Example sentences of "back [prep] the [adj] old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a trick , leading him back into the same old treadmill . |
| 2 | THE fans who revelled in Darlington 's magnificent rise from near-obscurity are helping the side slip back into the bad old days . |
| 3 | Back in the good old days Turkey used to be part of what was know as ‘ Asia Minor ’ , or the ‘ Near East ’ , to distinguish its differences from Europe . |
| 4 | Back in the good old days , you could manage your practice with nothing more complicated or technologically advanced than a pen , paper and adding machine , with a manual typewriter thrown in for the real forward thinkers . |
| 5 | And not nearly as much as we used to get back in the good old days , when alien abductions were all the rage . |
| 6 | BACK IN the bad old days , drivers of diesel cars were the social outcasts of the motoring world . |
| 7 | Back in the bad old days when I was infatuated with you , I rang that number twice to find out . |
| 8 | BACK IN the bad old days when home-bred Open champions were a rarity , it was said that British golfers did n't win because they regarded the event as something special , while the Americans regarded it as just another tournament on the circuit . |
| 9 | Back in the bad old days of the ‘ tripartite system ’ and the 11-plus , when it was more acceptable to know your place , and upward mobility was not such an unquestionably good idea , life was easier and less personal for teachers because to a much greater extent their values were stably enshrined in the organization and structures of the schools for which they worked . |
| 10 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 11 | If Mr Newton is right , perhaps Mr Lamont will one day be able to please the traditionalists … by announcing that the railways are to go back to the good old steam age . |
| 12 | That really did take us back to the good old days . |
| 13 | I have the impression that consumers would quite like to get back to the good old days when they used to spend money occasionally , ’ concluded Ainslie Tim . |
| 14 | Concerned Crues Fan Yes , let's go back to the good old days when young , inexperienced Crusaders were getting stuffed every week . |
| 15 | Do you wish you could go back to the good old days ? |
| 16 | Get back to the Good Old Ways . |
| 17 | They will try to frighten voters back to the two old parties . |
| 18 | Education — the election debate that never happened Labour and the Liberal Democrats would take our school system back to the bad old days , argues ANTHONY O'HEAR — so why have n't the voters been told as much ? |
| 19 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 20 | The Fletchers had a flat on the first floor of one of the fine period houses dating back to the bad old days of the monarchy and the Iron Guard . |
| 21 | Back to the bad old days when employers were so busy employing people to push bits of people round and see to inspectors that they did n't have anything to do with training an produced not one single job . |
| 22 | This union along with the Labour Party should have no with the philosophy of workfare , it once and once and for all reject this philosophy and send it back to the bad old days of workhouses , parish guardians , the real Victorian values . |
| 23 | It was back to the same old theme . |
| 24 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 25 | Maybe in forty years time , people will be looking back at the good old days of the Nineties to see which rising stars started their careers playing North-East venues . |
| 26 | Back at the boring old setup program unless you bloody setup Dot I N F file again . |