Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were looking to the old Roman virtues for the explanation of Roman success , but the Romans had acquired power by divesting themselves of their old Roman habits . |
| 2 | were living below the old supplementary benefit level and the take up rate was 67 per cent ( Walker , 1986 , p. 185 ) . |
| 3 | They were mixing and mingling , her guests ; the young were speaking to the old , men were speaking to women , Left was speaking to Right , art unto science , and only a few impossible old dullards of the financial world had drifted together to talk about pay comparability and public sector borrowing and the GNP . |
| 4 | Employees qualified for travel expenses while they were commuting between the old and new locations , before moving into accommodation in the new area . |
| 5 | Although it can not be proved , there is a strong likelihood that they were working at the old Tilberthwaite Mine in the early part of the next century … someone was , as we shall see late . |
| 6 | Bath Street , which he was building in the old centre after 1791 , is probably his finest work , with sweeping quadrant arms and a covered promenade of Ionic columns . |
| 7 | Eyeing his enormous frame with amused speculation , she suddenly grinned , not even aware that slowly , little by little , she was reverting to the old Hilary . |
| 8 | ‘ Our lease was ending on the old building so we had to look for somewhere different , ’ says . |
| 9 | Schizophrenic Clive Wells was appearing at the Old Bailey accused of killing a 63-year-old man when he gave specialist nurses the slip . |
| 10 | ‘ Sure , her … last I heard , she was living in the old family house in Illinois . |
| 11 | And what happened you see , the wind got up during the night , and this small fire we had you see , started spreading back among the undergrowth , and then the more it was back , the bigger it was t gaining ground , and it was getting to the old stuff do you see , And then it was a good flare then . |
| 12 | Water some six inches deep or so was running along the old rail bed . |
| 13 | It was sitting in the old swivel chair in the manager 's office , reading a paper . |
| 14 | Wycliffe , in the big black leather armchair by the empty grate , wondered if he was sitting in the old man 's chair . |
| 15 | Firstly the United States competition was changing from the old Bunch to a new collection of competitors targeted more at specific markets . |
| 16 | Yes , of course they are , but we , I was talking about the old sort of diesel multiple unit . |
| 17 | Erika 's assent was less than whole-hearted , for , although she was proud of the care the State was lavishing on the old buildings , and although , in fact , she preferred this part of the city , she felt it a duty to defend the crude and blatant concrete of the post-war Berlin . |
| 18 | I was silent too , because I was thinking about the old man . |
| 19 | She was working at the old people 's home , just up the road — ’ |
| 20 | She was smiling at the old woman in the window ; she nodded to Melissa as she climbed the two or three stone steps leading to the house . |