Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again Charles was astonished how easily Malcolm would fall for the oldest cons in the business . |
| 2 | Otherwise I was afraid I would fall into the old trap of pitying him . |
| 3 | ‘ I will lie back and think of the old circus days if you insist , ’ she said . |
| 4 | So what d' you think of the old place ? |
| 5 | ‘ Come on ; let's break into the old bugger 's best malt before we run you back . |
| 6 | What they gon na do with the old post office ? |
| 7 | For example , some crime was to be committed which would bring upon the Old Navigator , as Coleridge afterwards delighted to call him , the spectral persecution … and his own wanderings . |
| 8 | The support software , together with the graphical front ends will appear on the older systems within the next six months , the company says . |
| 9 | The support software , together with the graphical front ends will appear on the older systems within the next six months , the company says . |
| 10 | Eight of their first 10 concerts were in Leeds but a rare excursion saw them appear at the Old Bell pub in Derby . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , we must look after the old folk , ’ he says fatuously and I notice he 's sweating . |
| 12 | She had arranged to go and live with a niece , whose husband was out of work ; the couple would look after the old lady together . |
| 13 | They could become like the old couple in fathers and Sons — so entwined they would even look alike . |
| 14 | Although Jonadab did not believe in the old country superstition that an elder bush planted by a house kept away witches , he was a firm believer that it deflected lightning during a storm . |
| 15 | This was a dimension he could not remember in the old Elsie . |
| 16 | I 'd like to go and work in the Old Bailey with a barrister |
| 17 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |
| 18 | Other navies might stick to the old tactics of trying to board enemy ships and capture them , or concentrate on firing at the masts and rigging in the hope that successful shooting would disable the other side , but the English preferred to shoot into the hulls of their enemies because they knew that with enough time and enough shot they would destroy their opponents . |
| 19 | I do n't know , you can look at the old Telegraph and see if it 's , the Telegraph I got on Thursday night or Friday night |
| 20 | She did not look at the old man , so she failed to see the shrewd yet kindly glance he gave her . |
| 21 | In the daytime you can come back and look at the Old State House we 're coming up to and see the cobblestones which mark the place where blood was shed in the great Boston Massacre . |
| 22 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 23 | The existing members were told you can either join the new scheme with its improved benefits , reduced contributions , with certain rules that were operating in favour of the employer that were against them , but it was a balancing act , or if you do n't want that you can stay with the old scheme and continue with exactly the same terms . |
| 24 | Would the Young King step into the Old King 's shoes ? |
| 25 | The Kunstverein and Kunsthaus ( art association and society of artists ) , which are currently housed there , will move to the old flower market building beyond the station called the Deichtorhallen . |
| 26 | The electorate must realise that , if Labour is successful at the next general election — which is highly unlikely — we shall immediately return to the old rating system . |
| 27 | Yet today no serious figure inside or outside the health service would argue that we should return to the old system . |
| 28 | Walkers should meet at the Old Quay pub car park at 7pm . |
| 29 | They could stay in the old lodge ; it would save taking a tent . |
| 30 | This will probably be the last journey that the Society will make in the old DMU 's with their excellent visibility . |