Example sentences of "[noun] my old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking further into the shed , I paused and looked around wondering how many times my old father must have walked through it . |
| 2 | The only sport my old man was interested in was beating up the rest of the family . |
| 3 | and a knick knack paddy wack give the dog a bone , my old man went tumbling home and a knick knack paddy wack give a dog a bone my old man went tumbling home How much is that doggy in the window , woof woof Woof woof , woof woof . |
| 4 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 5 | I knew far better than to turn my head , but I had the feeling my old builder stayed squatting by the roadside . |
| 6 | Last Christmas my old friend Joseph had sunk lower in his chair from the year before but in the afternoon three old friends came to see him . |