Example sentences of "come to the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we are very honoured that Mr Austin has bred a rose just for us — a perfect beauty , the closest he has ever come to the old Alba rose , beloved of Redouté , and going back 2,000 years beyond him . |
| 2 | She ran along the line , stumbling over the planks , until she came to the old pit and the line of empty skips . |
| 3 | Eventually we came to the Old Mill area where there were no railings at the waterside , making the mill pond quite a frightening place for small children . |
| 4 | Then she swam along the bank until she came to the old pontoon . |
| 5 | But when we came to the Old Town , the Marshal and Sapt moved nearer to my horse , and I could see that they were afraid for me . |
| 6 | Perhaps the first thing that strikes us as we come to the Old Testament is the tremendous emphasis on the Spirit of God as a violent , invading force . |
| 7 | Proceeding from Princes Street along Waterloo Place on comes to the Old Calton Burial Ground where there is a memorial to the Chartists ; the tombs of the philosopher David Hume and Archibald Constable , Sir Walter Scott 's publisher ; and a monument to Abraham Lincoln . |
| 8 | Caledor II comes to the Old World to supervise the defeat of the Dwarf kings . |