Example sentences of "old [noun sg] who [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Gooseneck found out about it through a retired old retainer who lived in the area .
2 To George 's annoyance , everyone seems to be conspiring against his grandiose plans — especially the old lady who arrives on the same day as Tony Madoc .
3 Wycliffe was startled by the question , which did not come from Sarah but from an old lady who sat on the far side of the fire .
4 ‘ who is that fierce old lady who lives in the white cottage ? ’
5 The woman who came in to clean and the old boy who saw to the garden had been instructed to call him ‘ Mr ’ Lewis and he felt very much the heir .
6 One old stalwart who stuck with the whole match contracted such a severe cold that he died of exposure .
7 They quoted the old woman who announced outside the Old Bailey that ‘ he got what he deserved ’ .
8 Can you wonder that Virginia , the Elf Second , used to put her head down , keep her eyes fixed straight in front of her , and pedal as hard as she could past Wardle Wood and the old woman who lived in the cottage in the middle of it .
9 ‘ The old woman who lived in the hills , ’ Constance cried in delight .
10 It was a heavy fall and Rain 's first thought was for the nervous old woman who lived in the flat below .
11 ‘ But one morning , the old woman who worked in the house began to talk about Arthur .
12 There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge .
13 That evening Sid and I dined off piping hot oxtail soup , steak and kidney pie , followed by a very rich plum duff , all washed down with a bottle of French cider , given to us by the old Frenchman who lived in the cottage near the entrance to the orchard .
14 ‘ He was a very old man who worked in the same room as John Dyson and myself . ’
15 At a table crammed into the wall , I stare into space , trying to ignore an old man who yells at the barmaid and another who sits doubled over with his pink mottled head against the table , sleeping and snoring .
16 Bodie had talked to the caretaker of the first , and Doyle tackled the surly old man who resided in the basement apartment of the second .
17 There are one or two old professors here left over from before the liberation ( apparently no profs have been appointed since ) and the professor of English , Prof. Chen Jia , is a charming though deaf old fellow who studied in the U.S.A. , and who used to write books on English literature before the Cultural Revolution put a stop to all that sort of thing — but even so he quoted a bit of Chaucer to me surreptitiously at the dinner table .
18 What did irritate me was the old crusty-type who went through the motions of standing in front of everyone and asking them if they ‘ had any spare change for an old dosser ’ .
19 What did irritate me was the old crusty-type who went through the motions of standing in front of everyone and asking them if they ‘ had any spare change for an old dosser ’ .
20 The goose was to come from Mr Evans 's older sister who lived outside the town and kept poultry .
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