Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well I like singing it , what I mean , I think what it is I 'm looking for the old , I 'm not being funny , I 'm looking for the old voice |
| 2 | Try looking for the old Cinque Port of Rye along the coast and you 'll be disappointed . |
| 3 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 4 | In the port column heading for the Old Mole , an ML skipper caught the distinct smell of countryside , sweet traces of grass scents among the more pervasive exhaust fumes . |
| 5 | He watched them go off hand in hand , and then he wandered away across the quarry , heading for the old manager 's office . |
| 6 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 7 | when when you 're in in the fucking station waiting for the old train you 're on the front of the fucking platform . |
| 8 | WASPS come to attention in the league tomorrow by calling for the old guard in an effort to repulse Gloucester 's rugged raiders at Sudbury . |
| 9 | And neither do you , for Levi has never played in an Open Championship , although in a thoughtful moment he will say that he may have erred in not entering for the Old Course last year , and that now he may well play The Open . |
| 10 | Immortality is for Tithonus a punishment , it is cold and silent whereas death is warm and inviting for the old man . |
| 11 | This imposition of routine health screening for the older age groups in the new GP contract is obviously premised upon the assumption that routine screening is beneficial to the health of the population . |
| 12 | I think Tod must be hankering for the old house , over to Wellport , because that 's where most of our trips end up . |