Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had somehow landed myself in the centre of an extraordinary old man 's fantasies . |
| 2 | Afraid Of The Dark ( 18 , Cannon Haymarket , Camden Plaza ) tells the story of an 11-year old boy ( Ben Keyworth ) . |
| 3 | Children could have the right to remove themselves from the at risk register of an 11-year old girl wins her test case in the High Court . |
| 4 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 5 | Never mind the fact they were as comfortable as wearing two fibre-glass tubes filled with iron filings , and stank like an incontinent old sheep dog when wet , they were natural wool and so considered correct . |
| 6 | Family network This involves neighbours , friends and other informal carers , as well as formal carers such as home help or the peripatetic warden , involved on a daily basis with an individual old person . |
| 7 | She had examined with analytical precision her empty and disgusting marriage with an impotent old man , and her candid delight at the death that had put an end to it . |
| 8 | Poor boy , she thought , away from his loving home and now dumped with an irritable old man . |
| 9 | Thirdly , there is a need for better appreciation of the complex dynamics which are at work in small task-focused groups , such as those which come together for case conferences , especially when anxiety about an individual old person is running high . |
| 10 | Fleury was beside himself with distress , but more for Louise 's sake than for the Doctor 's ( he had privately come to consider his prospective father-in-law as an opinionated old fool ) . |
| 11 | The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona . |
| 12 | Yeah , and just a , as an old old taste about them ! |
| 13 | I er er I serve our people with quantity of food that 's supposed to be meant to be a dinner for an old old age person . |
| 14 | It is sited on top of a hill in an attractive old town overlooking ( and reflected in ) the river . |
| 15 | It was like coming across an embarrassing old photograph of herself . |
| 16 | This is a delightful resort built around an attractive old medieval fishing village with much character and charm . |
| 17 | Owen had seen it done during his time in Alexandria , where hysterical prostitutes were quickly restored to life and reason by an experienced old Austrian police officer of the Labban Red Light quarter . |