Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | In which parts of the coalfield are most of the old shallow pits which have been closed ? |
| 2 | You 're on about the old King George ! |
| 3 | Said they 're not like the old ones that go like as though they 're welded |
| 4 | And so we 're back to the old problem . ’ |
| 5 | We 've , I do n't know if everyone 's worked the same system , but we 're back on the old appointment system . |
| 6 | That would be just like the old days . |
| 7 | AS Big Ben bings its last bong at midnight tonight it will be out with the old ITV and in with the new . |
| 8 | Settlements were lower last year , but many bosses are convinced that , despite the government 's call for single-digit increases , the high inflation rate means that wage negotiations this spring will be back to the old pattern . |
| 9 | Such schools might , gradually , become selective , and indeed might be very like the old direct grant schools , abolished by the Labour Government in 1966 . |
| 10 | Could n't possibly have been there in the old days . |
| 11 | What differences in street plans and buildings are there between the old city on the crag and tail and the area which was new in 1800 ? |
| 12 | The former detectives were not at the Old Bailey today , proceedings against them are over . |
| 13 | they were just like the old fashioned kind and er we 've never been to Harrendle since and whenever I get to Harrendle I 'd get some more sausages . |
| 14 | They did n't pay much , but they were more like the old music halls than anything left in the South . |
| 15 | BR and ASLEF were still at the old game and each other 's throats , with rebel train drivers complicating the whole thing . |
| 16 | He would come exuberantly into the office after ops with his crew tagging along behind him , to tell us that our weather forecast had been spot on , it had all been a piece of cake , bombs went down — Wham ! — right on the target , no trouble at all , good show ! , and here they were back on the old tarmac , cheating death again , etc . |
| 17 | While all this was going on agents of Naggaroth were abroad throughout the Old World stirring up trouble . |
| 18 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 19 | Mr Major said the community charge , as he preferred to call it , had been replaced with a new property-based system which contained improvements that were never in the old rating system . |
| 20 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 21 | The village of Uppercross in Persuasion ( 1818 ) , for example , ‘ had been completely in the old English style ’ , two houses only showing themselves to be superior to the dwellings of yeomen and labourers : the squire 's mansion with its high walls and great gates , and ‘ the compact , tight parsonage , enclosed in its own neat garden ’ . |
| 22 | It 's right on the old T-junction between Jamaica Street and Tobago Road . ’ |
| 23 | He has often argued that one of Microsoft 's key competitive advantages is precisely that his firm is not like the old computer giants , offering customers everything from chips and computers to software and service contracts . |
| 24 | It 's not like the old days . ’ |
| 25 | It 's not like the old days when people lived in villages and knew whose great-great-grandad was a horse thief or whatever . |
| 26 | But er like I say it 's not like the old concerts . |
| 27 | It involves constant disturbances of equilibrium ( disappearance of products in consumption and deterioration ) and a constant re-establishment of equilibrium ( the products reappear ) ; but this re-establishment is always on the old basis . |
| 28 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 29 | and I mean let's face it if he is still with the old grandmother , it 's , that 's a different world as well in n it ? |
| 30 | There is history and culture there , and a trip worth making is out to the old Portuguese colony of Macau , far less prosperous than Hong Kong , probably far more like the real China . |