Example sentences of "[adv prt] with [art] old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Neighbours were concerned because a daughter with a psychiatric history , marital difficulties and debts , had moved in with the old couple . |
| 3 | With each successive moult the current crop of fungal parasites is shed along with the old exoskeleton . |
| 4 | This contract should be reconsidered as the elderly person 's progress or ‘ career ’ in the home is reviewed on a regular quarterly or half yearly basis , with the same social worker still responsible , and the family present or represented , along with the old person . |
| 5 | The Railway Inn has closed , along with the old chemist ‘ s shop . |
| 6 | And then we used to and they used to come along with the old cart and start leading . |
| 7 | Sugar beeting in those days , you used to stick the old plough in , plough them up and then we had to go along knocking them , to knock all the soil off , then chop the tops off , put them in heaps , go along with the old horse and cart . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps she would have been better off with the old humbug after all . |
| 10 | How are you getting on with the old battleaxe ? ’ |
| 11 | We called it that so if it leaked out it would get mixed up with the old Winter Garden names . ’ |
| 12 | But later — in the morning , when he could put up with the old boy 's fussing . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't always keep up with the old bugger , but I 'm never far behind . ’ |
| 14 | The highway , which links up with the old road south of Charikar , avoids mujahedin territory and and passes through a region where the Kabul regime has concluded deals with local guerrilla commanders . |
| 15 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |
| 16 | YOUR reader who came up with the old nonsense about teachers ' holidays obviously knows nothing about the job . |
| 17 | Two suitably romantic leaders , who escaped in time , now emerged , the 26-year-old third Earl of Derwentwater , a grandson of Charles II by one of his mistresses , who had been brought up with the Old Pretender at St Germain , and become a major landowner in Westmorland , and Thomas Forster , an MP for Northumberland . |
| 18 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 19 | People in my trade are supposed to be able to help , but I 've only been able to come up with the old platitude : ‘ Do n't buy a £500 car from a dealer because you 'll only get £100 worth of vehicle — the rest will be profit . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Look if I take my hair off I 'm gon na finish up with an old girl with a bloody Zimmer frame . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Daughter looked as if she were ready to give out with the old Technicolor Yawn . |
| 26 | At first Stuart had been excited by the sight of an occasional fish rising out of the sluggish water , but later he 'd grown bored because he was too small to row successfully , and trailing his hands over the side apparently disturbed the fish ; baling out with the old saucepan also made too much noise . |
| 27 | Start by preparing the old path surface , brush it out with an old broom and leave it to become tacky . |
| 28 | He 'd flick them out with an old hickory shafted wedge and say , ‘ Keep going , son . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I would like to have seen him holding us back with an old sword in his hand . ’ |
| 30 | I kept out of his way while he fussed about with the old banger and went to get some petrol . |