Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , it is a family archive covering the period since the thirteenth century ; secondly , the dukes of Norfolk have been Earls Marshal and Hereditary Marshals of England for many centuries ; and finally , as the family has adhered to the old religion , many documents have an important bearing on English ( Roman ) Catholic history . |
| 2 | Frequently it is designed quickly in order to solve a problem that has occurred with the old system . |
| 3 | The insolvency department has moved to Southampton based Lyon Pilcher , the Salisbury office is closing down with the loss of four jobs , and Gaynor Harris is back where she started with the Southampton practice ( to be known as Hook Harris ) which she has bought from the old partnership with Charles Bullworthy , with money borrowed from family and friends . |
| 4 | The idea was that " bubbles " of the new phase of broken symmetry would have formed in the old phase , like bubbles of steam surrounded by boiling water . |
| 5 | You would have to strip off the old veneer and put a whole new one on . |
| 6 | He had lost whatever little respect he might have had for the old guard of English political life . |
| 7 | I think I should have stayed at the old school where they had confidence in me . |
| 8 | On teaching practice the students operated quite differently from what would have happened under the old system . |
| 9 | Though explicitly Christian , ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ forms between the earlier and later work a bridge over which the reader ( with access to the gospel word ) may cross into the release of Christianity , the new birth ; but , denied that access , the speaker of the poem can only seek relief in death to escape from having to return to the old way in which he is ‘ no longer at ease ’ . |
| 10 | What did the shops used to be like cos you used to have to go to the Old Town did n't you ? |
| 11 | When we went to gigs David used to travel in Ralph Horton 's car and we used to have to go in the old ambulance which replaced the old Atlas van . |
| 12 | Julie smiled , remembering the times she and her friends had hidden in the old shed during hilarious games of hide and seek and sardines . |
| 13 | If Richard had heard about the old Angevin claim when he began work on a castle within the political orbit of Châtellerault he probably thought it had long since lapsed . |
| 14 | He had heard about the Old Magic at University , although it was forbidden to wizards . |
| 15 | Theda had drawn the curtain about the four-poster open , and the light from her candle had fallen on the old lady 's face . |
| 16 | Along with the name came the Servite Fathers who had officiated at the old church . |
| 17 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 18 | Before I can summon up some energy , we 've parked near the Old Dungeon Ghyll and Gordon is hoisting a huge frame rucksack onto his back , packed with his Hasselblad medium format camera and various other photographic gizmos . |
| 19 | when the old boy comes round and see what you 've done with the old horse manure , spread some of that around and that 'll make them grow as well |
| 20 | And the worst of it all was , Kate was the one who had to listen to the old sod ! |
| 21 | Sadness far the way he had felt about the old man blended with a sense that his childhood was irrecoverably lost , and the knowledge that the very past when it was in flight Lived , like the present , in continual death . |
| 22 | By this time the trial of Mrs Dyer had moved to the Old Bailey . |
| 23 | It was as though I had died to the old way — and yet I was alive in a new kind of way . |
| 24 | He found he had drawn a noose , remembered how Sandy Riverton had died inside the old bell tower , scribbled it out before Newman could see it . |
| 25 | Holly had talked with the old man and realized only later that when he spoke all those who were within earshot had listened and tried to learn about him from his words . |
| 26 | Speaking of the Commonwealth at the time of Dunkirk in 1940 , Churchill had talked of the old lion with her lion-cubs about her , and a lion that had beaten a unicorn must have ancient strengths that Modernism and Bloomsbury alike between the wars had failed to acknowledge or to note . |
| 27 | They had met a fortnight after Meg 's arrival when Alice had called at the Old Rectory with a suitcase of jumble for the annual sale in aid of St Andrew 's Church in Lydsett . |
| 28 | He had walked through the old city with the guard a dozen paces behind . |
| 29 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 30 | Perhaps because of this he contrived to fight on even after his brothers had surrendered to the Old King . |