Example sentences of "[adv prt] in an old " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The floor was of black and red quarry tiles and there were racks on the walls for the guns but these , of course , had gone , Hilbert 's two shot-guns had gone , one buried in the Little Wood , the other in his bedroom at home in Edgware , zipped up in an old golf-bag under the bed . |
| 3 | You say pick your anchors up in an old boat ? |
| 4 | At the foot of the steps , Murphy waited , bundled up in an old sheepskin . |
| 5 | Inside the field centre she 's set up in an old barn , 30 eight year-olds are being introduced to life on the farm . |
| 6 | Once rescued , Eric dried out in an old sweater , and was reassured by owner Stephanie Webb . |
| 7 | Fire broke out in an old , litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished . |
| 8 | When his militiamen had stormed onto the Jiyeh coast road and killed the remaining Phalangist defenders there in 1985 , I found Walid leaning back in an old wooden chair in one of his palace reception rooms , swigging from a bottle of frozen Czech lager and lamenting the moral improprieties of war . |
| 9 | Those old Andy Hardy movies always seemed to have a scene where a bunch of American teenagers would be sitting around in an old barn or something wondering where to stage their amateur dramatics . |
| 10 | The assistant chaplain of Norwich prison , who drove around in an old Maestro , carefully invested cash inherited from his father 's shipping business . |
| 11 | veteran cars , who wants to , who wants to drive around in an old Ford Poplar of of twenty , twenty five , thirty years ago ? |
| 12 | ‘ The relief ! ’ cries Howard , as he goes about in an old pair of jeans , mending the roof and painting the window-frames . |