Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an upwards market this would benefit the landlord , who could never hope to achieve a full market rent pursuant to an interim rent application , but would disadvantage the tenant , who would presumably prefer the old rent to continue during negotiations , thereby acting as a negotiating factor . |
| 2 | His feet wearily repeat the old pattern , dragging him round the dance floor in a last slow spin . |
| 3 | With all that to wait for , rarely has the old stockmarket adage to ‘ sell in May and go away ’ been more apposite . |
| 4 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 5 | In the inch wars , Ryvita helps you win — so goes the old advert punch line , but which of the two main Graphical User Interfaces is likely to be the one to give you the best operating environment ? |
| 6 | The result confirmed Mr Yeltsin as the leading figure among radicals who want to speed up the process of reform , and who believe President Gorbachov is not moving fast enough to dismantle the old system . |
| 7 | This notion entirely replaces the old body — mind dichotomy that once dominated Western thought . |
| 8 | When Ariel gently lifted the old woman to move her to her own quarters up the path in the forest , Sycorax gave a huge cry , the folding of her body in Ariel 's arms shot fiery rivers of pain through her that for a while swallowed up all the others she suffered from her burns . |
| 9 | I only hope the old sea dog is telling the truth ! ) |
| 10 | Lyn did n't much like the old man who kept the shop . |
| 11 | Pausing just long enough to sweep the old man 's triumphant face with an antagonistic look , Beth turned from them both and went , head high , out of the room and into the hallway , where the late March sunshine found its way through the tall arched windows , and where the air seemed relatively fresh compared to the musty damp smell of the old man 's den . |
| 12 | She would have told him much more , all sorts of improper things , only to hear the old information newly proposed in new words . |
| 13 | Labour organisation and activism was clearly still in its early stages : notwithstanding this , dictator General Leguia , who took power in July 1919 , announced that he had done so ’ not only to liquidate the old state of affairs , but also to detain the advance of Communism which , because it is premature among us , would produce dreadful consequences ' ( Skidmore and Smith : 1984 , p. 206 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Because I need the work , Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , her eyes twinkling as she gently raised the old lady a little and placed an extra pillow at her back . |
| 15 | It 's unlikely that you will be able to make use of the existing mortise , so fill the old mortise properly , as this area may need to be used for fixing to . |
| 16 | At this time , too , he carefully examined and brilliantly settled the old quarrel concerning the metropolitan church of Britanny between Tours and Dol , which although it had been judged many times by his predecessors would never have been brought to a final settlement but for him . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd better take the old bastard back . ’ |
| 18 | So went the old rhyme . |
| 19 | The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done |
| 20 | I must have done , as not only did the Old Bill and the Ritas ( as in Meter Maid ) ignore me , but a real cabbie parked nearby came over to pass the time of day . |
| 21 | The bicycle was obviously shaking the old order to the roots , and with its customary irreverence the socialist Clarion ( 30 July 1898 ) — which had a large stake in the matter , because of the enormously popular Clarion Cycling Clubs — wondered ‘ how it is no one has written a cycling melodrama , with a hero and a heroine and a villain on wheels ’ . |
| 22 | to find out from her if it comes to it we can perhaps ask the old lady if she can set something up where |
| 23 | Besides retelling the old story in the words of Charles Perrault , the first fairy-tale writer of them all , this delightful book has chapters on Bakst and the Ballets Russes , and on James de Rothschild 's commission and his life and very happy marriage to Dollie Pinto . |
| 24 | Basically it was the songs and a sort of mime play with Jack , Lindsay and David leading into a set piece with Lindsay as the old woman feeding the birds , which is a wonderful one , where the bird grows and grows to a monstrous size and finally devours the old lady . |
| 25 | At this Margery panics , expecting the same fate for herself , and soon begs the old woman to try to find Wilekin and bring him to her . |
| 26 | At that stage Canterbury had just equalled the old defence record of 25 , set by Auckland in 1960–63 . |
| 27 | When the breach finally occurs the old course of the meander is left as a curved through valley , perhaps drained by minor tributary streams , while the remains of the spur form an isolated hill , often known as a meander core . |
| 28 | He soon regains the old knack — and before you can say angel-dust , he 's flying and sword-fighting like never before . |
| 29 | I can already feel the old excitement coming back . |
| 30 | they 've just rehashed the old plan , and just drawn a red line round the bit they want us to look at , erm , this bit know it 's a computer . |