Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 2 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Acquire a veneer of civilization , ’ she said unexpectedly , with a brutal honesty possible only with someone she regarded as an old friend . |
| 4 | He wandered towards the old harbour , now little more than a quiet backwater . |
| 5 | There will not be the same winding down that occurred with the old rating system . |
| 6 | Bill Pritchard , whom we left going ashore at the Old Mole with his demolition control party and Philip Walton 's demolition squad , protected by Tiger Watson 's men , moved into the Old Town in commando fashion : each party , indeed each man , when alone , moved towards the target without waiting for support . |
| 7 | The people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire . |
| 8 | She had an idea , ‘ When you go back , say you bumped into an old friend of your Gran 's . |
| 9 | Over at Galaxy Crossroads 5 , they see the place where Johnson paused to have an Embassy Mild and a can of Fosters , and bumped into an old nutter who thought he was the devil . |
| 10 | We wandered round the old town of Appleby , taking in the Moot Hall , the Almshouses and castle with its birds and wildlife . |
| 11 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 12 | In the New Testament , God is likened to a father , a shepherd and the owner of a vineyard ( among other images , including some found in the Old Testament ) . |
| 13 | It is simply due to the fact that the diffused , little defined , fitfully manifested and sometimes sub-personal presence of God as Spirit which we found in the Old Testament , becomes clearly focused for the first time in Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 14 | This occurred in the old water authorities . |
| 15 | He also lived at Bridge of Weir , and on his way home through Paisley , late at night , he stopped on the old bridge . |
| 16 | He referred to an Old Testament story in which King David , regarded by the Jews as their greatest king , had broken the law when it was necessary to feed his retreating and hungry troops . |
| 17 | He referred to an old paper that is regularly recycled by one of the unions . |
| 18 | Elisabeth stopped at the old peat barge , the single landmark on an otherwise featureless wilderness . |
| 19 | For your information , if not for your conversion , let me bring you another in the line of startling books which turn upside down all that we ever believed about the Old Testament . |
| 20 | On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior . |
| 21 | When Anna was first told about it in Rome by that ass of a young man , when she learnt about the old truth , the long lie , she cried out it was a bolt from a clear sky shattering her life . |
| 22 | Adam stared at Fincara , but his face seemed like an old garment that would n't fit any more . |
| 23 | ‘ Right , ’ she said , as she dropped into the old chintz covered settee beside him , ‘ what are you going to do with all that lovely money ? ’ |
| 24 | When , they camped in an old road . |
| 25 | Seaford , Hastings , Winchelsea and Rye suffered from the old Sussex enemy , the longshore drift that silted up their harbours relentlessly . |
| 26 | ‘ And God stays out of it , ’ McQuaid twisted round the old saw . |
| 27 | I suppose the ones that came from the old factory , you know were kept on and that |
| 28 | Albert Spanswick came from the old school of trade union leaders and I found him a more persuasive advocate for health service workers than Rodney Bickerstaffe . |
| 29 | They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them . |
| 30 | He was quite capable of building a locomotive as I have a working steam model threshing engine , on about the same scale , that also came from the old office . ’ |