Example sentences of "[vb past] the old [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He met the old T'ang 's eyes , a look of understanding passing between them that escaped the young Prince 's notice . |
| 2 | The Minworth subsidiary , Strontian Minerals Ltd , reopened the old Strontian lead mine in western Scotland to extract baryte from open pit and underground workings . |
| 3 | Tshwete was a supporter of rugby unification and he got the old South African Rugby Football Board and the South African Rugby Union together at the conference table ’ , said French . |
| 4 | ‘ But yer can 'it 'em , ’ argued the Old Stager . |
| 5 | No one of the reasons I was ringing er I have actually er tried the old Beauj' this year . |
| 6 | He won the Open in 1887 and 1889 and designed the old Sunningdale course ( opened in 1901 ) and the Huntercombe course , in which he was a major shareholder . |
| 7 | We overtook the old Ford and the 5 a little later . |
| 8 | A MURDER suspect used the Old Bailey 's £1 million high-tech security system to help him escape . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , yer right , ’ exclaimed the Old Stager , putting the crust of his sandwich on the table . |
| 10 | The five-year-olds at St John 's Highbury Vale visited the old Finsbury Funpark . |
| 11 | And yesterday their lawyer told the Old Bailey : ‘ It brought home to them the serious nature of what they had done . ’ |
| 12 | Signe drove the old VW carefully — she was a good driver — and insisted upon taking me the prettiest way to Inkeroinen , which meant through the little side roads around Kouvola . |
| 13 | With that she slammed the old Austin into gear , then almost as quickly put it back into neutral . |
| 14 | ‘ THERE ‘ e goes again ! ’ muttered the Old Stager , as the Computer Programmer was caught in the slips for 32 in our last match of the season . |
| 15 | ‘ Nah ! ’ exploded the Old Stager , who never failed to rise to the Van Boy 's bait . |
| 16 | They reiterated the old CEB faith in the imperatives of central technical control , and brushed aside potential gains from decentralisation , but themselves maintained a very weak financial control over the divisions . |
| 17 | ‘ Doggedness and stickability , ’ replied the Old Stager . |
| 18 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 19 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 20 | She joined the Old Vic Company ( which later was to become the Sadler 's Wells Opera ) in the 1923-4 season as a member of the chorus . |
| 21 | Valley Parade 's answer to the dream team never linked up during their playing days — Pearson had moved on from Manchester United to West Ham before Stapleton , Ireland 's most capped player , joined the Old Trafford side in the early eighties . |
| 22 | ‘ What killed the old Ireland was not only television , but the motor car , ’ Sean proceeded , as if reading my mind . |
| 23 | ‘ No bad luck abaht it , ’ observed the Old Stager tartly . |
| 24 | SALLY GUNNELL pulled the old Muhammad Ali trick last night to absolutely pulverise some of the world 's finest women runners . |
| 25 | SALLY GUNNELL pulled the old Muhammad Ali trick last night to absolutely pulverise some of the world 's finest women runners . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's not good enough , ’ persisted the Old Stager hotly . |
| 27 | ‘ Point three six , ’ repeated the Old Stager , settling back into his deckchair in satisfaction . |
| 28 | This was principally because it contained the old Baghdad-Tehran highway . |
| 29 | However , Mrs Knelle seemed to be driving from house to house to exchange news , and I thought the old Ireland persisted around Lough Corrib as well as might be expected , or better . |
| 30 | Their fellow liberal Unitarian , S.A. Steinthal , however , thought the old Broad Street leadership , ‘ these orthodox gentlemen ’ , were as intolerant as ever to reformers of his persuasion ‘ but to others they are all light ’ . |