Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shook his head and continued to stare at the old man , but there was pleading in his voice now . |
| 2 | It is hard sometimes to look at an old person sitting passively in a chair and imagine them running around , bringing up babies , managing an office , driving a lorry , getting into trouble with the law , being a pillar of the local community , fighting a war . |
| 3 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |
| 4 | ‘ It is n't the weather for sightseeing , but he might care to look at the old Adlon hotel . ’ |
| 5 | I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it . |
| 6 | Consolidation would be little help if one still had to look at the old repealed Acts in order to interpret the new one . |
| 7 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 8 | Long and fulfilling because Alan Millet offered the chance to bite at an old enemy whose presence pervaded the rooms of the terraced home in Hampton Wick . |
| 9 | However , the audience this year was below its normal pitch of receptiveness and Nobby and company might have found it easier to perform at the old Glasgow Empire … ‘ . |
| 10 | The British theatrical Establishment who thought he aspired to be their new idol would be puzzled over ‘ All I wanted to do was to live ’ — but they would have let it pass as a Welsh eccentricity ; ‘ to act at the Old Vic ’ would have drawn beams of approval . |