Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most letters asked for autographs or photographs , some complained of or praised a person interviewed or view expressed , and there was always a sprinkling of old dears short of correspondents who rambled on about the old days . |
| 2 | You 're on about the old King George ! |
| 3 | I mean when he er you know when that thing was going on about the old ? |
| 4 | Down through the old meat-market streets , into the tunnel with its rows of lights like neon stitching and its shiny cream tiles , up into Venus , then round the western edge of the harbour and back over the bridge to C Street . |
| 5 | In this case we were lucky and the route had been re-equipped with new bolts placed in between the old bolts . |
| 6 | Sam 's boat was one of the last to sail in between the old forts , and Harry , who was standing at the end of the stone quay in order to crow over the birth of his son and demand payment of his winnings , saw with a twinge of jealousy that Gristy 's ketch was well down in the water . |
| 7 | In January of 1825 Barratt had decided upon an ambitious and costly project ; a deep adit level to be driven as a cross-cut , some 230 yds. downstream from Taylor 's Level into the eastern bank of Red Dell Beck and in a northerly direction , to come in below the old workings and to explore the vein , especially below that section expected to be opened up by Taylor 's . |
| 8 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 9 | They meandered along under the old overhanging house fronts and Jack had to duck his head to avoid cracking it on a lamp in an iron cage . |
| 10 | From the top you can go down into the old crater via a scree slope which , viewed from the other side , looks impossibly steep ( ’ I 'm never going down there ! ’ ) but is actually quite easy ( the descent is 600ft . ) . |
| 11 | Neighbours were concerned because a daughter with a psychiatric history , marital difficulties and debts , had moved in with the old couple . |
| 12 | I go in with the old one as well , right ? |
| 13 | With each successive moult the current crop of fungal parasites is shed along with the old exoskeleton . |
| 14 | This contract should be reconsidered as the elderly person 's progress or ‘ career ’ in the home is reviewed on a regular quarterly or half yearly basis , with the same social worker still responsible , and the family present or represented , along with the old person . |
| 15 | And then we used to and they used to come along with the old cart and start leading . |
| 16 | Sugar beeting in those days , you used to stick the old plough in , plough them up and then we had to go along knocking them , to knock all the soil off , then chop the tops off , put them in heaps , go along with the old horse and cart . |
| 17 | The Railway Inn has closed , along with the old chemist ‘ s shop . |
| 18 | Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet . |
| 19 | ‘ A number of local residents commented that there was already a disproportionate ratio of pigs to people in the locality and although proposals to extend the operation would have led to some improvement , in that a new farrowing house would have been built to bring the pigs in from the old farm buildings , in fact the larger pig population would increase the scope for offensive odours to permeate the village . ’ |
| 20 | She observes that the prisoner is following a prohibition laid down in the Old Testament , but that a rabbinical ruling had allowed Jews to eat in the camps on Yom Kippur in order to stay alive . |
| 21 | Philip dropped down in the old bracken . |
| 22 | Down in the old Arab quarter of Jaffa , the cosy streets of Roberts ' lithographs are all but gone . |
| 23 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 24 | When it comes to crime and punishment , the penalties laid down in the Old Testament for offences against the person are more severe than for offences against property . |
| 25 | Well , there was talk about er getting the old hall down in the old street community centre , not the , the |
| 26 | The pound has recently traded at DM2.40 to 2.45 , 12% to 15% down on its former ERM floor and 15% to 18% down on the old DM2.95 central rate . |
| 27 | The Last Time on the slag heap , bumping face down on the old tray and scraping his knee . |
| 28 | They walked down to the Old Rectory gates . |
| 29 | Philip and Lee ran down to the Old Rectory . |
| 30 | There are two cottages here above the beck which passes the church on its way down to the old woollen mill . |