Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , his teaching about his own role in the purposes of God depends entirely on the conviction that he must fulfil the Old Testament . |
| 2 | The man who 'd taken a photograph of the bus asked if he might photograph the old people also , and the bus-driver told him to wait a minute . |
| 3 | David took a step forward , stretching out his hand as though he might touch the old man , but a hard forbidding glare stopped him in his tracks . |
| 4 | He could feel the old wood beneath his fingers , smell the strong pine scent of the fire . |
| 5 | He could see the old hay wagon by the light of the yard lamp , but there was no sign of Billy and Janet . |
| 6 | David Beaton poulticed it every time he could get the old man to stay at peace long enough , but as soon as it started to heal Eachuinn would be up and about , restless , until the deep puncture festered and broke out again . |
| 7 | For a brief moment , she actually thought he would defy the old man , but then her heart sank when he sheepishly replied , ‘ Perhaps it would be for the best , dear . ’ |
| 8 | That day the bones of the brother of my mother who went to the bottom of the sea will rise up through the green waters , and when they meet the air they will take on his flesh again , and he will swim far up into the endless air and he will meet the old man , free of his dust walking in the air , and my mother flying , and me flying , and I will be laughing . |