Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is all that remains of a noble old building once owned by the Bishops of Rochester and known locally as the Old Palace . |
| 2 | You 're on about the old King George ! |
| 3 | Most letters asked for autographs or photographs , some complained of or praised a person interviewed or view expressed , and there was always a sprinkling of old dears short of correspondents who rambled on about the old days . |
| 4 | They say there 's too many children with problems round here to worry much about the old well , they 'd damn well have to worry if I was n't here doing all the work would n't they ? |
| 5 | In this case we were lucky and the route had been re-equipped with new bolts placed in between the old bolts . |
| 6 | Sam 's boat was one of the last to sail in between the old forts , and Harry , who was standing at the end of the stone quay in order to crow over the birth of his son and demand payment of his winnings , saw with a twinge of jealousy that Gristy 's ketch was well down in the water . |
| 7 | In January of 1825 Barratt had decided upon an ambitious and costly project ; a deep adit level to be driven as a cross-cut , some 230 yds. downstream from Taylor 's Level into the eastern bank of Red Dell Beck and in a northerly direction , to come in below the old workings and to explore the vein , especially below that section expected to be opened up by Taylor 's . |
| 8 | Then with a little grin , so much like the old devil-may-care Hilary , she proceeded to demonstrate all her new-found skills , her hands and tongue touching every magnificent inch of him until he pleaded for her to stop . |
| 9 | By that time DeFries had an office in Park Avenue which was very much like the old Gem offices in London . |
| 10 | The Dwarfs advanced in battle formation fully expecting an attack from the steep mountain slopes which towered ominously above the old Dwarf road . |
| 11 | Cream , maybe … magnolia ; go better with the old beams . |
| 12 | From the top you can go down into the old crater via a scree slope which , viewed from the other side , looks impossibly steep ( ’ I 'm never going down there ! ’ ) but is actually quite easy ( the descent is 600ft . ) . |
| 13 | Neighbours were concerned because a daughter with a psychiatric history , marital difficulties and debts , had moved in with the old couple . |
| 14 | With each successive moult the current crop of fungal parasites is shed along with the old exoskeleton . |
| 15 | This contract should be reconsidered as the elderly person 's progress or ‘ career ’ in the home is reviewed on a regular quarterly or half yearly basis , with the same social worker still responsible , and the family present or represented , along with the old person . |
| 16 | The Railway Inn has closed , along with the old chemist ‘ s shop . |
| 17 | And then we used to and they used to come along with the old cart and start leading . |
| 18 | Sugar beeting in those days , you used to stick the old plough in , plough them up and then we had to go along knocking them , to knock all the soil off , then chop the tops off , put them in heaps , go along with the old horse and cart . |
| 19 | The school closed in 1987 and it is this part , together with the old playground and grassed area , which the RIBA have purchased and converted into offices . |
| 20 | Escheat was swept away , together with the old law of intestate succession , by the new scheme introduced by the Administration of Estates Act 1925 . |
| 21 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 22 | It was only round the old folk ! |
| 23 | She would have smelt it first — long before the old girl downstairs : she did n't smell it till we went in to get her . ’ |
| 24 | Even in 1832 , slavery was abolished only within the old empire . |
| 25 | Apparently in the old days it was the place where tenant farmers paid their rent to the estate . |
| 26 | Foundries and mines , factories and tenements were spreading outwards from the old heart of the town , and an ever-present pall of smoke and soot hung in the air over the river . |
| 27 | The bosses looked bad enough in the old days ; but now , they 're looking good . |
| 28 | He 'd been told that often enough in the old days . |
| 29 | Either a spark had come down from the old fellow 's hole up there or him with hobnail boots had trod on er black powder and set it off and his hole went out underneath his feet . |
| 30 | ‘ A number of local residents commented that there was already a disproportionate ratio of pigs to people in the locality and although proposals to extend the operation would have led to some improvement , in that a new farrowing house would have been built to bring the pigs in from the old farm buildings , in fact the larger pig population would increase the scope for offensive odours to permeate the village . ’ |