Example sentences of "they [vb past] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is this the boy ? ’ they asked the old gentleman . |
| 2 | They passed the old wreck of the SS Lancastria , Campbeltown steering 050 degrees to offset the tide 's strong northerly set , and reduced speed to 10 knots , the MGB 's echo-sounder probing for some depth of water as the destroyer twice churned over mud-bars . |
| 3 | Then they sold the old market to Citicorp which set about restoring it as a trading floor , aimed at meeting the demand generated by Big Bang . |
| 4 | Boswell observes that when the clans were disarmed after Culloden , they used the old broadsword as covers for their buttermilk barrels : ‘ a kind of change , ’ he says , ‘ like beating spears into pruning-hooks ’ ; swords turned sadly into ploughshares . |
| 5 | They buried the old man . |
| 6 | They told the old lady what had happened . |
| 7 | They told the old woman to do her work and then hurry after them . |
| 8 | They reiterated the old CEB faith in the imperatives of central technical control , and brushed aside potential gains from decentralisation , but themselves maintained a very weak financial control over the divisions . |
| 9 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 10 | One day then they discovered the old apple orchard , what does that mean ? |
| 11 | and they knocked the old farmhouse , they had a house and the farmhouse , they had a farmhouse you know and |
| 12 | Auntie Kate , as they called the old wife , proved ‘ a dear old soul , and of course the old boy , he used to tell us all stories about over the sea . ’ |
| 13 | A stream of other relatives followed , and from the shadows they watched the old man touch each of the tall red candles surrounding the portrait with a lighted taper ; when four tiny buds of flames bloomed above the altar he sank to his knees and pressed his palms together . |
| 14 | So they sang the old hymns with tears in their eyes and an ache of pride in their hearts . |
| 15 | They perpetuated the old traditions in new ways . |
| 16 | When they took the old oven out , I brought the cooker down myself , and the fittings for the kitchen units . |
| 17 | And they saw the Old Bill nicking us and letting the coons go . |
| 18 | They used to giggle and splutter when they saw the old man , thinking of him sitting on a toadstool in the moonlight . |
| 19 | that is , until they saw the old man 's face , |
| 20 | Everywhere he found the same thing : elderly employees , attempting to run things as they thought the old baron would have wanted , out of touch with new ideas , fearful of taking any decision on their own , and consequently stalling , allowing problems to build up . |
| 21 | When they reached the old farmhouse she handed him the fare , absent-mindedly giving him a tip that was at least treble the size she would normally have made , barely aware of his delighted grin as she made her way towards the kitchen |
| 22 | His new Food and Beverage Manager is in favour , but the idea was resisted by the original departmental heads , who made it clear that they preferred the old system . |
| 23 | Another month passed while they continued the old routines before company orders revealed that they were to march south to the Marne and prepare for a counter-attack against General von Ludendorff . |
| 24 | They quoted the old woman who announced outside the Old Bailey that ‘ he got what he deserved ’ . |
| 25 | Officers have said they tolerated the old conditions for too long . |
| 26 | They closed the old door behind them and there I was , alone with a few dozen stiffs . |