Example sentences of "[adv prt] of an old " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royal couple 's individual humanity , rather than their status , has made most impact ; Charles 's unflagging curiosity , reports of Diana shaking hands with a leper in Indonesia , her instinctive picking up of an old woman 's dropped walking-stick . |
| 2 | Limousines drew up to disgorge a wedding party ; women in elegant outfits topped with splendid hats were a fanfare for a bride who stepped out of an old white Daimler , tanned beneath her white silk . |
| 3 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 4 | He looked amazing , like Tarzan out of an old film , about to leap up into the tree-creeper . |
| 5 | Then with her needle she worked eyebrows , eyes and mouth , and made a dress out of an old dress that belonged to one of her girls . |
| 6 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 7 | They had then rolled off towards Pushkin with Myeloski eating the vobla out of an old copy of Izvestia which was unrolled on his lap . |
| 8 | Boyish , flaxen-haired , fresh-faced , with a spring in his step , he could have slipped out of an old singing/dancing Cliff Richard film . |
| 9 | And this is a child 's and bonnet to make out of an old felted woolly . |
| 10 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 11 | Football fever got to us and Brian fashioned a small ball out of an old pair of underpants and a defunct blindfold . |
| 12 | Flaubert 's housekeeper made Julio a coat out of an old pair of trousers . |
| 13 | Out of an old , half-moribund loyalty she repeated his words . |
| 14 | In the centre was the ironing-board made out of an old table covered with a blanket and a sheet . |
| 15 | ‘ It was like something out of an old Peter Lorre , Sidney Greenstreet film , ’ he remembers . |
| 16 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 17 | More than an hour later , Mrs Chamberlin opened the door to find all her children under the table eating tiger stew out of an old bowler hat doing duty as a cooking pot , save one , who was crouched on top of the table growling ferociously . |
| 18 | It includes every kind of artistic endeavour — from conventional watercolours to a pink hippopotamus made out of an old car . |