Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I added that for the old tape , you know ? |
| 2 | Or even , Rachel wondered , ‘ You 've got to say this for the old girl , she does keep on trying . ’ |
| 3 | Whatever the activity , I still see this as the old style … it 's teacher-led from that point of view in that they rely on me to start them off and I mean it 's almost as if I stand there with a gun and say ‘ Go ! ’ |
| 4 | It is now easy to make fun of that confidence , both in the adequacy of the method and the permanence of the theoretical models , but it was no less powerful for being , as some of the old philosophers might have pointed out , misplaced . |
| 5 | In order to make use of the wood , the trust has revived some of the old woodland skills in an innovative way . |
| 6 | You can see some of the old things . |
| 7 | Some of the old guard ashore still regarded us as playboys though , and resented the money that was being spent on the new boats and their equipment . |
| 8 | I 'll think what I can do about that ; I do n't want to go back to Security or through Six … when you come down to it how do we know some of the Old Guard in those places are n't involved in this bloody attempt to run the country from the shadows ? |
| 9 | Some of the old skill is perpetuated on the island as a cottage industry but the patterns are now used and often machine-knitted by mainland manufacturers . |
| 10 | Sometimes they 're just aesthetically pleasing things ; some of the old Gretsch amplifiers and that kind of thing are kind of cool to look at . |
| 11 | Even some of the old favourites have had a few imaginative additions like Vegetarian Lasagne with added carrot , apple and fennel . |
| 12 | Whitebred Shorthorn and White Galloway bulls were introduced in the 1920s and 1930s to improve the beef quality of some of the old dairy herds and , although some were still being milked in the 1950s , a positive decision was made in the 1960s to concentrate on high-quality beef production . |
| 13 | There are still some of the old red ‘ K6 ’ telephone boxes left in Northamptonshire . |
| 14 | But do n't sit too close to the road , as some of the old buses and trucks leave a trail of black smoke as they struggle up Funchal 's twisting , narrow streets . |
| 15 | Some of the old farmhouses still have a range of windows that indicate the former position of a weaving chamber . |
| 16 | Some of the old girls drank , but they knew when to keep their mouths shut . |
| 17 | We 'd better get , what some of the old dears are up |
| 18 | This was the source of the divergence between some of the old committee of the Anti-Slavery Society and the Agency committee . |
| 19 | They do some activities downstairs — they take some of the old ladies and give them bits of painting and that sort of thing , but nothing I 'm interested in . |
| 20 | But some of the old skills are just as vital . |
| 21 | As some of the old Orkney words and expressions fall in to disuse , links in the valuable heritage that thurls us to our Viking ancestry are broken . |
| 22 | but I think it would in fact you 'd maybe find records of it in some of the old Orkney boats . |
| 23 | This meant that some of the old despoblados , the deserted towns that had been the despair of the economists for two hundred years , came back under cultivation , just as in the town of Salamanca , centre of a great wheat region , the empty houses left untenanted by the recession of the seventeenth century were occupied once more . |
| 24 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 25 | The producer of the programme , Jack Barton , felt that ‘ if the viewers could accept Nina and her disabilities , there was a chance of chipping away at some of the old prejudices that stand to prevent mentally handicapped people from being accepted in the community . ’ |
| 26 | I mean it was taking that whole Swiss thing and saying that okay these are the new rules , whereas The Guardian accepts some of the old rules . |
| 27 | Highlights include the Nocturnes , which carry introspection to remote regions of intensity and the Ballades , where some of the old abandon is rekindled to powerful effect . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , in Italy , some of the old gang of discredited politicians who used to support closer European co-operation have suddenly swung round to oppose it . |
| 29 | It 's high time we kept some of the old G M W rules . |
| 30 | At the present time some of the old Airey houses are being demolished and rebuilt . |