Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] an old " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm only ten years older than you , and I look like an old man . |
| 2 | I read in an old Practical Fishkeeping an article on setting up a South American general community , this set me thinking and I decided to set up a South American Catfish community with a view to keeping some of the more readily-available , but hard to breed catfish and to provide them with the optimum conditions and numbers to hopefully have some breeding success . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm only 22 but I feel like an old man sometimes when I see what these little kids are doin' , ’ says Superia , a three-year Lo Life veteran . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel like an old Marie biscuit that someone 's left under the sofa . ’ |
| 5 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 6 | So if you plug in an old Strat it will probably sound more like a Strat should sound . |
| 7 | Q Our heating bills are always astronomical in the winter and I 'm convinced it 's because we live in an old draughty house . |
| 8 | They belong to an old elite : the landowners and merchants whose wealth was confiscated by the former regime , which abolished all forms of private ownership . |