Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other , Turpins Tavern , is a new building replacing the old Cross Keys , and provides accommodation , food and entertainment — especially at weekends . |
| 2 | My route was from Red Hall to the Havelock pub using the old railway track , soon to be another noise and fume-filled racetrack , courtesy of Durham brains and Darlington apathy . |
| 3 | Meanwhile back on the ward , Doctor Beri 's bleep goes again … this time it 's a call to casualty … and the weary house physician has to run half a mile from one end of the building to the other … along the new corridor linking the old part of the hospital with the new.By the end of the morning , he 's covered six miles … one day recently he covered eighteen miles : |
| 4 | Far too valuable to be let go , it was resurrected by Edward I who acquired in 1280 the manor of Iham in Icklesham , a plateau overlooking the old site . |
| 5 | Instead , as time went on all would find that their followers were gradually accepting the new philosophy leaving the old orders to die . |
| 6 | Passing to our own day , fine editions include the Nonesuch Press issue of 1924–27 , in five volumes with engraved titles and head-pieces by Stephen Gooden ; but many will give pride of place to the Doves Press The English Bible containing the Old Testament and the New , published in 1905 , also in five volumes . |
| 7 | I 'm a bit apprehensive about seeing her again , but I 'm sure she 'll have fun seeing the old hag in her new colours . |
| 8 | A test sentence from data from the recogniser ( both wizened men quickly judged four sharp vixens ) took 17 seconds to build and search the tree using the old method , whereas the new method took 13 seconds . |
| 9 | Ybreska vaulted over the low , crumbling wall surrounding the old churchyard on to the rough pitted track which led towards Tbilisi . |
| 10 | PC Warren Knight is a community policeman patrolling the Old Town area in Swindon . |
| 11 | All that is except for the vast Hotel Continental and the grid lines of an abortive speculative development high on the cliff top overlooking the old railway cutting . |
| 12 | Breavman , the main character of his autobiographical novel The Favourite Came recollected his father singing the old soldiers ' song ‘ K-K-K-Katy … ’ ! |
| 13 | Crouching behind some railway trucks the commandos formed a tiny perimeter facing the Old Mole 's landward side and around the buildings just south of the Entrance . |
| 14 | Even had a little trouble learning the old lines . |
| 15 | He was lying on his back , resting his head in his clasped palms , because his borrowed boots were hurting , and therefore did n't see the look of explosive anger suffusing the Old Stager 's face . |
| 16 | That sounds … interesting … a kind of environmental education style show using the old Screentest format … have you got a name yet ? |
| 17 | It is proposed to extend the car parking facilities with improved amenities and probably a café replacing the old caravan snack bar . |
| 18 | Major changes in the way we conceptualize Nature certainly took place at this time , but historians now suspect that the emergence of Darwin 's theory should not be treated as the only watershed dividing the old way of thinking from the new . |
| 19 | A 600 yard narrow ( 2' ) gauge line following the old trackbed was opened by Meirion Mill in 1975 , but unfortunately it closed in 1977 . |
| 20 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 21 | Set the bridge saddles to the approximate height and intonation position using the old bridge as a guide . |
| 22 | Their discussion comprises the major part of the story , with the Professore arguing the old dialectical materialist line . |
| 23 | At one time sharing the old Norn language , even there we had been forced to diverge , because while Shetland became absorbed into Scotland and obliged to take on the Scots/English language , the Faroese managed to retain and develop their own language , using that of their ‘ parent ’ country Denmark as the second tongue . |
| 24 | Only had one sitting , spent the whole time fending the old bugger off . |
| 25 | On or near this spot , now next to the Police House , stands Glebe House continuing the old association . |