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 | I think Tod must be hankering for the old house , over to Wellport , because that 's where most of our trips end up . |