Example sentences of "[prep] [art] old [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The badges of honour he sports on his veteran 's beret when he goes dining for the old soldiers ' vote gave his plea a sort of authority . |
| 2 | Moult had attended the School between 1928 and 1934 , and had maintained his connection thereafter through the Old Stopfordians ' Association . |
| 3 | The first representative of the College was the Beyer Professor of Mathematics there , Horace Lamb , an Old Boy and first President of the Old Boys ' Association . |
| 4 | This proved to be an unsatisfactory arrangement , and with the help of the Old Boys ' Association a four-acre field in Adswood was purchased . |
| 5 | Scholars ' president looks to famous ancestor The Rev. John Douglas will seek his inspiration from a famous ancestor when he returns to the Friends ' School at Great Ayton as president of the Old Scholars ' Association . |
| 6 | Being president of the Old Scholars ' Association was , he said , one of the great honours of his life , following , as it did , the equivalent presidency of another Quaker School , Polam Hall , Darlington , by his sister , Mrs Trixie Lyburn , in 1986/7 . |
| 7 | From the 1740s North Cave was the meeting place for Quakers in the area , and Quaker Cottage on Church Street was built in 1892 on the site of the old Friends ' meeting house ; the cottage garden once was their burial ground . |
| 8 | Born in Silvertown , within sound of the old boat-builders ' yards , he disliked silence . |
| 9 | While we are on this subject , it may be remarked that even social workers sometimes give credence to one or another of the old wives ' tales which surround pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 10 | Mr. J. C. Moult now became Vice-Chairman , and Mr. W.A. Kershaw was elected as one of the Old Stopfordians ' nominees on the Governing body . |
| 11 | A successful businessman , he had been on the Board since 1972 , and had been Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association between 1966 and 1970 , and President in 1972/3 . |
| 12 | He provided the link between the School and its past pupils , for he was the Membership Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association , no easy task , with members spread all over the world . |
| 13 | Bernard had been told this was a confusing mixture reminiscent of the old drapers ' shops — and would never work as the products would attract different customers . |
| 14 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 15 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 16 | It will be argued here , however , that this criticism has resulted in overlooking a number of the older works ' most important insights . |
| 17 | This was when most of the older breeds ' herdbooks and breed societies were established and in 1874 the Nederlands Rundvee Stamboek ( NRS ) national herdbook was formed , operating on a provincial basis and registering and describing all breeds and types without differentiating between them . |
| 18 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |
| 19 | Despite the older officers ' complaints , the level of job satisfaction — when they can set aside the paperwork and get out into the field — is high ( cf. |
| 20 | There was the usual pub smell of stale tobacco but the river Thames laps against the old smugglers ' inn and its odours mingle with the rest . |
| 21 | As I walked past my contemporary ‘ transgressors ’ , cloaked in the anonymity of the backpack , I felt strangely more at one with the old lags ' displaced condition than with the multi-hued raincoated and umbrella-ed Glaswegian families queuing to go aboard the Waverley paddle steamer for their day ‘ doon the watter ’ to Rothesay . |
| 22 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 23 | Richard Chambers , a fine caver who had helped me photograph the Yordas Cave main chamber , Jeff Clegg and Matt Kirby of the Earby Mines Research Group and myself left the road near Gunnerside Lodge and clanked our way up the old miners ' path along the west side of Gunnerside Gill one damp late September evening . |
| 24 | And er it was er we had to develop it from a poorhouse into an old folks ' home . |
| 25 | If anyone is interested in playing for an Old Peoples ' Class on Friday mornings , starting in September at Dulwich , please contact . |
| 26 | The visitors reduced the arrears with a try on twenty minutes scored by Colin Vynal and converted by Neil Smith , and right on the interval took the lead with another try , this time from skipper , Simon Grater erm again converted by Neil Smith following a mistake in the Old Boys ' defence . |
| 27 | Many a town centre was like the Square in Arnold Bennett 's description of ‘ Bursley ’ in The Old Wives ' Tale , i.e. a self-conscious commercial area which scorned the staple manufacture in the streets beyond as ‘ something wholesale , vulgar , and assuredly filthy ’ . |
| 28 | After making her name as a prisoner of war in Tenko ( in which she appeared with Renee Asherson ) , Stephanie has been busy with a second series of the TV comedy Waiting for God about a group of crumblies living in an old folks ' home . |
| 29 | Er I think she does a bit of part time I 'm not really sure what she does she comes and goes , she probably works in an old folks ' home or something , she has a uniform . |
| 30 | As one Afro-caribbean elder said in an old peoples ' club : ‘ It is not only the climate that is cold in England ’ ( Grant , 1988 ) . |