Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] the old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 2 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 3 | Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film . |
| 4 | I looked at the old man calmly sitting on his mat and hated him , knowing — knowing myself — that nothing would come of this . |
| 5 | I think I copied from the old lot of |
| 6 | ‘ I went to the old house where she lived and I saw the paintings . |
| 7 | Again , wearily , I went through the old routine ; ferreting around in the calf pen , trying to find some clue . |
| 8 | And I said to the old man I says , er well that 's it now . |