Example sentences of "[noun] see an old " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1853 , after visiting the Strand union workhouse to see an old nurse , she conceived the idea of systematic visits to the workhouse by neighbourhood ladies to say prayers and converse with the inmates . |
| 2 | Every week Diana and another girl saw an old lady in Sevenoaks . |
| 3 | ‘ In Redruth to see an old mate of mine . ’ |
| 4 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 5 | My pupils saw an old tormented master , |