Example sentences of "in the old [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleanor Thorne had been thin , even then , but an upright woman , straight as a twig , straight in the old way they were all taught , books on heads , stiff-corseted . |
| 2 | In the old factory it was just all like home market , what they call home market , it 's the same |
| 3 | That 's fine , erm what sort I mean what are we , are we back in back in the old problems we 've had before with or is it written in something else ? |
| 4 | But mostly he was at home in the old church you know . |
| 5 | ‘ In the old times we hijras used to be like your zero zero seven . |
| 6 | In the Old World they have a counterpart in the form of the strange , scaly anteaters , the pangolins . |
| 7 | In the Old World we are familiar with such large hunters as wolves , dogs , hyenas , and the big cats — lions , tigers , leopards and cheetahs . |
| 8 | Although this technique has a long ancestry in the Old World it was unknown in the Americas until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century . |
| 9 | When she woke up that morning , with just a small hope in the corner of her heart , she found Patsy already awake , sitting upright in the old cot they still shared , his dark brown eyes shining with excitement from under his mop of brown hair . |
| 10 | Dressed in the old coat she always wore , she was walking fast . |
| 11 | there were five red and gold crackers on the starched , white cloth and all the presents were ready in the old pillowcases they 'd all used for years at Christmas . |
| 12 | Later in the Old Testament we are told how Job , robbed of everything , at first reacts by declaring , ‘ The Lord gave , and the Lord has taken away ; blessed be the name of the Lord ’ ( Job 1.21 ) . |
| 13 | The word translated ‘ God ’ is plural in form , and though in the vast majority of its occurrences in the Old Testament it means ‘ God ’ , it can equally well mean ‘ gods ’ , or ‘ divine or supernatural beings ’ , including river demons and evil spirits of the night . |
| 14 | In the old cells you had to take a bucket of water in , get a wash , and then wash your underwear in it , in the same bucket . |
| 15 | She had walked fast , comfortable in the old corset she had firmly told Lyddy was quite sufficient for visiting the Rectory children , and as she passed the church , the clock struck three sonorously into the still afternoon air . |
| 16 | ‘ In the old days we should have thrown a guinea-fowl or a few warthog piglets in , too . |
| 17 | In the old days we got on with the job , jollied staff along if they needed it , kicked the sluggards in the backside , encouraged the unconfident and persuaded a reluctant and sceptical police force to use us . |
| 18 | ‘ In the old days we could rely on the same spectators attending match after match , whatever the weather or the results . |
| 19 | In the old days we simply could n't afford to do that . |
| 20 | In the old days we simply could n't afford to do that . |
| 21 | In the old days we used to have very inefficient coal fires , burning in open grates , which to produce a reasonable heat used a significant amount of fuel . |
| 22 | No one had ever seen a bride or groom walk to their wedding ; even the very poor found a car for that day and in the old days they had gone by trap or sidecar . |
| 23 | In the old days they would be feeding the poor at the castle gate . |
| 24 | In the old days they carried twenty-four horses in a car , but there was no centre aisle , eh ? |
| 25 | In the old days they all played cards . |
| 26 | And of course in the old days they just were n't available because they were n't on the market . |
| 27 | Our ships may be small , Mr. Mottram , but in the old days they were liners — that is , they made regular , scheduled runs from various ports on the Continent to the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | ‘ In the old days they 'd have thumped enough into him to get him through his exam . |
| 29 | Ah ha , but in the old days they used to have |
| 30 | In the old days they used to have little houses close together called begins with T |