Example sentences of "have [verb] the old [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dale is dominated at its lower end by two scars , Great Coum and Combe Scar , both carved out by the passing glaciers , while the sweeping fells of Barbondale mark the point at which the Dent fault has thrust the older Silurian gritstones thousands of feet above their original bed . |
| 2 | He has used the old classical forms in the suite so that the music is reminiscent sometimes of Mozart , sometimes of Bach , or Handel , or Gluck . |
| 3 | This has replaced the old portable harmonium so familiar to former generations of service personnel . |
| 4 | With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments . |
| 5 | It is not clear whether the transition from one quite understandable activity to another that would have made the old commercial librarians blush even to contemplate ( one thinks of Day 's library ticket with its ‘ Scarce books and books out of print carefully searched for ’ ) was simply a question of the slippery slope in a semi-literate world . |
| 6 | Central Asia is acknowledge by most authorities as the most likely birthplace of the oriental rug , and the Turkoman nomads , who have inhabited the region for millennia , are generally accepted as having inherited the oldest pile-weaving tradition still in existence . |
| 7 | Devoutness seems to have drawn the old satiric sting . |
| 8 | The Israelis had turned the old Arab buildings south of the serail into a shopping and restaurant precinct , a tastefully laid out tourist attraction in which the best architectural features have been preserved . |
| 9 | you 've got the old fucking tits and all have n't you . |
| 10 | We 've got children into young adulthood , depends ; we 've got the young mature ; we 've got the old mature ; we 've got the elderly . |
| 11 | And to achieve this , they 've brought the old British League points limit for forty six down to forty erm that 's made an awful problem for the British League clubs . |
| 12 | Muhammad believed that he had to reform the old pagan religion of al-Llah , the High God of the Arabs . |
| 13 | Most important were the Free Democrats ( 12 per cent ) , who had inherited the old Liberal mantle . |
| 14 | The profound changes in the economy and society which had swept the old feudal practices away were for Marx and Engels merely an expression of the profound changes which had first taken place in the mode of production . |
| 15 | And we 've increased the old British League by four , and equalled the two Leagues out , so we should see erm quite some interesting speedway this year . |
| 16 | Then , in 1210 , after Otto had revived the old imperial policies in Italy and had begun to oppress the Church , Innocent turned once more to Philip Augustus . |
| 17 | This evening we have seen the old familiar Labour party of intervention , protectionism and high prices . |
| 18 | The cottages have recently been modernised and windows have replaced the old front doors . |
| 19 | Since then I have replaced the old leaky fuel pump which has given me a perplexing problem . |