Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] a old " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she was eight or nine years old , Myra had spent part of the summer holiday with her grandmother , who lived in a old schoolhouse in a small country village . |
| 2 | A woman of 99 who lived in an old people 's home was a regular lecturer to one social work course . |
| 3 | They were all hearteningly well preserved and twinkling with renewed well-being , and none more so than Jim , 87 , and Mary , 91 , who met in an old people 's home and scandalised the staff by taking naps on the same bed , before deciding to make honest pensioners of each other . |
| 4 | During the year the Church B lost seven through death , nine moved out of the area , four of whom were elderly people who transferred to an old people 's home in another part of the town , and five to a ‘ better neighbourhood ’ . |
| 5 | An inquest opened yesterday on two teenagers who died in an old quarry pond . |
| 6 | I know of someone who took in an old lady and she turned out to be well-known for being difficult . |