Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] an old " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am re-opening an old fireplace and need to install a fireback . |
| 2 | As I can not afford a new diesel engine I am considering an old slogger Perkins 4,236 . |
| 3 | ‘ Before the Firebird I was using an old Gibson ES-175 up until about 1971 , ’ details Sonny . |
| 4 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 5 | CONSIDER WINDOWS IF YOU ARE REPLACING AN OLD GARAGE DOOR |
| 6 | If you are replacing an old bathroom suite with a new one , and plan changes to the layout , which will require alterations to the water pipework , you will again need to meet Building Regulations ' requirements . |
| 7 | If you are restoring an old house , you will be interested in the Forgeries range of reproduction ironmongery . |
| 8 | It you 're reusing an old radiator , fix the old brackets to the wall at the new radiator position and rehang the radiator . |
| 9 | She was wearing an old woollen dressing-gown and smoking a cigarette . |
| 10 | She was wearing an old brown hat and a dress which was too small for her . |
| 11 | She was wearing an old dressing-gown , her hair was uncombed , her nose shiny . |
| 12 | ‘ We were watching an old John Wayne revolutionary war-type movie . ’ |
| 13 | I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's rented an old farmhouse right out in the middle of nowhere on the common , beyond your place and even more isolated , believe it or not . |
| 15 | He might think it best sometimes to pretend that he was enforcing an old and obsolete statute or a mischievous and silly precedent when he was really ignoring it . |
| 16 | He had his legs crossed , and he was smoking an old pipe , from which came a vile smell and great plumes of smoke as he puffed at it . |
| 17 | Although he was wearing an old check shirt and dirty cricket flannels that stopped above his ankles , Constance thought him the most elegantly handsome man she had ever seen . |
| 18 | Charles Harvey , on the other hand , was tall , six foot , and he was wearing an Old Carthusian tie . |