Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julie smiled , remembering the times she and her friends had hidden in the old shed during hilarious games of hide and seek and sardines . |
| 2 | If Richard had heard about the old Angevin claim when he began work on a castle within the political orbit of Châtellerault he probably thought it had long since lapsed . |
| 3 | He had heard about the Old Magic at University , although it was forbidden to wizards . |
| 4 | She had also caught the very faint remnant of warmth , gaiety , that he thought no-one but himself had recognized from the old days . |
| 5 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 6 | Theda had drawn the curtain about the four-poster open , and the light from her candle had fallen on the old lady 's face . |
| 7 | Along with the name came the Servite Fathers who had officiated at the old church . |
| 8 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 9 | He confessed that everyone trusted him now , as they had done in the old days . |
| 10 | Sadness far the way he had felt about the old man blended with a sense that his childhood was irrecoverably lost , and the knowledge that the very past when it was in flight Lived , like the present , in continual death . |
| 11 | By this time the trial of Mrs Dyer had moved to the Old Bailey . |
| 12 | It was as though I had died to the old way — and yet I was alive in a new kind of way . |
| 13 | He found he had drawn a noose , remembered how Sandy Riverton had died inside the old bell tower , scribbled it out before Newman could see it . |
| 14 | Holly had talked with the old man and realized only later that when he spoke all those who were within earshot had listened and tried to learn about him from his words . |
| 15 | Speaking of the Commonwealth at the time of Dunkirk in 1940 , Churchill had talked of the old lion with her lion-cubs about her , and a lion that had beaten a unicorn must have ancient strengths that Modernism and Bloomsbury alike between the wars had failed to acknowledge or to note . |
| 16 | They had met a fortnight after Meg 's arrival when Alice had called at the Old Rectory with a suitcase of jumble for the annual sale in aid of St Andrew 's Church in Lydsett . |
| 17 | He had walked through the old city with the guard a dozen paces behind . |
| 18 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 19 | Perhaps because of this he contrived to fight on even after his brothers had surrendered to the Old King . |
| 20 | A world that had hoped for the old uprightness , not for the collective cowardice of Colonel John Stephenson and his spineless masters on the International Cricket Council . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | What had happened to the old thrifty , puritanical streak which Middle America had inherited from the pioneers ? |
| 23 | But now what had happened to the old guard was happening to him , too . |
| 24 | What had happened to the old Taheb ? |
| 25 | He studied at the University of Oxford at a time when Colet had thrown off the old method of scholastic teaching , which consisted of repeating the comments of previous interpreters of the Bible , and instead , in his lectures on St Paul 's Epistles , was explaining their historic background and expounding their spiritual truths . |
| 26 | And soon afterwards , in the first week of their marriage , Dostoevsky showed her the stone under which Raskolnikov hid the stuff he had taken from the old moneylender . |
| 27 | Her father had lived at the Old Parsonage at Wouldham and had 10 children . |
| 28 | Already weak and exposed where Midnight was concerned , this unexpected consideration broke down the last of the barriers Jess had constructed against the old woman . |
| 29 | Rory had waited with the older man — silent for quarter of an hour apart from a whispered hello and a quick explanation of what was going on — until the herd of deer appeared , brown shapes on the brown hill . |
| 30 | The large-scale youth unemployment coincided with a collapse in apprenticeship schemes as industry , in recession , withdrew its support for the part-time vocational courses that were the stock-in-trade of the further education colleges , many of whom had evolved from the old mechanics institutes . |