Example sentences of "in a [adj] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second group arrived in a banged-up old Ford Cortina , which was now hidden in the lean-to barn behind the house . |
| 2 | In the centre of the room was a stone chair on a raised dais , and it contained a slumped figure which did not move but said , in a brittle old voice , ‘ Come in , young man . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's in a right old mess . ’ |
| 4 | In a right old state |
| 5 | ‘ They 're getting in a right old frenzy . |
| 6 | I went to the recruitin' office in a right old temper and I joined up there and then . |
| 7 | ‘ In a right old sweat he was , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee tranquilly . |
| 8 | He 's in a right old stew . |
| 9 | The rumour going round college is that the body was in a right old mess . ’ |
| 10 | It was on the slope of the gardens in a tiny old place built by the previous ( Qajar ) dynasty . |
| 11 | The model agency office was in a tall old house in Clifton and Paula splashed out some of her savings on a taxi so that she could at least arrive in style . |
| 12 | Do you have something to put the strength back in a poor old woman ? ’ |
| 13 | The Cluanie Inn is a fine hotel in a splendid old building , which has been extended in recent years so sensitively , soon it will be difficult for passers-by to tell the old from the new . |
| 14 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 15 | Curtain up in a grand old Belfast tradition |
| 16 | HOMELESS baby Heidi Grady is living in a rusty old Toyota in a public car park … right under the nose of the council which refuses to house her . |
| 17 | It was also first time she had been back to Earth since being drafted into Spacefleet , escaping , and running for the stars in a clapped-out old trading ship owned by a clapped-out old trader . |
| 18 | Leaning back in a creaky old chair in a Padstow café , faced with yet another cream tea was the perfect way to round off a fabulous week 's backpacking on part of the South West Coast Path . |
| 19 | ‘ I flew there in a rickety old aeroplane with standing room only . |
| 20 | And one woman made a dramatic exit from the scene in a rickety old ambulance which sped her along winding dusty roads to the local hospital . |
| 21 | They put Jenny [ Phil 's wife ] in a grotty old side ward so that she did n't upset any other of the patients , no one come in and tell us anything . |
| 22 | However well charted the world may be there is still adventure , danger and hardship for some travellers to endure : Christina Dodwell experienced ‘ cold terror ’ while crossing the rapids of the Laigap River in Papua New Guinea ; Dervla Murphy survived an attack by wolves and several rape attempts ; Rosie Atkins , travelling round the world with her husband and two children , was trapped overnight in a battered old coach by a landslide in Ladakh . |
| 23 | In those days the washing was done in a good old copper boiling on a Monday and light the fire underneath it and this sort of thing . |
| 24 | I 'm not interested in a poxy old bike ! |
| 25 | In a rambling old house in Gospel Oak . |
| 26 | The last work of literature to be prosecuted for obscenity in a full-blooded Old Bailey trial was an undistinguished paperback entitled " Inside Linda Lovelace " . |
| 27 | It is a fine place in a delightful old palazzo . |
| 28 | One of these is run in a large old house in its own grounds in North London which has been used as a private Mother and Baby Home since the late 1920s . |
| 29 | She lived in a big old tenement block . |
| 30 | ‘ He lives in a big old house , a long way from anywhere . |