Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] of [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to the top of Ludgate Hill and watched exhausted men being carried out of the Old Bailey , then down side streets to where the steeple of St Bride 's church was tottering and the bells had gone crashing down minutes previously . |
| 2 | This August Rivermead staff and patients moved out of the old Victorian wards into new facilities . |
| 3 | The garage was part of the stable block and had been made out of the old coach house . |
| 4 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |
| 5 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 6 | In the centre was the ironing-board made out of an old table covered with a blanket and a sheet . |
| 7 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 8 | It includes every kind of artistic endeavour — from conventional watercolours to a pink hippopotamus made out of an old car . |
| 9 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 10 | An Independent Television Authority would regulate them , run by a group of people pulled out of the old drawer marked ‘ gentlemen amateurs ’ . |
| 11 | Boyish , flaxen-haired , fresh-faced , with a spring in his step , he could have slipped out of an old singing/dancing Cliff Richard film . |