a few main enquiry numbers will be retained and calls on the old numbers will be transferred to the new building for the first couple of months . |
| 16 | I went to sleep that afternoon fully dressed , and I did n't wake up until seven forty-five P.M. I washed and changed my clothes , and walked through the old part of the city with its strange , crouch-backed , medieval buildings , like a Hollywood set built for Garbo . |
| 17 | Reaching Georgia Street I turned right and walked past the old Hotel Vancouver to the Hotel Georgia . |
| 18 | Kate neatly side-stepped him , and walked into the old farmhouse . |
| 19 | She stood up and grinned at the old man who owed her his life . |
| 20 | There were further moans and groans at the old toper 's repetition of an apparently well-worn story . |
| 21 | Carrington had already arranged to have it carted away as soon as possible by a salvage unit , and dumped at the old railway sidings at Carluke . |
| 22 | This will be a price worth paying only if the vital expressive quality of the work is sustained and enhanced ; that is to say , whether the carer be man or woman , the tasks to be performed involve a relationship with the old person and one in which the essential core of the response should be benign and experienced by the old person as loving . |
| 23 | Mike pushed the papers back across the desk and looked at the Old Man , who raised his eyebrows questioningly . |
| 24 | Monks hesitated and looked at the old man , but Mr Brownlow 's expression was so serious and determined that the younger man realized it was pointless to protest . |
| 25 | The child stared towards it as if in recognition of something held in memory ; then she turned and looked at the old woman , who was sitting on the couch unlacing her boots , and she said , ‘ You have a garden . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Stand ye in the ways , and see , and ask for the old paths , where is the good way , and walk therein , and yet shall find rest for your souls . ’ |
| 27 | Immortality is for Tithonus a punishment , it is cold and silent whereas death is warm and inviting for the old man . |
| 28 | With that goes a rejection of the corrupted language and thought of the old politics . |
| 29 | Over at Pratt 's , the St James ' club where it is said that Tory leaders were made and unmade in the old days , you would never have guessed there was an election on . |
| 30 | She still giggled girlishly and reverted to the old tomboy type during TV and radio appearances , cleverly signalling to her fans that even if she had become their older sister , she was still their favourite sister . |