Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my father attended the old Baron in his last illness . |
| 2 | And yesterday their lawyer told the Old Bailey : ‘ It brought home to them the serious nature of what they had done . ’ |
| 3 | Such was her determination to break the old mould that she was totally unaffected by the sudden appearance of Curiosity Killed the Cat star Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot on stage midway through one of her routines . |
| 4 | The flora and fauna had re-established its claim to colonise the old trackbed . |
| 5 | The smile this brought to her face pleased the old nurse . |
| 6 | Breavman , the main character of his autobiographical novel The Favourite Came recollected his father singing the old soldiers ' song ‘ K-K-K-Katy … ’ ! |
| 7 | His argument deploys the old jargon of authenticity , now combined with the jargon of otherness ; despite his Hegelian framework , Scruton deploys this jargon as an exalted metaphor which does little more than bestow a spurious profundity on a normative sexual politics which is at heart timid , conservative , and deeply ignorant . |
| 8 | In his showmanlike way , Chapman wanted Highbury to become the greatest club ground in the world , a new kind of football mecca , with a big crowd capacity and as futuristic in design as the new West Stand , built at his suggestion to replace the old wooden stand erected in 1913 . |
| 9 | ‘ As I was saying , ’ Patrick Milligan continued , once his youngest was out of the house , ‘ if the best came to the best , and your sister married the old codger , we could be in clover . |