Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [art] old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 2 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 3 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |
| 4 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 5 | Poor old devil , thought Amiss , as he fussed around the old man , removing dish-covers , undoing the napkin , helping him settle himself upright . |
| 6 | He referred to an Old Testament story in which King David , regarded by the Jews as their greatest king , had broken the law when it was necessary to feed his retreating and hungry troops . |
| 7 | He referred to an old paper that is regularly recycled by one of the unions . |
| 8 | He wandered towards the old harbour , now little more than a quiet backwater . |
| 9 | He also lived at Bridge of Weir , and on his way home through Paisley , late at night , he stopped on the old bridge . |
| 10 | He turned to the old gentleman , ‘ Are you the person who was robbed , sir ? ’ |
| 11 | He arrived in an old banger , it was a big farm you know , 500 acre farm , arable and sheep mostly , and it was a long long way right up to this farm , half way up the hill he was going , ’ Gee up then , gee up then . ’ |
| 12 | In his next symphony , No 32 in G , K.318 , he reverted to the old Italian sinfonia form — a shorter , single-movement piece consisting of a slow section sandwiched between two allegros . |
| 13 | He walked from the Old Bailey into Rosie 's arms — then pushed her away in her wheelchair . |
| 14 | As the hon. Member for Livingston can promise his hon. Friends nothing about money , he could not prevent that from happening if he returned to the old system . |
| 15 | He stepped past an old lady , standing still in the middle of the pavement , seemingly looking across the road at a man in elbow-crutches waiting to cross the street . |
| 16 | According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions . |
| 17 | He collapsed outside an old warehouse . |
| 18 | He snarled at the old woman . |
| 19 | When he felt brave enough he took off the old pullover and the tracksuit pants that he 'd been sleeping in and started to dress . |
| 20 | He thought of the old man , and he thought of Sien . |
| 21 | He stumped like an old man . |
| 22 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 23 | and er he went in an old car a model A Ford , there 's a model T Ford on that one |
| 24 | He was playing with it impatiently as he listened to the old man . |
| 25 | He looked into the old woman 's face , saw the sympathy there and the understanding . |
| 26 | He was trying to joke but he was unable to smile as he looked at the old cow . |
| 27 | Then he looked at the old eagle again and shaking his head said , ‘ During the last war when I was a prisoner I knew men who were nearer to death than this and yet by some force of will or perhaps some power greater than us they survived . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're proud of it , are n't you , Aged ? ’ said Wemmick , his face losing all its usual hardness as he looked at the old man . |
| 29 | He looked at the old man , peering darkly under his down-drawn brows ; and there was one who would have questioned and writhed and wondered , pondering long before he would have given any answer , and then , most likely , regretting the answer he had given , whatever it chanced to be . |
| 30 | Now , as he looked at the old woman , his expression became soft , almost tender . |