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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a old " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He told me about an old school behind a high wall in a dirty street .
2	Most people kept their papers in tobacco tins ; one man kept his in a biscuit tin , and one shaikh stored his in an old suitcase .
3	My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos .
4	The Old Gang Smelting Mills reminded me of an old deserted coal pit I played around as a child .
5	Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then
6	In shades of kitchen mists , with eyes of light showing only murk and seams of film and grease , the air hung above and behind me like an old sink full of old washing-up .
7	I 'll swap you for an old X T Myrtle
8	My Pop came to me with an old Army pistol in his hand , knelt beside me and said , ‘ If you want me to kill him , I will .
9	Lily 's father presented me with an old pistol he had .
10	The moustached man opens his palm , presenting me with an old square of foil , streaked with dry runs of smack .
11	Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls .
12	I found them in an old file .
13	The streets of the city welcomed her as an old friend as she made her way unerringly towards the brilliantly lit entrance of Tivoli .
14	But they greeted her as an old friend .
15	Yeah do him as an old hedgehog .
16	I would cherish her like an old man who 's caught a barmaid .
17	After that he greeted her like an old friend each morning ; she did n't mind , it was dull talking to Magnus who seldom listened , and he gave her protection from the intense political views of the Afghan 's owner .
18	Well they can make her into an old , old lady
19	They walked with him to an old wooden building near the farmhouse .
20	Now Sebastian is dead , long dead , and Alix is married to Brian Bowen , son of a saw polisher , grandson of a furnaceman , and often sits with him on an old settee in her stockinged feet .
21	Few more unfortunate poets can be imagined than W.H. Davies , yet there was no one more cheerful than he as an old man .
22	Instead of sending back to Britain for a , a part , they took it off an old tank you see , and on that had been part was still all right you see , but the tank was er useless but there would maybe be a bit of the track alright , so we cannibalized them .
23	Oh what was it like an old Dallas ?
24	That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record .
25	Because in the poorer streets , if you saw — the neighbours in the street knew an old couple , they were too old to work … and if you saw an old blue van with a coat of arms on it with an old horse , old grey horse driven by an old grey man , drive up the street , stop outside the door , you knew that the old couple were on the way to the workhouse .
26	Eventually he opened one for us by hitting it with an old chisel .
27	She fetched a cardboard box left over from her last shopping trip , lined it with an old towel and put the tiny creatures in .
28	He 'd much sooner keep it in an old pair of tights . ’
29	Use a smooth four-ply yarn and you can attach it to an old test piece for a trial run .
30	There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge .