Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the UBR , the Community Charge sought to depart from the old rating system method of calculating local taxes . |
| 2 | Although he never grew much above 5′5″ , Bremner was always in the thick of disputes and played according to the old motto , when the going gets tough , the tough get going . |
| 3 | The accused had fixed a new glass fibre wing on his car the day after the accident , and he said he could n't remember what he 'd done with the old one . |
| 4 | ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’ |
| 5 | It happened to lead from the old barracks ( still used for housing a garrison ) up to the hill pass above the town . |
| 6 | ‘ Ca n't think why we ever got rid of the old bat . |
| 7 | And nationalisation : that was great because it got rid of the old bosses . |
| 8 | He began tearing off the old , almost ragged , tapestry and prising out tacks . |
| 9 | Then I began to walk along the old coach road . |
| 10 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 11 | For a time it became known as the Old Mill , and later Mill House . |
| 12 | Long conversations tired her but she loved to talk of the old days and her life as a nanny to a wealthy family . |
| 13 | Luckily neither the G.P.O. or McAlpine 's had any vacancies and after a marathon hatchet-burying session Jake , Ali McMordie , Henry Cluney and Dolphin Taylor decided to dust off the old Stiff Little Fingers ' backdrop and head out on tour . |
| 14 | It was very late when he left the party , and as he was unable to obtain transport to his home in Mountsorrel , he decided to walk along the old track-bed from Belgrave to Rothley Station , this being the most direct route home . |
| 15 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 16 | Blunt still felt hurt about the old French woman . |
| 17 | The Wisharts resumed their reading , Mrs Wishart kept glancing at the old lady — she could n't help admiring her dress , it was so Victorian and really out of place in 1945 . |
| 18 | They preferred to stick with the old ways . |
| 19 | When I was young she used to come up to my mother 's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady . |
| 20 | Calling it ‘ one of the worst taxes ever created in the history of man ’ , the Duke appeared to speak for the old Conservative tradition . |
| 21 | Julie smiled , remembering the times she and her friends had hidden in the old shed during hilarious games of hide and seek and sardines . |
| 22 | If Richard had heard about the old Angevin claim when he began work on a castle within the political orbit of Châtellerault he probably thought it had long since lapsed . |
| 23 | He had heard about the Old Magic at University , although it was forbidden to wizards . |
| 24 | She had also caught the very faint remnant of warmth , gaiety , that he thought no-one but himself had recognized from the old days . |
| 25 | Theda had drawn the curtain about the four-poster open , and the light from her candle had fallen on the old lady 's face . |
| 26 | Along with the name came the Servite Fathers who had officiated at the old church . |
| 27 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 28 | And the worst of it all was , Kate was the one who had to listen to the old sod ! |
| 29 | He confessed that everyone trusted him now , as they had done in the old days . |
| 30 | Sadness far the way he had felt about the old man blended with a sense that his childhood was irrecoverably lost , and the knowledge that the very past when it was in flight Lived , like the present , in continual death . |