Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawkins and Jess took the slave to the one which housed the old pony tack , the moth-eaten horse blankets , the bits and pieces from Mr Jarman 's horse-riding lifetime and his father 's before him . |
| 2 | In November 19X1 the Bank of England defined a new monetary sector which amalgamated the old banking sector with a number of other related institutions . |
| 3 | A wind such as East Anglia only knows , cruel , ‘ lazy ’ ( too lazy to go round you , going through you instead ) , a wind which made the old ladies in the town say : ‘ Oi 've got me thermals on ’ . |
| 4 | For today 's kites have one unique quality which made the old ones so tiresome to fly . |
| 5 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 6 | I just let out a giggle of disbelief which made the old gecko who ran the class flutter his ruff at me in disapproval ; I calmed him with a quip and continued the negotiations with my round and financially tenacious new chum . |
| 7 | Not only does the epidermis secrete the greater part of the cuticle but it also produces the moulting fluid ( Bade and Wyatt , 1962 ; Jeuniaux , 1963 ) , which dissolves the old endocuticle before the immature insect moults ( p. 361 ) , it absorbs the digestion products of the old cuticle , repairs wounds and differentiates in such a way as to determine the surface patterns of the insect ( Wigglesworth , 1959 ; Lawrence , 1967 ) . |
| 8 | Because this diffusion was not even , and was far more marked where levels of literacy were comparatively high , it resulted in the growth of two cultural zones : on the one hand , French-speaking regions receptive to ‘ foreign ’ ideas , and on the other , rural areas which retained the old language and the old ways of life . |
| 9 | MB-CARADON , the UK conglomerate yesterday signalled its intention to sell its 25.3 per cent stake in Carnaud-Metalbox , the French-based can-maker which contains the old Metal Box company . |
| 10 | The dining room has a beautiful Welsh stone fireplace with original pit , and in the lounge ( which incorporates the old pantry ) old meat hooks remain alongside the colour TV . |
| 11 | In this confrontation , the traditional religious forces , which support the old monopoly religious structure , have so far prevailed . |
| 12 | The DSS has created a new Disability Living Allowance which merges the old attendance allowance with two new components of the mobility allowance . |
| 13 | Acceptance , dependence or rejection will therefore be inextricably tied in with the preservation of areas of activity which have given self-esteem , which are associated with a particular role function , which confirm the old person as the sort of person he or she wants to be . |
| 14 | Then , my eyes were lifted up to the hill which overshadows the old city . |
| 15 | People stopped building new ghettoes in which to practise the old persecutions ? |
| 16 | In one of these turrets was a camera oscura , a dark room with a crystal prism set in it , which enabled the old Contessa to see the people walking in the square below . |
| 17 | But after the vulgar beauty has faded , we face a grey ash of burn-out , a misanthropic dawn which prompts the old question : was it worth it after all ? |
| 18 | The return just alters a pointer which restores the old set . |
| 19 | Oddly , consuming countries are also members of the International Coffee Organisation , which policed the old cartel . |
| 20 | ‘ Which means the old boy 's one clever manipulator . ’ |
| 21 | Not only does Rutland no longer exist , swallowed up by a greater Leicestershire , but the trains which cross the old county now only stop at Oakham , its last surviving station . |
| 22 | During the eighteenth century there were signs of the first rumblings of the tectonic upheaval which shattered the old order in Europe , and from its ruins created a group of nation states out of the submerged nations which lay under the surface of the great multinational empires . |
| 23 | He prefers to see believers as the heirs to the one Abrahamic covenant which inaugurated the Old Testament people of God ( Acts 3:25 ) . |
| 24 | It follows a winding course through low-lying water meadows , between the piers which supported the old railway arch ( unused in the wake of Dr Beeching ) , down through attractive wooded slopes to Steeple Mill . |
| 25 | The question is whether Christ and Christianity have presented a new and truer view of God which invalidates the Old Testament picture . |
| 26 | As a member of the influential Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy ( COMA ) , he helped to establish the new Dietary Reference Values ( DRVs ) for nutrients , which replaced the old RDA ( Recommended Daily Amounts ) guidelines . |
| 27 | When we went to gigs David used to travel in Ralph Horton 's car and we used to have to go in the old ambulance which replaced the old Atlas van . |
| 28 | However , other schemes , including those which replaced the old apprenticeship training , do lead to jobs for which preliminary training is required and in these motivation can be very high . |
| 29 | In denying that bilinguals are special in this respect , I am arguing for an approach to the study of linguistic interactions which bridges the old barrier between " variationist " studies , which deal with social and stylistic variation in " monolingual " , socially stratified speech communities , and " ethnographic " studies of code switching and related phenomena which are normally confined to bilingual or diglossic bidialectal communities . |
| 30 | It will be white with a god-like figure like those Tibetan Buddhist temples which reflect the old vision of the winged disc and prepare us for the new . |