Example sentences of "came [adv] [prep] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little plane came down at the old airport , south of the town . |
| 2 | He came away from the Old Entrance , having collected those of the destroyer 's crew not taken off by ML 6 , and as Micky Wynn came up with his special MTB , Robert Ryder told him to fire the torpedoes at the outer lock gate in the Old Entrance . |
| 3 | This was when the need to live together came not from the older generation , but from the child 's own family . |
| 4 | In the 18 years 1798–1815 inclusive , for each million tons sold there were 0.62 explosions and approximately 11 deaths ; in 1817–1834 inclusive the cost was 0.68 explosions , a 10 per cent increase , but with the loss of only 8.7 lives : for 1839–1844 , this had fallen further to 6.5 lives , But the three periods are not easily comparable ; the new production came not from the old collieries described but from new and ever deeper ones to the south and east made accessible after 1815 by steam-and-gravity operated railways . |
| 5 | YOUR reader who came up with the old nonsense about teachers ' holidays obviously knows nothing about the job . |
| 6 | ‘ You know me ? ’ came sharply from the old lady . |
| 7 | A soldier came out of the old jailhouse , rifle held lightly in one hand , barrel pointed down . |
| 8 | Matthew and Sara and the children with them came out of the old woods into the new plantation , where rows of conifers , dark green , were interplanted with small spindly brighter green beeches . |