Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] an old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was situated in an old house , a three-storey building which the students and others had the run of , more or less . |
| 2 | His front leg was paralysed from an old road accident , our vet guessed the owners had abandoned her rather than pay for the amputation . |
| 3 | A JUROR miffed that his £1.20 travelling expenses were not being paid was sacked from an Old Bailey case yesterday . |
| 4 | The place was owned by an old ship 's captain . |
| 5 | The schoolmistress did not live in the School House , which was occupied by an old grannie , who every day called me to come and talk to her when she was out in her small garden , or in the cottage when the weather was less promising . |
| 6 | The latter was done on an old cooker which was based on the storage principle . |
| 7 | Tim was looking through an old photograph album she 'd put out , with pictures of previous Christmases . |
| 8 | I had half-managed to con a colleague in the Press-box into believing that the Brewongle Stand was named after an old left-arm spinner from Parramatta named Bluey Brewongle when I saw the dark-green uniforms emerging from the pavilion , and the emotions crowded in with a sudden impact . |
| 9 | The island pool was built inside an old distillery warehouse , gifted by Morrison Bowmore Distillers , which now houses a sauna , launderette and sunbed as well as the standard-sized pool . |
| 10 | She had these maps One of them was drawn on an old envelope , a paper one I do n't know how she came by it Maybe she drew it herself , when she was young , and forgot . |
| 11 | He knocked on the door of the gatehouse , which was opened by an old man . |
| 12 | Well the point was you see , we had a dumb hopper , the dumb hopper was towed by an old tug , they had to tow that dumb hopper to sea , what was called dumb cos they ai n't got no engines and so that was towed to sea and then course the er the dumb hopper ha had four winches , hand winches and then they , cos they had the chains on the but the steam hopper |
| 13 | She was wrapped in an old cloak which did little to ward off the elements , but she was oblivious to any discomfort . |
| 14 | His political career was helped by an old school friend , Charles ( later Baron ) Western [ q.v. ] , who introduced him to Eleanor Ord , daughter of Charles Brandling , MP , widow of William Ord , and a distant cousin of Charles ( later second Earl ) Grey , the future prime minister . |
| 15 | A man was dozing in an old armchair . |
| 16 | Mr Paul Bagni , general manager of Dalgety , said : ‘ I am convinced the pilot was aiming for an old airfield behind our plant but came down just short of it . ’ |
| 17 | Some people complained when the owners painted it white , but it was proved from an old book that Normans often painted their castles . ’ |
| 18 | He was descended from an old family of local landowners , the Leftwich family of Leftwich Hall , Cheshire . |
| 19 | This bar was run by an old woman who for twenty years had run a Legion brothel in Algeria before retiring to Orange after the Legion moved to mainland France . |
| 20 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 21 | By turning to the Falangist component of the regime forces in this way , Franco was resorting to an old tactic . |
| 22 | One unfortunate woman who ran a discount shoe store was oblivious to the fact she was sitting on an old school goldmine . |
| 23 | This day , I was sitting by an old lady , almost as old as I am now , I suppose . |
| 24 | There was he , in his double-breasted suit , riding around in a chauffeured limousine , looking every inch a Prime Minister in waiting , while the real incumbent was standing on an old box , ducking flying eggs . |
| 25 | But she and the charity have stood side by side and today she was welcomed like an old friend in Milton Keynes . |
| 26 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 27 | I was talking to an old man in my constituency only last week . |
| 28 | Anna was talking to an old friend of theirs , Irena Ignatiev . |
| 29 | An occasional member of the fugitive genteel stuck it grimly out until death ; once Clara was accosted by an old lady , battered and ragged and bent , who said as she walked along , and in accents of refined madness , that once the people that lived there had held their heads up high . |
| 30 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |