Example sentences of "back in the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | happier when it was back in the old feet and inches . |
| 2 | With her thoughts on another , simpler life back in the old country , Kelly put the letter in an envelope , picked up her coat and left for London . |
| 3 | If Jitters did n't have a wife and kids back in the old country — which , come to think of it , he probably did n't these days — he might just have dragged Fat Old Stinky Juanita up before the padre and tied the old knot . |
| 4 | And some of them , of course , emigrated to the United States because they could n't cope with life back in the old lands , the Shakers , are they part of the same sort |
| 5 | On second thoughts I think it best to put it back in the old oak chest . |
| 6 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 7 | When you , when you expect that that that that takes the copy back in the old file . |
| 8 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 9 | Even now , a hard up local could be sure of a free pint just by telling Knocker he had watched him fight at Gloucester 's annual Barton Fair , back in the old days . |
| 10 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 11 | way back in the old days but Now then , |
| 12 | ‘ They built things differently back in the old days . |