Example sentences of "[art] old [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Here , imagine the old Bill thinking we was old brasses ! ’ |
2 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
3 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |
4 | It 's off the er , yeah it 's off the old music box we used to have . |
5 | In the daytime you can come back and look at the Old State House we 're coming up to and see the cobblestones which mark the place where blood was shed in the great Boston Massacre . |
6 | A cool breeze drifted through the open window , carrying with it the sound of water trickling softly from the old stone fountain they 'd painstakingly renovated in the inner courtyard . |
7 | In spite of having more than twice the capacity of the old Grassmarket theatre it has been recording 85 per cent audience capacity since opening last year . |
8 | The old school atlas we came for has been thrown away |
9 | The old cooking cause he 'll only eat a cooked dinner |
10 | . And that 's how they used to start the o and the old gas engine it used to pop pop pop , pop pop pop , pop pop pop pop . |
11 | What did he pay that for and the old post office he got them , it was cheap |
12 | In The Old Curiosity Shop it is high summer , and Dickens himself does not mention a fire , but it is featured by one of his illustrators , within a chimneypiece much too solid and grand for a labourer 's ‘ hut ’ ( Fig. 39 ) . |
13 | And after after he came and settled , my three brothers went and dig dig the graves in the old Llaneilian church you know . |
14 | Since the fall of the old Dwarf Empire it has become the most powerful Night Goblin stronghold north of Mad Dog Pass . |
15 | Back in Isaiah , chapter fifty three th the Old Testament prophet he paints that picture very graphically does n't he ? |
16 | It 's the Old Wine Shop it 's called . |
17 | It 's the Old Wine Shop it 's Amington A M I N G T O N Oh it could be . |
18 | I , I used to walk it there when I went there , e even from Lane I never used to get on the bus I , I used to walk it down there cos we used to go down by the side of , of the old Street cemetery you know over by the gas works and up Street the erm |
19 | There 's usually a old salmon coble they 'd pick up from down the coast somewhere . |
20 | No old war injury you know . |
21 | Can anybody shed some light on an old air pump I got in a box of aquarium bits recently , at a car boot sale ? |
22 | Oh , if it 's an old facial thing she 's getting real fatter ? |
23 | In particular , as an old union man he was thought to have a particularly sensitive , almost intuitive , understanding of the unions and how best to sell a policy of wage restraint to them . |
24 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
25 | I 've got an old Coricidin bottle I keep for the Firebird , and I 've got a beautiful one that I keep specially for ballads ; it 's a really nice hand-blown glass slide , very dense and very smooth , and it 's great for recording subtle kinds of parts on acoustic guitar . ’ |
26 | I he said , he 's an old type chemist he said just mention my name he said he perhaps fix you up with small quantities or try this other place in Wrexham he said they , chemist he said but they do wholesale work as well |
27 | What the precise purpose was of installing complex electronics in an old sailing vessel he did not know for sure , and Iain did not press him . |
28 | The equinoctial gales make a couple of attempts to scare us , but like an old Shetland pony we turn our backs to the wind and stick it out . |
29 | If you 're an old age pensioner you can get get concessions but for the average person who who is n't one of those no chance . |
30 | It was an old world custom he adhered to . |