Example sentences of "[verb] at an old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court heard one of the burglaries occurred at an old people 's home . |
| 2 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 3 | ‘ Sweetie , you are looking at an old moose who just ca n't figure out where he took the wrong trail and he 'll never get back up that hill again . |
| 4 | She was forty-six : her face was unlined , her hair still golden without grey in it , her body trim , very trim , yet he seemed to be looking at an old woman . |
| 5 | It is hard sometimes to look at an old person sitting passively in a chair and imagine them running around , bringing up babies , managing an office , driving a lorry , getting into trouble with the law , being a pillar of the local community , fighting a war . |
| 6 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |
| 7 | Night fell , and after walking a few more miles down country roads , they finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river . |
| 8 | The path eventually emerges at an old fishing hut on the shore of Loch Avich . |
| 9 | Marie said nothing but she had worked at an old people 's home as part of her Community Care Course . |
| 10 | Long and fulfilling because Alan Millet offered the chance to bite at an old enemy whose presence pervaded the rooms of the terraced home in Hampton Wick . |
| 11 | As with people , language can be extremely difficult to learn at an older age . |
| 12 | He has been stonewalling throughout the whole month since Lamb told the world , through the Daily Mirror , how the Pakistanis scuff and scrape and scoop at an old ball until it swings as though it was factory fresh . |