Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the old [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunne belonged to ‘ the military section of Britain 's old upper class ’ , as J. B. Priestley [ q.v. ] , who based Time and the Conways ( 1937 ) on his interpretation of Dunne 's theory , was to recall ; ‘ he looked and behaved like the old regular officer type crossed with a mathematician and an engineer . ’ |
| 2 | That was how the words occurred in the old Latin poem . |
| 3 | In 1939 , Dr Paul Kosok of Long Island University discovered the enigmatic straight tracks on the pampa near Nazca , Peru , and in 1978 the zoologist Tony Morrison reported on the old straight tracks to be found in the remote altiplano region of western Bolivia . |
| 4 | What happened to the old grey goose ? |
| 5 | It existed under the old domestic rating system , and still exists for those who do not pay rates in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | It was a cold , wet , typically late autumnal afternoon as I walked along the old trackbed , avoiding the many puddles of murky rainwater on my way . |
| 7 | It equally impressed those who served on the old Select Committee on Social Services . |
| 8 | Pristina is surrounded by artillery ranges that belonged to the old Yugoslav army . |
| 9 | Shortly after I joined the Crofters Commission , the Chief Technical Officer and I walked across the old shieling ground , in the heart of a large general common pasture , in another of the islands . |
| 10 | Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute . |
| 11 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 12 | Rosie too was wiping away tears ; she gazed round the old familiar room and asked , ‘ Where 's Connor ? |
| 13 | David Damiani 's father Jean owned olive groves , extensive properties in Jaffa , Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and a soap factory which he operated inside the old Turkish serail on the hill above Jaffa not far from St Peter 's church . |
| 14 | True , they led to the old Naval Dockyard but that did not generate many heavy goods vehicles and probably none at night . |
| 15 | ‘ We sold to the old Soviet Union but dealt only with the central import agency . |
| 16 | For a second she imagined that she detected a bleary look within his own eyes — and she knew it must match her own — but then it was gone as fast as summer lightning and she shivered beneath the old familiar expression , that brooding , storm-filled one that she knew boded no good to her . |
| 17 | It faced in fifty-seven directions at once , but kept from the old American contingent , and from the anarchic underground , dislike of any political organization , a terror of being bored , or boring , and a tendency , at times , to be both , and incomprehensible with it . |
| 18 | Rain took in the old expensive furniture , the floor length windows which , beyond their bolted shutters , would have coastal views . |
| 19 | ‘ Not one of Rainbow 's cells , ’ I persist , ‘ remembers the cold slap of the water in the stream where you and Gittel swam , or the taste of the berries from the bush near your hut , or the names of the birds in the woods where you screamed to the old native gods . |
| 20 | Corbett looked at the old drunken face and knew Benstede was being sardonic . |
| 21 | She looked at the old narrow beams that stretched across the ceiling , at the white-painted walls and the brightly coloured furniture , comfortable chairs and the mellow , shining wood of tables and bookcases . |
| 22 | My only reservation is that the public who use the stand will not be able to see the racing in the same manner as they did from the old open top affairs . |
| 23 | ‘ The controversy , ’ says Finlay , ‘ is over the current designation of Foinavon at 914 metres when we converted from the old imperial contour . |
| 24 | In the Republic , slowed down by the roads , they took a detour , turned left at Manorhamilton , followed the Bonet river , peeped at the old great mansions in the trees , dreamed up a whole world of the madly rich lurking in this lovely countryside , their children educated at the Convent of the Little Daughters of the Wealthy which they placed on Inisfree , serenely sited on the gleaming waters of Lough Gill . |
| 25 | He managed to turn Llewelyn 's imposing new title , compounded of the old sacred name for a reassurance to the Welsh , and the added flourish for English ears that had scarcely heard of Aberffraw , into a satirical comment , but he did it with great delicacy . |
| 26 | The honour marked the 40th anniversary of the war 's end and it is thought to be the last medal minted under the old Soviet administration . |
| 27 | Theseus and Antiope are finely finished all round ; but the back of Athena is left rough ( an important document for archaic technique ) and she clearly stood in the old formal kore-pose . |
| 28 | The witness , John Hostiar , Bailiff of Halling , testified to the old established customs of Halling and the evidence of the witness is recorded as follows : " Being asked how many plough teams of land in the Manor of Halling , he says that in the Manor of Halling with its Pertinencies , vis . |