Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a week ministers will get their intelligence summary in the ‘ Red Book ’ , all the trouble spots in the world , and one pays clever people like you to actually sit there and be plugged in as best one can to the trouble spots , with much better sources of information than the poor old chap in the street , to alert ministers on our behalf of potential disasters . |
| 2 | So the argument goes , and it certainly looks more radical than the tired old tat of punk — yet it seems just as likely that there is an unconscious impulse to flaunt having in the faces of those who do not . |
| 3 | Now it 's rarely the case that the replacement is actually a better player than the so-called old fellow . |
| 4 | We can for example say that in West Germany erm a worker who 's paid contributions for forty-five years gets an old-age pension that amounts to about seventy-five percent of what he was taking home in take-home pay before he retired , and obviously this looks a much better deal than the British old age pensioner gets . |
| 5 | You 're more deluded even than a dying old fool like me . |
| 6 | Lady Thatcher liked nothing better than a good old ding-dong , whether her opponent was François Mitterrand or Mikhail Gorbachev or King Kong . |
| 7 | Her battered , motley-panelled 2CV had looked out of place in Ascot Square , where I think that anything less than a two-year old Golf GTi , Peugeot 209 or Renault 5 was considered to be only just above banger status , even as a third car , let alone a second . |
| 8 | He was no more to her , he thought , than a tiresome old man , an old fool . |