Example sentences of "[adj] old [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who 's that old tosser at the bar ? |
| 2 | Who 's that old tosser at the bar ? |
| 3 | Who 's that old tosser at the bar ? |
| 4 | Who 's that old tosser at the bar ? |
| 5 | COUNCILLORS are likely to consider whether the 11-year old girl at the centre of a Home Alone storm should be returned to her mother when she returns from her Spanish holiday , it emerged yesterday . |
| 6 | ‘ What nice shiny medals , ’ she said , spotting a hunchbacked old soldier at the Deeside Leisure Centre . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes of course , ’ said Taliesin , his eyes going also to the motionless figure , because it was certainly unthinkable that they should leave Fergus like this , in the middle of a dark old mansion at the heart of an ancient forest . |
| 8 | With a garrulous old man at the inn . |
| 9 | She 's a poor old lady at the moment . |
| 10 | I have a good old tuck-in at the school lunch and that keeps me going until the next morning . ’ |
| 11 | Wanting to remain a child becomes unfeasible even to the most stupid old beard at the age of about 35 ; they eventually give up and accept they were born to be schoolteachers . |
| 12 | In an interview with Ulan Bator radio on Jan. 19 , the MDU leader Sanjaasurengiyn Dzorig ( a 27-year old lecturer at the Mongolian State University ) claimed that the organization 's key objective was to " accelerate and deepen the processes of reconstruction and renewal " . |
| 13 | After the non-fictional Sportsman 's Sketches , Fathers and Children is Turgenev 's best book , and the best thing in it , apart perhaps from the bereaved old couple at the end , is the sensitive give-and-take marriage of its hero 's idealism to his scepticism , a questing , generous idealism and an undestroying scepticism . |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't got any teeth ’ , one old man at the back of the hall retorted . |
| 15 | ‘ Do I remember you ? ’ she responds to a bad old lad at the back . |