Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southampton Art Gallery has one of the principal collections of twentieth-century and contemporary British art outside London , together with a small Old Master collection and holdings in seventeenth-century Dutch painting and nineteenth-century French art . |
| 2 | Yeah it did , it looked just like a little old man . |
| 3 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 4 | I saw it happen once to a dear old woman who went around a group of people , gently offering her book , and everyone signed except one . |
| 5 | It was exchanged later for a black Old English sheepdog owned by some relatives of ours at Piercebridge . |
| 6 | As she looked at Millie rocking herself slightly like a little old woman getting a child to sleep , she though , If I were to tell her her mother has died , she would likely think it was the same way as her father had , whichever way that was , which was n't real dead . |
| 7 | Cowley realised that he had to tread very carefully with a wily old bird like Hatch . |
| 8 | I thought it would be of interest to members if I tried to illustrate how the diamorphic diagnosis can be made , even with a dusty old specimen in a cupboard somewhere . |
| 9 | Even with a big old bathroom . |
| 10 | They were here in a deserted old house in the middle of nowhere on a black and starless night in one of the more mysterious bits of Scotland , and there was a scrabbling , clawy sort of noise coming from the ceiling above him and this other drunk , stoned man . |
| 11 | ‘ There he was a-sitting there like a scaly old bull . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I flew there in a rickety old aeroplane with standing room only . |
| 13 | However well charted the world may be there is still adventure , danger and hardship for some travellers to endure : Christina Dodwell experienced ‘ cold terror ’ while crossing the rapids of the Laigap River in Papua New Guinea ; Dervla Murphy survived an attack by wolves and several rape attempts ; Rosie Atkins , travelling round the world with her husband and two children , was trapped overnight in a battered old coach by a landslide in Ladakh . |
| 14 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
| 15 | Instead of a doddering old bugger like who 's miserable ! |
| 16 | They were very attached to each other and I hoped that my mother could now look forward to a happy old age . |