Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] the old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although the church is no longer standing the old graveyard is still there with tombstones which are still readable , on a site one and a quarter miles from the present church . |
| 4 | Still holding the old man 's shirtfront , Ellwood yanked him back to the couch and threw him full length . |
| 5 | These six streets formed almost a straight line , but from the medieval stone bridge , still having the old ford on the Fisherton side , the road curved to the Iron Bridge which crossed one of the branches of the River Avon as it flowed out from Water Lane . |
| 6 | This is really probing the old wound . |
| 7 | If you 're simply replacing the old cistern — and not putting in a new system alongside the old you will be without water for some considerable time while the job is done . |
| 8 | He 's even pinching the old boy 's . |
| 9 | FOLLOWING in father 's footsteps , but not quite matching the old man 's gait , is a fact of life in horses as well as humans . |
| 10 | Gerald said : ‘ I suppose somebody could have been in there doing the old man while I was trying to get in . |
| 11 | Gerald , pretending to a savoir faire he did not possess ; ‘ I suppose somebody could have been in there doing the old man while I was trying to get in … ’ |
| 12 | Then the letters came fairly regularly , but they were strange at first — sometimes almost assuming the old relationship , sometimes defensively impersonal , as if he were afraid — we both were — to take too much for granted . |
| 13 | 1947 saw her launched from the Kelvin yard and she is now the last sea going paddle steamer in the world , faithfully paddling the old route down the Clyde and out to the islands of the west when there are enough tourists to cram her nostalgic upper decks and saloons . |
| 14 | Markby hurriedly opened his hymn-book and burst into a stentorian ‘ Hark the Herald Angels Sing ’ , considerably disconcerting the old lady in front of him . |