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 ’ . |