Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | From out of the darkness at the back of her cage came the slow and ailing movement of a wing ; then the drag of a weak old talon , then the hunch of a back that was grey and dry with age and illness ; and finally in the archway of the shelter entrance where the dank morning light fell , the aged and troubled form of an eagle . |
| 2 | Hers was the ground floor flat of a tall old house which had seen better days and the communal front door was reached by means of three stone steps . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes of course , ’ said Taliesin , his eyes going also to the motionless figure , because it was certainly unthinkable that they should leave Fergus like this , in the middle of a dark old mansion at the heart of an ancient forest . |
| 4 | The picture of a pathetic old man in the hands of a scheming young woman is the fantasy of nineteenth-century , not ninth-century , historians . |
| 5 | Next to it was the faded print of a wizened old lady almost totally obscured by a black chador — his mother standing proudly in her rose garden in Yazd . |
| 6 | This would mean that a ten-year old child in this category would have the mental abilities of a two-year old . |
| 7 | Another gave us his wartime petrol coupons , an early tram ticket , and – a most valuable piece of ephemera this year – some bound copies of a gorgeously-illustrated old magazine called ‘ The Graphic ’ . |
| 8 | For this showing the drawings include : Giovanni Bellini ‘ Head of a bearded old man ’ ; Fra Angelico ‘ Head of a cleric ’ ; Raphael ‘ The Three Graces ’ ; Michelangelo ‘ Head of a young woman ’ ; Bernini ‘ Self Portrait ’ and works by G-B . |
| 9 | He 's getting a bit of a boring old fart ! |
| 10 | You can recreate an electric guitar accurately enough , down to fractions of a millimetre if you want to , but can you recreate the thirty years of wear and tear that 's the main attraction of a knackered old Strat ? |
| 11 | The size of a five-year old , though quite adult in appearance , she was wearing a well-tailored white cotton short-sleeved blouse , a blue denim wraparound skirt , and open-toed sandals . |
| 12 | The father of a six-week old baby told Valerie Yule , ‘ We know other parents who smack their babies to keep them quiet . |
| 13 | In Drenthe , with his unerring instinct for bringing old and new together , he took note of a gnarled old apple tree , how ‘ at certain moments ( it ) bears blossoms that are among the most delicate and virginal things under the sun . ’ |
| 14 | Salieri 's ‘ admission ’ may thus be discounted as the ravings of a demented old man . |
| 15 | In the old days , incidentally , when a mother discovered her daughter was the innocent young victim of the lust of a rich old man , there were several obvious remedies . |
| 16 | Now the ship greyhound outline of a frigate but rather that of a clumsy old sow with submarine piglets suckling beside her . |
| 17 | made of a dirty old |
| 18 | When I wrote to my new employer conveying my regrets at the situation , I received by reply from America instructions to recruit a new staff ‘ worthy of a grand old English house ’ . |
| 19 | Through the window I could see the rooftops of a grand old rococo building , an oriental fantasy of domes and cupolas . |
| 20 | In her small workroom on the top floor of a crumbling old warehouse in Whitechapel Theresa Arnold shivered and turned on another bar of her portable gas fire . |
| 21 | In America , image-making started early when at the beginning of this century , wealthy John D Rockefeller Jr , hired a press agent to change his image from that of a mean old rich man to that of philanthropist . |
| 22 | Roland GR-1 Guitar Synth The popular image of guitar synthesis is that of a tired old dog people have long since stopped throwing sticks for . |
| 23 | What for example is the market value of a three-year old mainframe computer , or a seven-year old fork-lift truck ? |
| 24 | Two schools of thought , led by influential rabbinic teachers , Shammai and Hillel , disagreed vehemently on their interpretations of a key Old Testament passage dealing with divorce . |
| 25 | We 're sat either side of a small old table , just big enough to take a tray of tea , set simply alongside other tables and chair sin the cheaply luxurious lounge of the Country Club hotel in Cork , Ireland . |
| 26 | Balor had fallen headlong and was lying on the forest floor , one foot caught and held by the root of a huge old ash Tree that protruded from the ground . |
| 27 | When she had picked up all her parcels and disentangled the umbrella from the bonnet of a fierce-looking old lady , she went up to them at a more decorous pace , and joined in their unfeeling laughter . |
| 28 | By way of variation , though , she sang a simple setting of a poignant old Irish poem , which began in a lovely duet between her and Kellock , with drummer John Rae on bodhran , but eventually turned into a full-steam work out for the trio , which was completed by bass player Andy Mitchell . |
| 29 | If however the mental age of a ten-year old is only five , the IQ rating will only be 50 : — |
| 30 | He 's got the mind of a ten-year old . |