Example sentences of "old man [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we followed the old man up the stone steps beneath the portico and into the long hall . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you see that old man outside the bookshop ? |
| 3 | She began to back out of the room , trying to focus on a picture hanging behind the old man on the wall above the mantelpiece , a weird dark picture in which an angel of vengeance flew across a purple sky lit by flashes of lightning , sword in hand , and below a man with blood streaming from his neck prayed for mercy . |
| 4 | He added four lines to Lewis Carroll 's verse about the old man on the gate : |
| 5 | ‘ Back on the tugs , eh ? ’ he said quietly , tugging on his moustache , ‘ we might be able to make a bob or two between us there mate , what with the old man on the pilot boat as well . ’ |
| 6 | Good as gold and he was like old man on the seat ! |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't got any teeth ’ , one old man at the back of the hall retorted . |
| 8 | Yes , I told the old man at the gate — a sure method of propagating the lie — I was off to Hydra for the week-end . |
| 9 | With a garrulous old man at the inn . |
| 10 | Just before he went to sleep , he could hear the wind and the rain in the garden , and he thought , for a moment , that he could see the face of an old man at the window . |
| 11 | Posh Porky seemed to be torn between going along with her old man to the synagogue and staying put at the shop , where she 'd sit by the window and start scoffing cream buns the moment he was out of sight . |
| 12 | After he had taken the old man to the station , Nick sat in the garden and read . |
| 13 | From Seathwaite follow the main route to the crest of the Walna Scar ridge ( 2.5 miles ) and continue on the Walna Scar road downhill round the southern slopes of the Old Man to the village of Coniston ( 3.5 miles ) . |
| 14 | It was a type of initiation ceremony for new boys and took place during Saturday break when two prefects held each new boy up in turn to kiss the Old Man to the accompaniment of the ironical applause of the whole school . |
| 15 | As this did not work the social worker accompanied the old man to the solicitor for a letter to evict the daughter . |
| 16 | Ah said the old man of the woods , there 's the old man of the lake . |
| 17 | WHEN that grand old man of the turf Jim Joel died last spring at the age of 97 , a condition in his will allowed the Queen Mother to choose any horse she wished from his estate . |
| 18 | She fastened on to the person whose house it was like the Old Man of the Sea in ‘ Sinbad the Sailor ’ . ’ |
| 19 | You 're the Old Man of the Sea . |
| 20 | He is the Old Man of the Sea . |
| 21 | He ca n't behave or think or speak or do anything else better than I can — nearly as well as I can — so he 's going to be the Old Man of the Sea until I shake him off somehow . |
| 22 | Is he the same driver that you let go two years ago , he 's an old man of the track a little at , he has n't had a terribly successful time at Ferrari . |
| 23 | According to Marco Polo 's account the sect 's leader ( the " Old Man of the Mountain " ) |
| 24 | ‘ How in the mountains of Palestine live a secret sect of infidels called the Assassins , ruled by a chieftain called the Old Man of the Mountain . |
| 25 | These were the Hashishoni , the followers of the Old Man of the Mountain , skilled killers who came by night . |
| 26 | Police in Egypt have arrested a seventeen year old man over the killing by Islamic fundamentalists of a Gloucestershire nurse . |
| 27 | The un-named visitor thought the whole scene , complete with students buying oranges and nuts from an old man under the archway , was one of ‘ painful vapidity ’ . |
| 28 | UNLESS advancing years deceive us , John Scott is the old man among the region 's parliamentary hopefuls . |
| 29 | One of many legends on the closeness of human and chimpanzee has been told to us by an old man in the village of Daobli , near our study site in Taï national park . |
| 30 | The picture of an old man in the sky is not taught by any of the great religions — yet this may come as a surprise to many people today . |