Example sentences of "and [v-ing] the old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got to Nelly 's the fire was low , but while she was collecting newspapers I filled the kettle and using the old leather bellows stoked up the heat . |
| 2 | Stories were told of whole communities sitting down and wailing the old tune whilst waiting for the slave masters to arrive and incarcerate their bodies and souls . |
| 3 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 4 | He was rapidly proved right ; Spain pledged herself in December to a Family Compact with France , forcing England , on 2 January 1762 , to declare war on her and reviving the old nightmare of a joint Franco-Spanish fleet sweeping up the Channel to land a papist army on English soil . |
| 5 | Yesterday they each sentenced him — for six years for leading a gang rape attack on the 14-year-old , and for five years consecutively for raping and robbing the older girl . |
| 6 | But I can remember my father coming back from the death bed and saying the old man was babbling about a grandson . |
| 7 | The village straddles the coast road and includes a row of coastguard cottages , an ancient manor house ( where Oliver Cromwell once stayed and claiming the oldest section of wallpaper in the country ) , and the most interesting New Inn ; a large uncommonly tall building for this area . |
| 8 | Once in power , she immediately set about turning the clock back to 1529 by returning England to papal jurisdiction , restoring Catholic forms of worship , and reintroducing the old heresy laws . |
| 9 | This shows change by sign.posting the new route and leaving the old route intact . |
| 10 | Sucker top growth is often called briar in the case of roses , after the name by which the wild rose was known , and following the old practice of using rooted briar stems dug out of hedgerows for budding and grafting — at one time this was one of the chief occupations of gypsies , who would ‘ hawk ’ them by the bundle around less reputable nurseries . |
| 11 | Three months later she was still there , sleeping on the sofa , and hitting the old man with his own walking stick . |