Example sentences of "up the old [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 2 | Dawley ( 1963 ) , later expanded and renamed Telford , situated between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury , was to accommodate pressure from the West Midlands , but it also served the purpose of tidying up the old mining and industrial area of Oakengates and Wellington . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh , actor , director and entrepreneur , has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 5 | Right at the beginning of his book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , in the first chapter called ‘ Renaissance : self-definition or self-deception ’ , he takes up the old idea that the Renaissance was the expression of a specific ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 6 | Some of the villages on the edge of the Baronnies look all too spruce , as if the locals had by now given way completely to immigrants wealthier than themselves , who are buying up the old houses and adding new , sometimes crassly intrusive ones . |
| 7 | Yanto realised he might well have to make a special journey to pick up the old man if Julie happened to be out . |
| 8 | Why not , my wife says , knock a hole through the boys ' bedroom wall , pinch a three foot six strip off it and make a new landing passage and extend the walk-in cupboard , forward to take up the old landing and sideways to build a space out to the main part of the stairs . |
| 9 | Under the Brady deal , the banks that made these swaps were asked to tear up the old loans and choose among three new deals in their place . |
| 10 | He picked up the old shawl and straw hat too . |