Example sentences of "in a old [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A barn owl was nesting on a ledge on the side of the chamber in an old jackdaw 's nest and on the right is a bone sample from this position with the bones being protected by the nest debris itself . |
| 2 | She brings the soda in an old Welch 's jelly glass . |
| 3 | After making her name as a prisoner of war in Tenko ( in which she appeared with Renee Asherson ) , Stephanie has been busy with a second series of the TV comedy Waiting for God about a group of crumblies living in an old folks ' home . |
| 4 | Er I think she does a bit of part time I 'm not really sure what she does she comes and goes , she probably works in an old folks ' home or something , she has a uniform . |
| 5 | As one Afro-caribbean elder said in an old peoples ' club : ‘ It is not only the climate that is cold in England ’ ( Grant , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | A group of residents in an old peoples ' home may between them be confronting many occasions of loss and death ; the handling of these matters requires sensitivity too . |
| 7 | A son whose father had Parkinson 's disease and had been in an old people 's home commented : |
| 8 | A woman of 99 who lived in an old people 's home was a regular lecturer to one social work course . |
| 9 | An interesting example of task-centred work in an old people 's home showed ways which could be helpful to residential workers , or health care teams in hospital , to work on adjustment to residential life , or the hospital care the client might experience ( Dierking et al . , |
| 10 | ‘ That is real politeness , then , to stay for two and a half hours , in an old woman 's bedroom , listening and asking questions . |