Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on . |
| 2 | Somehow Mr Lee has to carry the old guard with him , not least because the mainlanders dominate the legislature as well as the National Assembly . |
| 3 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
| 4 | ‘ Here everyone has forgotten the old courtesies . |
| 5 | As soon as the rain stopped they rushed to the old roofleaf beds and tried to find the old roots . |
| 6 | Jill , charged to find the oldest building in town , located one of the few pre-earthquake buildings in downtown Jackson Square , part of the financial district . |
| 7 | ‘ The whole event was organised to replace the old family day tournaments and was a runaway success . |
| 8 | The car rumbled about him … even more restful than the noise of train wheels in the old days ; he tried to remember the old days … |
| 9 | This decade has seen the old bogey of progressive rock gradually replaced by progressive pop : the site for left-liberal well-meaning and pensiveness has shifted from concept albums and pomp rock , to the three-minute song and pop soul . |
| 10 | Labour , on return to power , decided to press on with the development of a new family allowance scheme , called ‘ child benefit ’ , designed to replace the older allowance , extended it to the first child in each family , and offset it against the abolition of tax allowances . |
| 11 | During 1990 the Commissioners also commenced an extensive warehousing scheme designed to replace the old quayside transit sheds and cater for changes in port users ' storage needs dictated by the new trends in cargo handling , particularly by the containerised mode . |
| 12 | Here the old belief that Nature tended to develop inevitably towards a predictable goal resurfaced in one of the newest branches of science , which had been designed to replace the old approach to natural history . |
| 13 | 4 ) I want to replace the old RCA valves in my Roland Bolt 30 . |
| 14 | Among other effects this has freed the old Gotthard road between Fluelen and the Gotthard Pass from most through traffic ( as , indeed , it also freed the southern section of that road beyond the pass into the Ticino ) . |
| 15 | The Colonel , trained in the proper management of war , diagnosed the General 's crude enthusiasm as excitement and gently tried to calm the old man by explaining that the sensible course was to wait until the artillery reached the town , and only then to mount an attack on the infantry who guarded the barricaded bridge . |
| 16 | The group that has used the old Cooking Centre has had to vacate the premises but so far nothing has happened . |
| 17 | The Board , which is to carry out the logging operation , has recommended felling the older trees as their younger counterparts are more resistant to air pollution . |
| 18 | Peter Hennessy has called the old G and G ‘ the lost tribe of British public life ’ . |
| 19 | The enactment of rule 3(7) ( as interpreted in the cases ) has rendered the old rules concerning standing to apply for a prerogative order more or less defunct . |
| 20 | The regime of course wants to keep the old order the A N C and freedom-loving people want a new order and a quick change but how do you mo move to that situation when you also have the right wing and the security forces and elsewhere not wanting change ? |
| 21 | Whatever he drew exhibited the old traits and gestures for which he had been criticised and condemned , but preferred not to correct : their so-called clumsiness , for instance . |
| 22 | The butter booths and the fire station have been removed but the local branch of the Heritage Society has restored the old town lock-up , known as the penny cells . |
| 23 | So if he starts coming the old soldier she can bung him out . |
| 24 | Oh he adores her , oh yes he wants her back , and I said , she said , I , you see , I know him , I said there 's a lot to be said for a chap that you know inside , know his ways and know how to cope with them , but I said never ever put yourself at his mercy , I 'm marrying him , and the house will be hers , you see , when there properly divorced it 'll be in her name so if he starts coming the old soldier , she can bung him out . |
| 25 | Ever-enterprising chairman Reg Burr , sensing the chance to make a few bob out of the wave of sentimentality which has greeted the old stadium 's demise , contacted local auctioneers , who will be putting some Den memorabilia under the hammer next Wednesday . |
| 26 | Well , at those prices I 'm sure none of us would have wished to accompany the old snob . |
| 27 | Schyns has re-invented the old idea of a wheel with unbalanced spokes . |
| 28 | He knelt to check the old man 's pulse only to discover that the President was uncaring rather than unconscious . |
| 29 | But his mother went to the police and tried to have the old custody order enforced . |
| 30 | On 3 October , Sergeant Fowler went to Wahagnies to try to locate the old band instruments left behind in 1940 . |