Example sentences of "[v-ing] the old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children in an orphanage in the Romanian town of Sighisoara were becoming ill after sucking the old lead paint on the cots . |
| 2 | Eskimo 's Canoe Store has moved to a high street location in St David 's where accessories are selling well , allowing the old shop to be converted into an office and bedroom for Andy . |
| 3 | He certainly had no intention of allowing the old lore concerning herbs to die out . |
| 4 | It said that inherently bad foundations and faulty construction meant that the cost of maintaining the old building for any length of time ‘ must be necessarily large ’ , and even at the time of his examination the building was undergoing further repairs . |
| 5 | He stood , then walked across the room , touching the old man 's arm briefly , sympathetically . |
| 6 | The coloured transparent stones could all be shown off by using the old technique of rubbing and polishing . |
| 7 | Stravinsky ensures a happy yet solemn ending to The Firebird by using the old Easter hymn ‘ At the Gate ’ where the whole congregation rejoices at the renewal of life . |
| 8 | It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists . |
| 9 | The railway is fully signalled and operated in block sections using the old relay system through three aspect colour light signals . |
| 10 | This is simpler than using the old text menus . |
| 11 | " He wo n't be using the old way for long . " |
| 12 | When this routine has completed its operation , it returns to the interrupted program by using the old program counter contents stored in location zero . |
| 13 | Simply cross over Scarth Gap from Buttermere using the old packhorse route . |
| 14 | My route was from Red Hall to the Havelock pub using the old railway track , soon to be another noise and fume-filled racetrack , courtesy of Durham brains and Darlington apathy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the years immediately following the war , manufacturers could sell all the machines they wanted using the old point-to-point wiring and had no need to trouble themselves with anything better . |
| 17 | An example word supercilious , compiled from simulated data ( 244,140,625 complete candidate strings ) was tested using the old method of complete string look-up ( 7 hours and 48 minutes processing time ) , and the new letter by letter look-up ( 13 seconds processing time ) — these figures include the time taken to build the tree structure as well as searching for the candidate strings . |
| 18 | A test sentence from data from the recogniser ( both wizened men quickly judged four sharp vixens ) took 17 seconds to build and search the tree using the old method , whereas the new method took 13 seconds . |
| 19 | Set the bridge saddles to the approximate height and intonation position using the old bridge as a guide . |
| 20 | It 's like us down in the in England using the old county names some times . |
| 21 | And er one of the men that was helping the old man to do something , to repair the the these tools you know , and he he 'd gone to the stores to get something and leaning over the counter to get something er er to sort of talk as one goes on a on a counter lean he was leaning a on the counter , and he erm the the the storeman he was a tough little beggar , and he said , I 've got a I 've got a I 've got a toothache . |
| 22 | In December 1966 , police had to evict anti-war demonstrators from the Berkeley campus , and , as student leaders called for a campus strike , they started singing the old student favourite ‘ Solidarity Forever ’ . |
| 23 | Four voices , more or less unbroken , were singing the old Drifter 's classic ‘ Stand By Me ’ , and it was followed by ragged Turkish applause . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Too many women have been brain-washed for centuries in to accepting the old saying : 'A son 's a son till he gets him a wife , but a daughter 's a daughter all her life . ’ |
| 26 | Here an inner momentum brings us face to face with ourselves and we can choose between perpetuating the old pattern or learning from our experience . |
| 27 | The truth is , that the whole long history of religion is littered with evidence that it is this very failure continually to revise , supplement and , where necessary to ruthlessly reject the scriptures , that has brought about , in this late twentieth century , some of obvious that there can be no real hope of salvaging the old order . |
| 28 | But you 'll be seeing the old man , of course . |
| 29 | I 'm a bit apprehensive about seeing her again , but I 'm sure she 'll have fun seeing the old hag in her new colours . |
| 30 | More subtle perhaps are the two blue pegs , hanging the old rag out to dry , or the pusse pink ‘ SERVICE ’ . |