Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow Mr Lee has to carry the old guard with him , not least because the mainlanders dominate the legislature as well as the National Assembly . |
| 2 | As a gentle reminder that women play , watch and have served cricket , Dr Andrew has included an old photograph of one holding a bat . |
| 3 | Salim is now homeless in the sense that he has shed an old tendency to nostalgia : ‘ the idea of going home , of leaving , the idea of the other place ’ , he takes to be weakening and destructive . |
| 4 | This decade has seen the old bogey of progressive rock gradually replaced by progressive pop : the site for left-liberal well-meaning and pensiveness has shifted from concept albums and pomp rock , to the three-minute song and pop soul . |
| 5 | Among other effects this has freed the old Gotthard road between Fluelen and the Gotthard Pass from most through traffic ( as , indeed , it also freed the southern section of that road beyond the pass into the Ticino ) . |
| 6 | The group that has used the old Cooking Centre has had to vacate the premises but so far nothing has happened . |
| 7 | Since the Second World War , however , nearly every rich man , on making his fortune , has bought an old house and refurbished it in its period style . |
| 8 | The first is that my tree really has become an old mate and I really do go out into the garden and hug it . |
| 9 | The butter booths and the fire station have been removed but the local branch of the Heritage Society has restored the old town lock-up , known as the penny cells . |
| 10 | Ever-enterprising chairman Reg Burr , sensing the chance to make a few bob out of the wave of sentimentality which has greeted the old stadium 's demise , contacted local auctioneers , who will be putting some Den memorabilia under the hammer next Wednesday . |
| 11 | Schyns has re-invented the old idea of a wheel with unbalanced spokes . |
| 12 | Francis has aggravated an old groin problem in training , and said : ‘ You can count me out for the next two weeks . ’ |
| 13 | Murphy has recaptured the old form that earned him two honours with the Ulster senior team , winning one inter-provincial championship at Lahinch , in 1986 . |
| 14 | ‘ It was probably something he 'd heard an old actor say , ’ he said . |
| 15 | She was refused entry at the dentist on formal hygiene regulation grounds , and luckily , oh so luckily , I 'd met an old friend in a shop opposite the dentist so he took Bella off for a walk . |
| 16 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 17 | Eyes looking back and I 'd got the old bit moving all the time keeping , he said righto get out , you 're leading me , they were too pleased to get rid of them . |
| 18 | His grandfather 's picture lay in his grandma 's album , two from the end , showing his grandfather wearing his lordship 's livery , in which he 'd driven the old Baron to the coronation of King George VI in 1937 . |
| 19 | Mrs Dass exclaimed softly from her sun-chair in the bow window , and her husband confessed that he 'd found an old set of blackout curtains that were just about right for size . |
| 20 | That morning he 'd revived an old custom . |
| 21 | Or maybe he 'd spotted an old piece of long-forgotten shrapnel . |
| 22 | I 've also had to put an old cat to sleep , and some children from the new estate brought their hamster in . |
| 23 | You must have heard the old story about the bucket of water ; when it was shown to the optimist he described it as being ‘ half full ’ while the pessimist said that it was ‘ half empty ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'll have to see the old man when he gets back . |
| 25 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |
| 26 | Having threatened the old man ( the teacher has continued in this role whenever necessary ) , he agrees to leave his house . |
| 27 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 28 | She managed to escape to the kitchen on the pretext of having seen an old friend heading in that direction . |
| 29 | ‘ Who 'd have thought the old bugger would come to life like that ! ’ she said to Nutty afterwards . |
| 30 | Who would have thought the old man could be so clever ? |