Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the older [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dannii was the famous sister but Hardy yet again decided to go for the older girl . |
| 2 | ‘ He goes for the older woman ! ’ |
| 3 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
| 4 | Like did er er people begin to be asked to do different jobs whereas you described in the older days , you were very much sort of , pinned to one machine if you like ? |
| 5 | Alex , her brother , was big enough to be included in the older children 's activities and without him she had felt unprotected . |
| 6 | The northern industrial regions , in contrast , were dominated by the older sectors which had been the basis of earlier expansion . |
| 7 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 8 | I mean I , you know some people actually erm quite like looking after the older people , where |
| 9 | Close by squatted a very young Tominah whom we had often seen behind the older priests but had never talked to . |
| 10 | As I began to serve more regularly I became more accepted amongst the older stalwarts of the service , my naval experience and general seamanship picked up on fishing craft and yachts standing me in good stead . |
| 11 | However , people have often decided against the older churches because of past experiences which have led them to conclude : ‘ The church is full of hypocrites ! ’ |
| 12 | People living in new housing , whether estates , flats or garden cities , were more satisfied with their houses and neighbourhoods than were those living in the older areas , although there was more than a hint at the loss of street-corner sociability . |
| 13 | Most had obtained that experience by operating in the older parts of the Nottinghamshire field further east , where the workforce was relatively quiescent , as illustrated for Hucknall ( D. Gilbert , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | You see it 's really what happens to the older folk like me . |
| 15 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |
| 16 | Predictably , the ‘ night of fun ’ presented by the British Music Hall Company to open the Festival of Comedy generally appealed to the older age group . |
| 17 | The support software , together with the graphical front ends will appear on the older systems within the next six months , the company says . |
| 18 | The support software , together with the graphical front ends will appear on the older systems within the next six months , the company says . |
| 19 | Another significant contact is developing between the Historical Group and the local primary schools ; the young workers are being invited into the schools to talk to the older primary children about the materials they have collected . |
| 20 | Then , prodded by the older men in their topsy-turvy costumes as the quick spirits of sap and growth , they gradually unbent and felt the thirst for blood sing again in their veins . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're beginning to sound like the older generation . ’ |
| 22 | Their tusks were gnarled and they differed from the older Daurog in one remarkable and savage aspect : ridges of long , black spikes grew from the fronts of their bodies ; the central , vertical line of thorns ran down on to the twisting , restless sex organs that hung from their rotund bellies . |
| 23 | The icy fear which showed in the older man 's eyes cut through Vologsky 's mild concern like a knife , chilling him to the bone . |
| 24 | The new charger can be used on the older style of batteries as well as the newer 9100 red 9.6 volt batteries . |
| 25 | " … over backwards to accommodate you , but it really does look , I 'm afraid , as though this incident with the canal and the cat has to be just about the last straw , ah Steve , I understand from Mr Ashton here — " Smith nodded at the older man , who pursed his lips and nodded back , " — that Mr ah … |
| 26 | The house scene is dead , we 're told by the older club cognoscenti ; in fact ‘ before you could say Happy Flowered Roses , it was all over ’ ( NME ) . |
| 27 | His assumption of leadership was made possible by the indifference shown by the older members of the family towards any idea of a re-establishment of the dynasty . |
| 28 | Trading Standards Officers in Gloucestershire have already warned they 'll prosecute second-hand dealers who sell furniture filled with the older type foam . |
| 29 | Some of the holidays that cater for the younger element may still be slanted towards pairing people off , but those that cater for the older age groups are not . |
| 30 | Compared with the older production system , this new process , in which workers owned no machinery but were paid wages , was able to produce more and at a cheaper price . |