Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] the old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the country 's new Constitution introduced in April 1992 , a single President replaced the old Council of State which had served as a collective presidency . |
| 2 | The sun caught the old mullion windows on the eastern side and against the grey stone walls there was a riot of colour : late flowering fuchsias , michaelmas daisies . |
| 3 | As the dark days of winter engulfed the Old World the Chaos armies struck . |
| 4 | The County Council extended the old Railway School in 1906 and built a new Boys School in Bounty Street in 1913 , this being extended in January 1973 . |
| 5 | A crack of laughter left the old man 's lips . |
| 6 | Legend has it that Oliver Cromwell on his way to lay siege to Middleton Hall during the Civil War found the old packhorse bridge too narrow for his cannons and wagons and so had the bridge widened . |
| 7 | The scene the count saw incensed the old man . |
| 8 | Numbers had swelled to eighty by the time the group reached the old Tartar Frigate Inn and poured onto the pier . |
| 9 | Tora ! filming was not a happy one , as the film crew obliterated the old paint on the airframe and ground-looped a gear leg off during the filming . |
| 10 | And I sha n't come back until I remember what the great Daybog said , " This news made the old man very sad , for he loved Yanek the best of his three grandsons . |
| 11 | Too many hours hitting practice shots on hard ground aggravated the old problem . |
| 12 | Dan , could I ask you first of all how much the mutiny livened the old Boat Race up ? |
| 13 | But my father attended the old Baron in his last illness . |
| 14 | Actually , this policy supported the old tradition of russification and was a special danger in the conditions of the civil war . ’ |
| 15 | poet to whom CD dedicated The Old Curiosity Shop . |
| 16 | After about a mile , a humped-backed bridge crossed the L.B.S.C. Railway and the road entered the old township of Mitcham , then still part of the Croydon Rural District , which was not disbanded until 1914 . |
| 17 | This young man rented the old lady 's room . |
| 18 | Brilliant pink bougainvillaea covered the old stone walls of the cottage , and lemon and white hibiscus stirred in a soft , warm breeze . |
| 19 | As she stared unseeingly at the advertisements in yet another newsagent 's window Folly felt the old anger come surging back . |
| 20 | This church took the old name of St. Lawrence and served the people of Upper Halling until October 21st 1971 , when it was officially closed , being finally pulled down on Friday the 10th May 1974 . |
| 21 | . ’ The Doctor grasped the old man 's sleeve . |
| 22 | I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it . |
| 23 | How the hell did the old man know he was here ? |
| 24 | Later still in 1964 a fine new porch replaced the old entrance and finally in 1987 to celebrate the centenary of the opening , the whole church was refurbished in accordance with the latest liturgical requirements . |
| 25 | ‘ As I was saying , ’ Patrick Milligan continued , once his youngest was out of the house , ‘ if the best came to the best , and your sister married the old codger , we could be in clover . |
| 26 | As the Clinton cavalcade approached the Old State House , on the steps of which he first announced he intended to run for President , a black choir sang America The Beautiful . |
| 27 | The enormous number of immigrants who poured in from all over the country congested the old area within the medieval walls of the City and created new suburbs all around . |
| 28 | The Soviet Union would only permit a united Germany if that state was to be neutral , the argument went , and that way lay the old nightmare of a Germany swinging between East and West . |
| 29 | As this did not work the social worker accompanied the old man to the solicitor for a letter to evict the daughter . |
| 30 | Horror quavered the old man 's voice . |