Example sentences of "[pers pn] have an old " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 2 | I had an old camping van that I lived in during tournaments , and he chose to go with me in it for a meal in Chinatown in Liverpool . |
| 3 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 4 | I had an old ( circa 1979 ) Leeds mirror up in the hallway . |
| 5 | I have an old Dobro — it 's one of those wooden ones with a metal resonator . |
| 6 | ‘ I have an old friend who works for a publisher in New York and I stayed with her for a couple of weeks while I found a job . |
| 7 | The housewife says she has an old and inefficient vacuum cleaner : this is a statement about the inappropriateness of the tool to the work . |
| 8 | That she had an old Tom , Mary and Tom . |
| 9 | she er think should be eleven quid a week on carpet , she had an old carpet |
| 10 | The last time I saw you , you had an old Gretsch which you were thinking of getting rid of … |
| 11 | If you have an old cooker to donate , or would like to help in other ways , call Janet Kelly on 801–668 1233 . |
| 12 | Below : If you have an old house and want tiles that match its particular period , Old Terracotta tiles from Fired Earth will create a charming atmosphere , but are a practical option in a kitchen . |
| 13 | If you have an old fashioned XT then the only type of memory that you can fit to go beyond 604KBytes is expanded memory — so you it should work with almost any spreadsheet . |
| 14 | Incidentally if you have an old RLL or MFM drive it may be a better bet to replace it with a larger IDE drive , they 're usually faster and much more reliable . |
| 15 | We could n't bring her into the house because we had an old cat and we had no spare kennels , so that just left the caravan . |
| 16 | ‘ We had an old tom cat who used to take the fish — ’ |
| 17 | We had an old inspector , a Manx man , he used to laugh when he saw them coming in with the blood pouring down their heads , fighting and everything . |
| 18 | We had a thing what we called a hay-strewer ; and we had an old horse that we put in this hay-strewer . |
| 19 | And er the cars then of course were all painted in , there were no cellulose paint , we had a paint shop there but er it , and we had an old painter who used to paint the cars in enamel and they were an awful lot of work on them . |
| 20 | When I was young , we had an old Victorian wardrobe with a mirror on it that I used to sing to . |
| 21 | We have an old saying over here : ‘ Things can be critical , but they are never serious ’ . |
| 22 | We have an old silver spoon and a seal at home . |
| 23 | In China we have an old proverb which says , ‘ Never judge the day by the morning ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ And then we have an old lady , more or less an invalid so she never goes out , who thinks she saw someone climbing over the garden fence one night . |
| 25 | Maggie 's mum taught her how to sew , years ago , they had an old Singer from her aunt who died , and ran up the clothes for all the family . |
| 26 | They had an old people 's day room and a young mothers ' club and a crèche and all kinds of projects for youngsters . |
| 27 | They were his mother 's people , they had an old weathered brick house close to the harbour moorings at Annapolis , Maryland . |
| 28 | Our new kitchen is not ultra-modern because I wanted it to have an old look and homely feel . |
| 29 | They bought a tumbledown Victorian terraced house near the Elephant and Castle , cheap because it had an old man as a sitting tenant on the top floor . |
| 30 | It had an old wound on one exposed shoulder , and the lenses of its eyes showed milky white . |