Example sentences of "[adv prt] to an old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the edge of the wood , where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond , only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog 's mercury and oak-tree roots . |
| 2 | He had three sons : James , a weaver , who lived in a little cottage without a chimney at Newton ; Jacob , a tailor of Brandwood who died young ; and Thomas , a labourer , who set up home in ‘ a poore pitifull hutt , built up to an old oake ’ at the side of Divlin Lane . |
| 3 | They hark back to an older , more religious notion , where it 's not a question of wholeness of being , but of holes . |
| 4 | Horns go back to an older world where surrenders were not accepted , to the dead defiant Roland rather than the brave , polite , compromise-creating Sir Gawain , whose dinner is served to ‘ nwe nakryn noyse ’ — the sound of chivalric kettledrums . |
| 5 | It was like going back to an old friend , familiar and almost cosy . |
| 6 | So do you think you 're inventing your own tradition , which is a perfectly time honoured and respectable thing to do , or do you think you 're harking back to an old tradition or or what ? |
| 7 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 8 | By contrast , in the Devon village of Broadclyst , it is the middle-class estate of four-bedroomed detached dwellings that has been grafted on to an older core of smaller , less attractive houses . |
| 9 | I ran towards it and flopped on to an old bench . |
| 10 | The robin hopped on to an old climbing plant on the wall , and sang his most beautiful song . |
| 11 | If you 'd had all people come in and try to bring in new ideas on to an old system , I do n't think it would have worked . |
| 12 | Anybody who does n't know where Hall is I would suggest they tag themselves on to an old lag . |
| 13 | Similarly a London fireman 's widow sent her daughters round to an old lady after school . |