Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may involve clearing out the clogged-up holy well , weeding round the markstone so that it can be seen , or encouraging the old tree species and companion plants where a clump is threatened . |
| 2 | There must also , normally , be a procedure for making the new rule or amending an old one . |
| 3 | Whether you are designing a kitchen from scratch or updating an old one you must think in terms of priorities , define your most pressing needs , and start from there . |
| 4 | A myriad becks tumbled down from the hills into the valleys and dales below , cutting a gorge here or following the old meltwater channels there . |
| 5 | The doves gave up strutting and whitening the old ping-pong table and set off , flapping busily towards the purple hillside . |
| 6 | Then in the evening the fun continued inside the inn : drinking and Singing the Old Songs to the tune of the ‘ cordion ’ . |
| 7 | When we got to Nelly 's the fire was low , but while she was collecting newspapers I filled the kettle and using the old leather bellows stoked up the heat . |
| 8 | Stories were told of whole communities sitting down and wailing the old tune whilst waiting for the slave masters to arrive and incarcerate their bodies and souls . |
| 9 | Maybe just a little front page you know wh look at the big revisions for the sales department or something like that instead of just , when you get a new telephone directory , putting it in your folder and binning the old one , make certain people realise there 've been changes . |
| 10 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 11 | In the same year £20 was spent on improving ventilation , providing a shed and replacing the old wooden railings by iron railings and gates . |
| 12 | He was rapidly proved right ; Spain pledged herself in December to a Family Compact with France , forcing England , on 2 January 1762 , to declare war on her and reviving the old nightmare of a joint Franco-Spanish fleet sweeping up the Channel to land a papist army on English soil . |
| 13 | This entailed opening up new accounts for all the cardholders , sending out the new cards , and closing the old accounts . |
| 14 | Close the two lapels , and continuing the old traditional method , bind firmly but not too tightly with raffia — you can buy this as ‘ bass ’ from a sundries shop — that has been prepared previously into 18 inch ( 45cm ) lengths and well soaked to make it soft and pliable . |
| 15 | Given the date , it was then a question of working backwards and consulting an old diary ; and I found that during the period in question I was in India for Panorama . |
| 16 | But I can remember my father coming back from the death bed and saying the old man was babbling about a grandson . |
| 17 | One visiting history adviser looking at a display of old washing equipment got the infants to explain by picking up and examining an old flat iron , looking for the flex and asking " But how did they plug this in ? " |
| 18 | In spite of the pill he kept waking and hearing the old men around him coughing or mumbling in their sleep . |
| 19 | The first priority was to re-establish the team unity that had been allowed to dwindle , with the result that there had been much arguing and bickering The old inter-island rivalries that Worrell had eradicated had surfaced again , and he knew the team would accomplish little until these disappeared . |
| 20 | In the event , both athletes discovered their best form , running from the front with assurance and power and putting the old failures behind them . |
| 21 | Once in power , she immediately set about turning the clock back to 1529 by returning England to papal jurisdiction , restoring Catholic forms of worship , and reintroducing the old heresy laws . |
| 22 | There are so many paths and old miners ' tracks around this area of Swaledale that you could spend years walking them and exploring the old workings and still not cover them all . |
| 23 | Without government aid , argue the pro-regionalists , depressed areas disintegrate socially , with the young and the skilled moving away and leaving the old and the unskilled behind ; families and communities thus suffer socially . |
| 24 | This shows change by sign.posting the new route and leaving the old route intact . |
| 25 | The latter were forced to repair to the waiting area where they enviously sipped ginger beer while waiting their turn and watching the old horses pull the machines into the water , one after another . |
| 26 | It is therefore unsettling to find you pushing an ‘ energy policy ’ for the United States and following the old , oft-disproven notion that we are ‘ running out of oil ’ ( January 26th ) . |
| 27 | Sucker top growth is often called briar in the case of roses , after the name by which the wild rose was known , and following the old practice of using rooted briar stems dug out of hedgerows for budding and grafting — at one time this was one of the chief occupations of gypsies , who would ‘ hawk ’ them by the bundle around less reputable nurseries . |
| 28 | A new system will cost up to £2,500 to install ; and updating an old one , from £300 ( £1,000 plus if you replace the boiler as well ) . |
| 29 | Three months later she was still there , sleeping on the sofa , and hitting the old man with his own walking stick . |
| 30 | But replacing the old by the new is not the end of the matter . |