Example sentences of "[subord] the old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke . |
| 2 | Where the old badger is coming from Bill Morrison 's motto in life is ‘ never volunteer , never refuse ’ , a policy which has landed him in some of the hottest seats in the profession , as he tells Julia Irvine |
| 3 | After a short time the Duke of Grafton sold them the Rope Walk , a building where the old village craft had been carried out and where Ted Smith 's coach garage is now , and so they moved . |
| 4 | At Atlanta , Georgia , where the old station had played such a key role in the Civil War , three companies , the Southern , Seaboard , and Atlanta and West Point , opened a large Spanish baroque Union station in 1905 . |
| 5 | He was shown into Mr Brownlow 's study , where the old gentleman and his friend Mr Grimwig were sitting . |
| 6 | There was intense poverty in it , especially during some periods , and there were the tensions that were inevitable where the old system of dependence on master or squire had retained its force long after it had lost its relevance and many of its benefits . |
| 7 | The hotel stands right in the middle of the village , where the old part of the building has been the centre of village life for hundreds of years . |
| 8 | Where the old lady lived what was the house called ? |
| 9 | Where the old lady lived where what was the house called ? |
| 10 | ‘ Let's see if we can find where the old witch lives . ’ |
| 11 | Passing behind Uncle Philip 's broad back with a leaning tower of dishes in his hand , he performed a swift , small , derisive dance where the old man could not see . |
| 12 | Viking influence is deep-seated , especially in naming , where the old Norse method of patronymics is used . |
| 13 | To continue , take Via dei Pelligrini , the Pilgrim 's Road , or , better still , continue along Corso di Porta Romana to Piazzale Medaglie d'Ora where the old arch of the Porta Romana itself stands . |
| 14 | It is a setting where the old boy network may prove more potent than talent or single-minded devotion to work . |
| 15 | The road descends to valley level in lovely birch woods and reaches a junction where the old road for Tomdoun and Kinlochhourn turns off . |
| 16 | Even in 1939 there could still be found peasant holdings in eastern Europe where the old pattern of division of open fields into scattered strips survived , and it was commoner still in 1880 . |
| 17 | Is n't that exactly where the old shrine used to be , in those woods ? |
| 18 | He met the island 's emissaries under the huge saman tree where the old woman had lived in her treehouse , for Kit had established his command from this forest clearing ; he sensed he was usurping the mana of the great tree , and it invigorated him . |
| 19 | A Convention , similar to that in England , which met in Edinburgh on 14 March 1689 , eventually decided to offer William the throne , though many Scots , especially the chieftains in the Highlands where the old religion remained strong , still regarded James II as their king , and others , not necessarily Catholic , saw in the dispossessed Stuarts the best hope of regaining Scotland 's lost independence . |
| 20 | Where the old regime 's power survived intact — eg , in the parliament — that power has been used to the country 's detriment . |
| 21 | where the old Community Charge jobs are the same in content/numbers , or nearly the same , as the new Council Tax jobs , the staff in these ‘ matched ’ posts will simply transfer to the new jobs |
| 22 | Lancaster , Preston , where the Old Pretender 's advance had foundered , and which his son reached on 26 November , and Wigan all fell at the mere approach of the all-conquering young prince . |
| 23 | Her opening words , which echo a pair of lines in Chaucer 's first fabliau in the sequence of the Canterbury Tales , the Miller 's Tale ( I : 3768 – 9 ) , invite a dialogue charged with sexual connotations , not only in the obvious case of " " ryse " " , but also in the detectable reference to a conventional love-sickness : The monk 's answer immediately confirms the sexual topic of the dialogue , and dispenses with any euphemistic disguises : This rapid movement to a contextually surprising level of familiarity on the topic of sexual intimacy is paralleled in the French fabliau Auburee , where the old bawd , Auburee , in procuring a young wife for a besotted admirer , visits the wife and moves smartly into the bedroom , declaring : ( " I should certainly like to see your bed : then I should know for certain if you lie in the same splendour as the first wife did . " ) |
| 24 | as if to replenish it , just where the old fellow |
| 25 | A straight channel was cut under the new bridge for the river to run in and it joined the original channel near the site of the old boathouse , the river 's original course having been near where the old Post Office used to stand . |
| 26 | This new index will continue to provide information on the relative movement in the average value of sterling , but it needs to be noted that the absolute value of the index is higher than the old index . |
| 27 | The result was that after two years out of racing , Niki asked Ron Dennis to give him a private test — mainly to assure himself that he had not lost his skill and that he could face the new world of FI wing cars , quicker and much more road-adhering than the old generation . |
| 28 | But to make political sense out of doubt and qualification demands a higher quality of debate , analysis and representation than the old conviction politics . |
| 29 | The increased headway was essential to the concept of smaller 48-seat cars , which were quicker loading than the old Tramroad Company cars they replaced . |
| 30 | This does not sound much more liberal than the old idea of binding rules . |