Example sentences of "[pers pn] an old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May and she she an old boy come in in the week , Carole had Friday afternoon off an old boy was knocking at all these doors and something to do with erm put a tape recorder in your house |
| 2 | Is she an old friend — perhaps somebody you 'd previously met through your stepmother ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I reckon Hatton was right when he called you an old woman , Cullam . ’ |
| 4 | but found me an old yapp album , |
| 5 | She called me an old snout , flipping thing is right , like thing like the noise that I 've |
| 6 | I really must get Dad here ’ — I hissed those two words — ‘ to get me an old car I could drive on the sands . ’ |
| 7 | Close beside them an older coolie , stretched full-length on the earth , was shaking and moaning uncontrollably with malarial fever . |
| 8 | Laura , for instance , had two younger brothers , who were not settling very well into the stockbrokers ' firm in which they had been placed , and numerous uncles , one of them an old horror who obtained Scandinavian au pairs through advertisements in The Lady , and then , of course , her Norfolk cousins . |
| 9 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 10 | Behind them an old woman is standing , staring constantly at the fruit machine . |
| 11 | " We might call him an old shellback , if you think that 'd go down better , instead of an Ancient Mariner . " |
| 12 | There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with . |
| 13 | Someone came to the shop and tried to sell him an old cross with paste stones in it . |
| 14 | He helped Willie into the back and threw him an old rug to cover himself with for he still looked terribly pale . |
| 15 | , but she told Helen , I just called her an old cow and she put the phoned down , well if she thought I said cow , well I do n't know but she went and used that . |
| 16 | Show her an old man with white hair and a long flowing beard and she 'll really think she is . |
| 17 | The tutor found her an old block from a ruined church and brought it to the house . |
| 18 | The flowers were tight budded but one was beginning to open and a transitory evocation of summer came to her , bringing with it an old anxiety . |
| 19 | Above it an old man fished while others sat on benches , tankards in hand . |
| 20 | It was erm er er was it an old English sheepdog ? |
| 21 | Is it an old family ? ’ she asked brightly , trying to tear her mind away from the constant , destructive need to touch him . |
| 22 | It 's not is it an old people 's home or is it something she paid for ? |
| 23 | Erm And yes you 've guessed it an old Motown hit from erm back in the sixties . |
| 24 | And he an old man ! |