Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 2 | I found them in an old file . |
| 3 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 4 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 5 | My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos . |
| 6 | He told me about an old school behind a high wall in a dirty street . |
| 7 | The streets of the city welcomed her as an old friend as she made her way unerringly towards the brilliantly lit entrance of Tivoli . |
| 8 | Duncan took out his passport and handed it to the older man , who opened it to the relevant page and stamped it with a small stamper he had with him . |
| 9 | Jazzbeaux made a point with the fingers of her left hand , and jabbed it into the old woman 's throat , twice . |
| 10 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 11 | Tippy placed hers on the old bureau . |
| 12 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
| 13 | The road took them between the old splendour of the Khulafa and the Gailani mosques , and across the railway track that wound half the length of the country to Arbil , and out through Housing Project Number Ten , and through the concretescape of Saddam City , the Chairman 's way of marking the end of the Iranian war . |
| 14 | While the aircraft was unloaded the crew was spirited away by car through the back roads of the airport by a civilian with a machine-gun , who took them to the old Sheraton Hotel and offered them cakes and coffee . |
| 15 | Most people kept their papers in tobacco tins ; one man kept his in a biscuit tin , and one shaikh stored his in an old suitcase . |
| 16 | But she no longer treated him with the old irritable dismissiveness ; she knew of Edouard 's reputation as a businessman , and obviously had heard his abilities praised , for she now regarded him warily , as if trying to decide whether , after all , she might have been wrong , and her younger son might be of use to her . |
| 17 | Instead of sending back to Britain for a , a part , they took it off an old tank you see , and on that had been part was still all right you see , but the tank was er useless but there would maybe be a bit of the track alright , so we cannibalized them . |
| 18 | The Old Gang Smelting Mills reminded me of an old deserted coal pit I played around as a child . |
| 19 | Lily 's father presented me with an old pistol he had . |
| 20 | They remembered me from the old days . ’ |
| 21 | He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded you of an older , bygone age . |
| 22 | It reminded her of the old days when just a passing glance of his could reduce her to a state of burning confusion . |
| 23 | He remembered her in the old days , singing at parties for hours and then turning up for rehearsal next day without any sign of strain or tiredness in her voice . |
| 24 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 25 | Then the newly installed chicane turned out to be a terrifying obstacle , though Emerson still preferred it to the old flat-out curve . |
| 26 | Finding her own pocket handkerchief , she gave it into the old lady 's other hand . |
| 27 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 28 | But they greeted her as an old friend . |
| 29 | After that he greeted her like an old friend each morning ; she did n't mind , it was dull talking to Magnus who seldom listened , and he gave her protection from the intense political views of the Afghan 's owner . |
| 30 | The announcement came in a Commons written reply by the roads minister , Kenneth Carlisle , but by that time most of the UK 's 9000 test stations had already halted the test and replaced it with the old visual check for excess smoke . |