Example sentences of "to [pron] [adj] old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Still bringing wages home to me dear old mum , ’ said Joe , who spent the occasional weekend with his parents in their Chatham home and was always there at Christmas . |
| 2 | In the meantime it ‘ s back to my trusty old microphone . |
| 3 | Jay had asked her over to show her off to her four oldest friends . |
| 4 | Anyway , she seemed to cheer up a bit listening to their trite old remarks about it coming to everybody , and after that her mother had been all right and seemed to accept it . |
| 5 | They may need one if Charlton 's long-awaited return to their famous old ground , after seven years in exile , is to go ahead against Portsmouth on Saturday . |
| 6 | Unfortunately they went back to their bad old ways during the autumn in the championship , but they have now regained that hungry look which can only spell trouble for their rivals . |
| 7 | Of course , that leaves us with the problem raised in the first chapter — the extent to which such old people feel they are no longer able to engage in transactions which benefit others as well as themselves . |
| 8 | The extent to which particular old people can control their behaviour and to which certain actions are an expression of hostility is problematic . |
| 9 | No , not a Test cricketer leaving on tour , but Graham , disgraced schoolmaster , to his 18-year old boyfriend and cricket club team-mate Stephen . |
| 10 | For a time he disported himself on stage like some hell-fire preacher , but since then the message of his songs has been more mixed again : even returning , sometimes , to his great old theme of disaffected love . |
| 11 | Letters written to his seven-year old son show the story taking shape . |
| 12 | Then he telephoned Richie , whom he tracked down to his own old office at Royalbion House . |
| 13 | You ca n't go to your stuffy old church today . |
| 14 | Its main raison d'etre is to let you do silly , impressive and even downright offensive things to your boring old Windows icons and the desktop . |
| 15 | I found among my mother 's papers when she died a letter from my grandfather which must have wrung her heart for years after his death : ‘ … ca n't you spare a moment to write to your poor old Dad … ‘ |
| 16 | Come on let's have a listen to you and see what you 're doing to your poor old self . |
| 17 | Let's have a listen to you and see what you 're doing to your poor old self . |
| 18 | Let's see what you 're doing to your poor old self . |
| 19 | Why not act and go round to your local old people 's home — it will be within walking distance — and take your children with you . |