Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a old " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Dry your hair through an old fashioned hair net or a soft silk scarf . |
| 4 | One can not negotiate where an agency has clear rules , for example about the necessity for undertaking a financial assessment for an old person being admitted to local authority residential care . |
| 5 | There is a story about an old man who was called in by a factory to fix their ancient boiler , which had ground to a halt . |
| 6 | On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 7 | May and she she an old boy come in in the week , Carole had Friday afternoon off an old boy was knocking at all these doors and something to do with erm put a tape recorder in your house |
| 8 | ‘ Surely it did n't hurt you to spare a few minutes for an old man ? ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , The Prelude did not really command a wide readership until the end of the nineteenth century , when the image of the poet as an old man ( 'Daddy Wordsworth' ) was finally replaced for younger readers with the more appealing picture of the revolutionary poet of the 1790s . |
| 10 | I had Brennan as an Old England man ( 5 ) |
| 11 | Michael Calvin wrote : ‘ Cardiff Arms Park is as much a relic of former glory as the pithead wheel of an old mine ’ ! |
| 12 | Not unreasonably , given what had happened in 1984 , Lady Thatcher had forsaken the Grand for the Hospitality Inn on the recommendation of an old ally , Sir Alfred Sherman , who had praised the pool , solarium , gymnasium and beauty salon . |
| 13 | It does n't matter what you send us , as long as it 's your own work , it 's an original idea ( or an enhancement of an old one ) and you 've tested it thoroughly . |
| 14 | Here was the scandal seen through the eyes of an old man , its central figure , but now powerless , toothless and thoughtless ; easily tired , and probably over-cautioned on the dangers of speaking in courtrooms . |
| 15 | It was bad enough to have to produce a mother who smelled of hens , worse to have all one 's guests disconcerted by the beady eyes of an old countrywoman . |
| 16 | When Monica Cooper , a retired Wirral midwife , heard that the show was to visit Queensferry she sent programme makers a photograph of an old chest in the hope of having it dated by experts . |
| 17 | The scraggy neck and brutally squared and misshapen breasts put one in mind of an old woman , worked over by a lifetime of misfortune . |
| 18 | I spoke to them in the doorway of an old stone-flagged kitchen full of saintly pictures . |
| 19 | On the other hand , among the general clutter , only a few feet off , I could see the upturned keel of an old clinker-built rowing boat . |
| 20 | He would have been still more surprised if he had been told that the closing of an old railway station would one day move men to sadness no less than the demolition of a Gothic church or the violation of a landscape . |
| 21 | His forehead was tightly wound round with a torn piece of an old checked head-scarf in an effort to ease his headache . |
| 22 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 23 | I well remember the words of an old foreman who said to me , Son , even if you have the talent and ability to take you to the top , there is still no guarantee that you will ever get there , or even half way . |
| 24 | Both the sun and the pale moon were in the sky above her , and she was , in the words of an old adept , ‘ running without running , moving without motion ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ MARRY in May and rue the day ’ run the words of an old saying . |
| 26 | He was fed and sheltered by the Penderel family , spending a day hidden in the branches of an old oak tree with one of his trusted officers , William Careless . |
| 27 | She skirted its edge and at last spotted a possible entry , finding a stick to whack at the jagged branches of an old dogrose . |
| 28 | Fashionable dining in the tranquil setting of an old grain mill . |
| 29 | I knew where it was — she kept everything valuable stuffed down the side of an old sofa — but I pretended not to notice . |
| 30 | The associative initiatives I have mentioned often produce only small and short-lived changes in feminist psychology , or turn into a recapitulation of one side of an old polarity . |