Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 2 | ‘ They like her music very much but to be honest I am of the older regime , I prefer the traditional Welsh choral music . |
| 3 | You 're like the old man you are , go somewhere , stay five minutes and then go . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're in the old room , I suppose . ’ |
| 5 | Well it is n't long when you 're in the old . |
| 6 | We 're going for a walk along the river to see if we can if the swans are near the Old Gate Bridge . |
| 7 | The arcuate island chain of the Outer Hebrides is underlain by rocks which are amongst the oldest in Britain , principally comprising Lewisian gneisses with some granites and younger sedimentary rocks . |
| 8 | Adjoining the exhibition in Shop No. 20 are the workshops of Swindon Railway Workshops Ltd. , a company set up to carry out complete overhauls to locomotives , carriages and wagons ( or their major components ) for preservation societies , private owners and museums such as the N.R.M. many of the employees are ex the old Swindon works . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ We are bound to face criticism from both sides , from people saying we should be locking up thousands of juvenile offenders and throwing away the key and others throwing up their hands and saying they are like the old approved schools and will be universities of crime . ’ |
| 10 | For the kings of the East Saxons to have acknowledged a dependency on the king of Kent would have been in the oldest known tradition of Kentish-East Saxon relationships , and the same is true of Surrey . |
| 11 | Most of the executions have been in the old South . |
| 12 | It seemed like an excellent opportunity to put himself to the test , see if his reflexes were as finely honed as they had been in the old days . |
| 13 | I knew it could n't be restored to what it had been in the old days , but there was still room for a club where members had fun rather than did business . |
| 14 | Both are from the Old Swan area of the city . |
| 15 | We are in the Old Vicarage Farm now , which Johnson describes as a pretentious heap of shit built to impress the local peasants . |
| 16 | Five apartments are in the old abbey , one in the adjoining outbuilding and five in the farmhouse next to the nearby swimming pool . |
| 17 | ‘ They are mentioned in our history and they are in the old texts . |
| 18 | Walk over it , and you are in the old town , all peace and quiet . |
| 19 | The machineheads are in the older Kluson style , with incredibly convenient slotted string posts for tucking those unwieldy string ends into , thus protecting oneself from the horrors associated with hypodermic guitar string injury . |
| 20 | He thought of Beryl and the need to come to grips with the Garland set-up as it had been before the old man 's death . |
| 21 | To my surprise and consternation I found the St Viger to be about the oldest hotel in Canada , probably First Class A-l in its time , but now somewhat run down , although the rooms were large and rather ornate . |
| 22 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 23 | tut , but I 'm of the old breed I suppose are n't I ? |
| 24 | Surely I can not be like the old murmuring Israelites , to long after the onions and garlic of Egypt when they had suffered there such heavy bondage ? |
| 25 | It 'll be like the old days . ’ |
| 26 | What used to be like the Old Vic has become the vaudeville of Thatcherism Undone . |
| 27 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
| 28 | There are two bells hung from a stout beam , thought to be from the old church , and eight tubular bells given in 1888 . |
| 29 | Well he 's as sure as hell gon na be round the old people 's homes ! |
| 30 | ‘ Feels grand to be in the old heap again , ’ says Crilly . |