Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |
| 2 | He wandered towards the old harbour , now little more than a quiet backwater . |
| 3 | Dunne belonged to ‘ the military section of Britain 's old upper class ’ , as J. B. Priestley [ q.v. ] , who based Time and the Conways ( 1937 ) on his interpretation of Dunne 's theory , was to recall ; ‘ he looked and behaved like the old regular officer type crossed with a mathematician and an engineer . ’ |
| 4 | As he [ Mr Field ] was elected and then reselected under the old 1985 procedure and he accepted those victories with a certain amount of good grace , I would hope he would accept that procedure . |
| 5 | There will not be the same winding down that occurred with the old rating system . |
| 6 | Bill Pritchard , whom we left going ashore at the Old Mole with his demolition control party and Philip Walton 's demolition squad , protected by Tiger Watson 's men , moved into the Old Town in commando fashion : each party , indeed each man , when alone , moved towards the target without waiting for support . |
| 7 | The people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire . |
| 8 | We wandered round the old town of Appleby , taking in the Moot Hall , the Almshouses and castle with its birds and wildlife . |
| 9 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 10 | In the New Testament , God is likened to a father , a shepherd and the owner of a vineyard ( among other images , including some found in the Old Testament ) . |
| 11 | It is simply due to the fact that the diffused , little defined , fitfully manifested and sometimes sub-personal presence of God as Spirit which we found in the Old Testament , becomes clearly focused for the first time in Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 12 | ‘ A lot of the lead-based paints we used in the old days would n't be permitted today , ’ he pointed out . |
| 13 | That was how the words occurred in the old Latin poem . |
| 14 | This occurred in the old water authorities . |
| 15 | In 1939 , Dr Paul Kosok of Long Island University discovered the enigmatic straight tracks on the pampa near Nazca , Peru , and in 1978 the zoologist Tony Morrison reported on the old straight tracks to be found in the remote altiplano region of western Bolivia . |
| 16 | He also lived at Bridge of Weir , and on his way home through Paisley , late at night , he stopped on the old bridge . |
| 17 | Elisabeth stopped at the old peat barge , the single landmark on an otherwise featureless wilderness . |
| 18 | For your information , if not for your conversion , let me bring you another in the line of startling books which turn upside down all that we ever believed about the Old Testament . |
| 19 | When Anna was first told about it in Rome by that ass of a young man , when she learnt about the old truth , the long lie , she cried out it was a bolt from a clear sky shattering her life . |
| 20 | ‘ Right , ’ she said , as she dropped into the old chintz covered settee beside him , ‘ what are you going to do with all that lovely money ? ’ |
| 21 | Seaford , Hastings , Winchelsea and Rye suffered from the old Sussex enemy , the longshore drift that silted up their harbours relentlessly . |
| 22 | ‘ And God stays out of it , ’ McQuaid twisted round the old saw . |
| 23 | Albert Spanswick came from the old school of trade union leaders and I found him a more persuasive advocate for health service workers than Rodney Bickerstaffe . |
| 24 | They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them . |
| 25 | I suppose the ones that came from the old factory , you know were kept on and that |
| 26 | He was quite capable of building a locomotive as I have a working steam model threshing engine , on about the same scale , that also came from the old office . ’ |
| 27 | Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act . |
| 28 | But once at the School , in his own place and with his daily occupation , he began to think again of this dream woman , and added to the old notion of what she should be , which Diana had personified , was an idea of her as his rescuer , as someone who would save him and make him whole again . |
| 29 | Eventually we came to the Old Mill area where there were no railings at the waterside , making the mill pond quite a frightening place for small children . |
| 30 | But when we came to the Old Town , the Marshal and Sapt moved nearer to my horse , and I could see that they were afraid for me . |