Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] 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 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 10 | It was a real Fanny-by-gaslight relic of the old city , redolent of gin and vomit and brutal crimes , and the fog had crept in like an old friend and made a dripping urinal of the walls . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ) . |
| 13 | It was getting on for ‘ good night ’ time when I fell in with an old lady who complained that the naughty children of Sligo pulled her ivy down and swore at her . |
| 14 | Neighbours were concerned because a daughter with a psychiatric history , marital difficulties and debts , had moved in with the old couple . |
| 15 | I go in with the old one as well , right ? |
| 16 | With each successive moult the current crop of fungal parasites is shed along with the old exoskeleton . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And then we used to and they used to come along with the old cart and start leading . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Railway Inn has closed , along with the old chemist ‘ s shop . |
| 21 | By now Mick and Paddy had arrived and we took turns , along with an old man and a little girl , to scoop out basins of water . |
| 22 | The Pit derives its name from the steep galley down from an old tin mine , which the Badlands surfers must negotiate to reach the beach below . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Philip dropped down in the old bracken . |
| 28 | Down in the old Arab quarter of Jaffa , the cosy streets of Roberts ' lithographs are all but gone . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |