Example sentences of "[adv] to the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not a familiar object in our recessionary times , especially to the old and people who have been out enjoying themselves . |
| 2 | That idea was already red rag enough to the old gentleman . |
| 3 | They walked down to the Old Rectory gates . |
| 4 | Philip and Lee ran down to the Old Rectory . |
| 5 | There are two cottages here above the beck which passes the church on its way down to the old woollen mill . |
| 6 | The path traverses round this peak and leads down to the Old Church of Martindale ( 2.5 miles ) . |
| 7 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 8 | A BP oil tanker was blocking the narrow lane down to the Old Forge , towering over the thatched cottage to which it was attached by its pipe-line as though with an umbilical cord . |
| 9 | Within the hour they were out into the countryside , following the track which would lead them down to the old Roman road . |
| 10 | In terms of excuses , the jury was told , it was second only to the old chestnut that ‘ it fell off the back of a lorry ’ . |
| 11 | Life-cycle poverty was a condition not confined only to the old . |
| 12 | Sailed over to the old American DEW station today |
| 13 | ‘ There is n't really anything to say , ’ said Lili , ‘ not to the old . |
| 14 | It seems probable that supplies of wire also came from the long demolished Cambridge wire works a few miles away on the River Cam , close to the old road to Dursley . |
| 15 | Ellwood put his mouth close to the old man 's ear and whispered , showing his teeth . |
| 16 | ‘ Close to the old camp in the forest . ’ |
| 17 | But I 'm using a computer , and there 's no need to adhere slavishly to the old methodologies . |
| 18 | She can not communicate it , except possibly to the old woman , who rejects the idea forcibly , " " " That is a new thing . " " " |
| 19 | He would have given more to the old woman , but Marshall , despite the way he looked , was probably well heeled . |
| 20 | Jess had noticed that she never spoke directly to the old man . |
| 21 | Choreographers who do not adhere strictly to the old conventions of court etiquette realise that their total design will flow more easily because their dancers ' behaviour will appear more spontaneous and natural . |
| 22 | ‘ East or west all woods must fail ’ therefore applies both to the Old Forest and to the symbolic woods of Life and Error . |
| 23 | Instead I went straight to the old house . |
| 24 | Old Congress Poland , the section controlled by the Russians , had about 1,000 miles of track by 1890 ; the Austrian and Prussian sectors had a very highly developed system with over 50 lines running up to the old Russian border . |
| 25 | The bridge had been removed but the wooden platform and building were visible from the road below ; there was a roofed stairway leading to platform level , every step was either missing or rotten , so the bottom of the staircase was made completely inaccessible with barbed wire criss-crossed right up to the old roof beam . |
| 26 | Turn left on the road and walk for around 900 yards before turning right onto a path which leads up to the old railway and joins a road up to Castle Bolton Village . |
| 27 | So , I 'd got this house and two or three of us from the refuge went up to the old house and packed everything ready to move . |
| 28 | Not up to the old days ; not for either of them . |
| 29 | The highwayman came riding , up to the old inn-door . |
| 30 | King George 's men came marching , up to the old inn-door . |