Example sentences of "[vb past] the old man " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I sha n't come back until I remember what the great Daybog said , " This news made the old man very sad , for he loved Yanek the best of his three grandsons . |
| 2 | From here you can see the summit of lofty Braeriach to the south-west , iced with a mantle of snow for the majority of the year , and you start to understand what made the old men in shirt sleeves point . |
| 3 | She drew in a great sharp breath which shook her shoulders , then wiped the old man 's chin with a cloth . |
| 4 | I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ . |
| 5 | I asked the old man why |
| 6 | ‘ What do you mean ? ’ asked the old man , curious in spite of himself . |
| 7 | I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’ |
| 8 | I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car . |
| 9 | He asked the old man if he 'd ever worked in the sandpaper factory and added that he 'd probably be going to work there himself when he 'd finished at the Comprehensive . |
| 10 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 11 | ‘ What are they doing now ? ’ asked the old man . |
| 12 | He got the old man to come , old the same old bugger . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you have any objection to my presence here ? ’ countered the old man . |
| 14 | Somehow that triggered the Doctor , and he interrupted the old man . |
| 15 | Every night she and Ranald helped the old man move four hives up the four miles of rough track to the heather moor . |
| 16 | He helped the old man climb into the saddle . |
| 17 | Promised the old man . |
| 18 | I caught the old man 's hand , and cried , ‘ Now is the time ! |
| 19 | ‘ Yep , makes me wish I was thirty years younger , ’ quipped the old man . |
| 20 | . ’ The Doctor grasped the old man 's sleeve . |
| 21 | ‘ What the hell are you staring at me like that for , you ungrateful bugger ? ’ shouted the old man , thrusting his powerful frame forward in a threatening gesture . |
| 22 | Obviously Modigliani also found the old man 's lasciviousness offensive . |
| 23 | With skill borne of long practice he let the old man talk but guided his talk in the way he wanted it to go , then he started to ask questions . |
| 24 | Be all right , ’ added the old man . |
| 25 | The crackle of the flames woke the old man , and he tried to open his door . |
| 26 | Freud told the old Man that had he not become an analyst , he would have been an economist , which conjures up all sorts of hilarious possibilities . |
| 27 | Yes , I told the old man at the gate — a sure method of propagating the lie — I was off to Hydra for the week-end . |
| 28 | They buried the old man . |
| 29 | At Tetsu continued on his outward journey , he hardly noticed the old men toiling along the fairways , stooping and bobbling , rather like Japanese reaping a rice paddy . |
| 30 | These goblins hated the old man and the boys , because they tended the sacred fire at the sun 's shrine and kept it burning even at night , so that there was always a light in the forest . |