Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] an old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a real Fanny-by-gaslight relic of the old city , redolent of gin and vomit and brutal crimes , and the fog had crept in like an old friend and made a dripping urinal of the walls . |
| 2 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 3 | It was getting on for ‘ good night ’ time when I fell in with an old lady who complained that the naughty children of Sligo pulled her ivy down and swore at her . |
| 4 | By now Mick and Paddy had arrived and we took turns , along with an old man and a little girl , to scoop out basins of water . |
| 5 | The Pit derives its name from the steep galley down from an old tin mine , which the Badlands surfers must negotiate to reach the beach below . |
| 6 | I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court . |
| 7 | The guy who let us in flops down on an old divan . |
| 8 | Towards the edge of the wood , where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond , only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog 's mercury and oak-tree roots . |
| 9 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , the distance between London and Brighton is not very great , and you have even been seen in the vicinity of Brighton , so why not call in on an old friend ? |
| 10 | ‘ It is so good of you to look in on an old invalid when you must be so very busy at the office — what with the Dean 's compost heap yielding such unwholesome remains . ’ |
| 11 | Did Sue really mean to hand her love over like an old parcel ? |
| 12 | The one you spluttered over like an old colonel . ’ |
| 13 | Wycliffe came out into the sunshine , blinking ; Emily saw him off like an old friend . |
| 14 | I followed the main road up the mountain leading west , then struck off along an old mule track . |
| 15 | The royal couple 's individual humanity , rather than their status , has made most impact ; Charles 's unflagging curiosity , reports of Diana shaking hands with a leper in Indonesia , her instinctive picking up of an old woman 's dropped walking-stick . |
| 16 | Honor got up like an old woman , glancing past Topaz to the shelves where bottles of medicine were stored . |
| 17 | And as all sports are matched to your own ability , you can keep up with an old favourite or try your hand at something new . |
| 18 | Look if I take my hair off I 'm gon na finish up with an old girl with a bloody Zimmer frame . |
| 19 | He wore a topee , the original colour of which was uncertain , it was so battered and stained with sweat ; a bright red shirt ; and a pair of khaki shorts held up with an old red and orange tie . |
| 20 | Conti plays a disgraced MI5 agent returning to Britain from his adopted Russia and forced to team up with an old espionage adversary ( John Standing ) — but who is spying on whom ? |
| 21 | As the summer came I could take the pram along the Hastings promenade , and meet up with an old form mate of mine from school days . |
| 22 | At the foot of the steps , Murphy waited , bundled up in an old sheepskin . |
| 23 | Inside the field centre she 's set up in an old barn , 30 eight year-olds are being introduced to life on the farm . |
| 24 | You say pick your anchors up in an old boat ? |
| 25 | The floor was of black and red quarry tiles and there were racks on the walls for the guns but these , of course , had gone , Hilbert 's two shot-guns had gone , one buried in the Little Wood , the other in his bedroom at home in Edgware , zipped up in an old golf-bag under the bed . |
| 26 | He had three sons : James , a weaver , who lived in a little cottage without a chimney at Newton ; Jacob , a tailor of Brandwood who died young ; and Thomas , a labourer , who set up home in ‘ a poore pitifull hutt , built up to an old oake ’ at the side of Divlin Lane . |
| 27 | More than an hour later , Mrs Chamberlin opened the door to find all her children under the table eating tiger stew out of an old bowler hat doing duty as a cooking pot , save one , who was crouched on top of the table growling ferociously . |
| 28 | Boyish , flaxen-haired , fresh-faced , with a spring in his step , he could have slipped out of an old singing/dancing Cliff Richard film . |
| 29 | He looked amazing , like Tarzan out of an old film , about to leap up into the tree-creeper . |
| 30 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |