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Example sentences of "the old [noun sg] at the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The old lady at the Post Office was standing outside as they went by .
2	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 .
3	The old cow at the counter popped them in the microwave to warm them for him .
4	Instead of converting the programs from one machine code to another , we could envisage writing a program for the new computer to simulate the old computer at the instruction level .
5	One of them is a teacher of deaf children at St Mary 's and she loved the old schoolroom at the museum and told me that her class were doing a project on Northern Ireland and she must bring them here to see it all .
6	Grom the Paunch , a notorious Goblin king , sails from the Old World at the head of a mighty Goblin war host .
7	The employer may have a problem if the employee has not managed to sell the old property at the end of this time .
8	The company 's Special Catering Division has been busy of late , arranging catering at a wide variety of functions including dinner for 400 in the magnificent setting of the Old Library at the Guildhall and two days celebrations abroad a new Geest Line Ship , moored on the Thames , off Greenwich .
9	I went to the cracked end of the old slipway at the north end of the island .
10	" The Meeting considering that the old channel at the end of the Iron Bridge continues to annoy the Traveller … contract for Erecting a sufficient Causway over the said old channel . "
11	In the above example , the old woman at the door intended to establish contact , apologize for disturbing me , explain why she had come to my house instead of another , and ask for assistance in freeing the cat .
12	In the above example , the old woman at the door intended to establish contact , apologize for disturbing me , explain why she had come to my house instead of another , and ask for assistance in freeing the cat .