Example sentences of "[adj] old [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it is the historic old houses you are likely to recall long after the memory of the well kept gardens , water sports , smart promenades and bathing pools have faded . |
| 2 | Well right old bitches they are ! |
| 3 | ‘ He crumbled over those two little old ladies he met in Brighton , and did n't being to take the chance that had been offered to him . |
| 4 | What good old troupers they are ! |
| 5 | In the good old days you had lots of career men . |
| 6 | When he had learnt that Miss Alicia Lockwood , whom he considered one of the most charming and fascinating old dears he had ever met , had been mad enough to leave him half her beautiful and fantastic house , for one wild and quixotic moment Matthew had thought of refusing the legacy . |
| 7 | And Stefan , try to write up the Luxembourg so that the emphasis is on that and it detracts from the fact that we 're resurrecting those three tired old numbers we 've so often done before . |
| 8 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |
| 9 | For those who sailed in the convoys , it was a chance to relive a thousand memories ; some rediscovered old pals they had thought killed more than 50 years ago . |
| 10 | He told ugly old women they would meet handsome young men soon , he told handsome young men they would meet large sums of money soon , he told dimwitted mothers that their sons would n't be coming home in nice wooden boxes from theatres of war with a 99 per cent casualty rate , he told collectors where they could locate that elusive antique backscratcher needed to complete a set . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly , the author of these angst-ridden vignettes wholeheartedly agrees , ‘ we 're the same whinging , moaning , miserable old bastards we were 15 years ago and proud of it ! if anything . |
| 12 | Even big old trees you know , they were coming down . |
| 13 | Pessimistic boring old farts i think |
| 14 | Bernard particularly enjoyed the dinner when he served his aristocratic French guests with wine from some dusty old bottles he said he had found in the cellar . |
| 15 | I 'm afraid it 's a good deal classier than the tumble-down old Pullmans I 've found for the rest of you . ’ |
| 16 | The original old ones we 're still on those but it 's |
| 17 | They did notice that , contrary to his usual custom , he showered at the end of the morning 's gym classes ; but since he put on the same grubby and sweaty old clothes he had come in , that was practically a wasted gesture . |
| 18 | In those bad old days she would even shine his shoes for him , and beg for the privilege of hosing down his car . |
| 19 | In the bad old days you could go crazy trying to match a driver 's configuration to the switch settings on a LAN card . |