Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DEFENDANT on trial for a horrifying knife murder was on the run last night after walking out of the Old Bailey . |
| 2 | Further , it will document the experience of families as they moved out of the old tenements , often slums , into their new houses in the new schemes . |
| 3 | Since you moved out of the old house we ca n't stay with you and Jane hates hotels . |
| 4 | I went to the top of Ludgate Hill and watched exhausted men being carried out of the Old Bailey , then down side streets to where the steeple of St Bride 's church was tottering and the bells had gone crashing down minutes previously . |
| 5 | The royal couple 's individual humanity , rather than their status , has made most impact ; Charles 's unflagging curiosity , reports of Diana shaking hands with a leper in Indonesia , her instinctive picking up of an old woman 's dropped walking-stick . |
| 6 | This August Rivermead staff and patients moved out of the old Victorian wards into new facilities . |
| 7 | The garage was part of the stable block and had been made out of the old coach house . |
| 8 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 9 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 10 | In the centre was the ironing-board made out of an old table covered with a blanket and a sheet . |
| 11 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 12 | It includes every kind of artistic endeavour — from conventional watercolours to a pink hippopotamus made out of an old car . |
| 13 | A soldier came out of the old jailhouse , rifle held lightly in one hand , barrel pointed down . |
| 14 | Matthew and Sara and the children with them came out of the old woods into the new plantation , where rows of conifers , dark green , were interplanted with small spindly brighter green beeches . |
| 15 | Cos that came out of the old one |
| 16 | Yesterday saw the first meeting of North Essex Health Authority , which replaces the consortium made up of the old north east , mid and west Essex district health authorities . |
| 17 | Beaming , the love-struck man walked out of the Old Bailey dock into the arms of his fiance . |
| 18 | Besides providing homes for the newcomers to the city , these estates have been occupied by people moving out of the old city centre and out of some of the older terraced houses . |
| 19 | When the train reached its destination and Katherine stepped out of the old station , it was already dark and bitterly cold . |
| 20 | Cleared of rape , Austin Donnellan stepped out of the Old Bailey and stepped into an angry scum of photographers and reporters fighting to get close to him . |
| 21 | Limousines drew up to disgorge a wedding party ; women in elegant outfits topped with splendid hats were a fanfare for a bride who stepped out of an old white Daimler , tanned beneath her white silk . |
| 22 | 2.4 The detailed timescale involved in the transition to the new system and in the phasing out of the old are summarised in narrative and diagrammatic form in Annexes to this paper . |
| 23 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 24 | Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ . |
| 25 | SINCE he limped out of the Old Firm game on 2 January , Tony Mowbray has missed all of Celtic 's last 13 matches . |
| 26 | A great ball of wind puffed out of the old chimney-place , rocking the portrait of Jas . |
| 27 | An Independent Television Authority would regulate them , run by a group of people pulled out of the old drawer marked ‘ gentlemen amateurs ’ . |
| 28 | A message needs to be sent loud and clear to the Church of England Synod that a complete change in thinking is vital if the new wine is not to burst out of the old wineskins and be lost . |
| 29 | Boyish , flaxen-haired , fresh-faced , with a spring in his step , he could have slipped out of an old singing/dancing Cliff Richard film . |
| 30 | Not a taking up of the old ways , but she had anticipated that for at least part of the evening they would move from professional matters to personal . |