Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [art] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Philip dropped down in the old bracken . |
| 4 | Down in the old Arab quarter of Jaffa , the cosy streets of Roberts ' lithographs are all but gone . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well , there was talk about er getting the old hall down in the old street community centre , not the , the |
| 8 | We started off in the old days , just tuning the top string down to D. It 's funny , but we used to do that before we 'd tune the bottom ones down . |
| 9 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 10 | There is no way of standing them off in the old fashion . |
| 11 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 12 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 13 | The essence of it is summed up in the old proverb : " Give a man a fish and he is satisfied for a day : teach him how to fish and he will be satisfied for the rest of his life . " |
| 14 | Fig. 126 shows the pediment as it was set up in the old museum , an arrangement that is certainly wrong . |
| 15 | ‘ One gets caught up in the old social whirl . |
| 16 | Community mental health care does imply the closure of the large , asylum style psychiatric hospitals , not least because many of the resources for new services are tied up in the old institutions . |
| 17 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You say pick your anchors up in an old boat ? |
| 20 | At the foot of the steps , Murphy waited , bundled up in an old sheepskin . |
| 21 | Inside the field centre she 's set up in an old barn , 30 eight year-olds are being introduced to life on the farm . |
| 22 | Many Elves did return but others , such as those in Athel Loren , refused to abandon their adopted homeland and stayed on in the Old World . |
| 23 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |
| 24 | It 's not trotted out in the old history books as one of the conferences , or one of the congresses rather . |
| 25 | Some of his harshest condemnations were reserved for those who tried to evade the plain commands of God ( set out in the Old Testament law ) by means of merely human traditions , however venerable . |
| 26 | That 's how they carried it out in the old days , in every quarry . |
| 27 | Once rescued , Eric dried out in an old sweater , and was reassured by owner Stephanie Webb . |
| 28 | Fire broke out in an old , litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished . |
| 29 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 30 | Even now , a hard up local could be sure of a free pint just by telling Knocker he had watched him fight at Gloucester 's annual Barton Fair , back in the old days . |