Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the old [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is outrageous , as judges at the Old Bailey have made clear , but judges have no power over the running of the Prison Service . |
| 2 | He played Alan Crabbe , a nineteen-year-old who falls for the older Eileen — played by Nyree Dawn Porter — and is later beaten up by her fiancé . |
| 3 | Reliable reports have been received since 1969 that the ghostly train runs along the old Louth-Bardney line , all accounts bearing witness to this remarkable phenomenon . |
| 4 | The face is dished , like that of the Jersey , and it probably has some Jersey blood from the nineteenth century , while the brindling probably comes from the old Normandy Isigny variety , a good butter producer and big enough to be used as a draught ox on Alderney and Guernsey , whither it was taken by monks in the time of William the Conqueror . |
| 5 | The 5 kilometre long footpath/cycleway begins at the old Livingston village close to the Kirk of Livingston which was rebuilt in 1732 on a site first consecrated in the 12th century . |