Example sentences of "had [verb] to the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the worst of it all was , Kate was the one who had to listen to the old sod ! |
| 2 | By this time the trial of Mrs Dyer had moved to the Old Bailey . |
| 3 | It was as though I had died to the old way — and yet I was alive in a new kind of way . |
| 4 | Perhaps because of this he contrived to fight on even after his brothers had surrendered to the Old King . |
| 5 | Fran exchanged pleasantries with her , curbing her impatience before finally asking if she knew where Luke had gone , and went weak with relief when the other woman informed her that he had gone to the old college . |
| 6 | What had happened to the old thrifty , puritanical streak which Middle America had inherited from the pioneers ? |
| 7 | But now what had happened to the old guard was happening to him , too . |
| 8 | What had happened to the old Taheb ? |
| 9 | In a sense , then , little had changed , as the managers had to resort to the old method of cajoling the workforce to extract maximum effort . |