Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went up to the bedroom and gazed at the old four-poster , hardly noticing the faded splendour of its blue and gold canopy as she scrutinised the decorated wooden frieze that ran along the top . |
| 2 | And the peedie fairy came back and lived with the old wife been afore . |
| 3 | Over at Galaxy Crossroads 5 , they see the place where Johnson paused to have an Embassy Mild and a can of Fosters , and bumped into an old nutter who thought he was the devil . |
| 4 | Dunne belonged to ‘ the military section of Britain 's old upper class ’ , as J. B. Priestley [ q.v. ] , who based Time and the Conways ( 1937 ) on his interpretation of Dunne 's theory , was to recall ; ‘ he looked and behaved like the old regular officer type crossed with a mathematician and an engineer . ’ |
| 5 | I used to go along to Greenbank Hospital 's geriatric wards , where I sang and played to the old folk . |
| 6 | But once at the School , in his own place and with his daily occupation , he began to think again of this dream woman , and added to the old notion of what she should be , which Diana had personified , was an idea of her as his rescuer , as someone who would save him and make him whole again . |
| 7 | I went to sleep that afternoon fully dressed , and I did n't wake up until seven forty-five P.M. I washed and changed my clothes , and walked through the old part of the city with its strange , crouch-backed , medieval buildings , like a Hollywood set built for Garbo . |
| 8 | Reaching Georgia Street I turned right and walked past the old Hotel Vancouver to the Hotel Georgia . |
| 9 | Kate neatly side-stepped him , and walked into the old farmhouse . |
| 10 | She stood up and grinned at the old man who owed her his life . |
| 11 | Mike pushed the papers back across the desk and looked at the Old Man , who raised his eyebrows questioningly . |
| 12 | The child stared towards it as if in recognition of something held in memory ; then she turned and looked at the old woman , who was sitting on the couch unlacing her boots , and she said , ‘ You have a garden . ’ |
| 13 | Monks hesitated and looked at the old man , but Mr Brownlow 's expression was so serious and determined that the younger man realized it was pointless to protest . |
| 14 | Well I 'd one come from Malta to England again , in nineteen sixteen and went on an old boat , they called it the Gurkha . |
| 15 | With that goes a rejection of the corrupted language and thought of the old politics . |
| 16 | He read his plays again , and he and I talked and laughed about the old days . |
| 17 | As it happened , in the first book , Mrs Curdle paid her final visit to the place , but her grandson Ben took over the fair and continued in the old lady 's footsteps for several years . |
| 18 | Gathering her courage together , she descended from the gig and waited for the old man to precede her across the porch . |