Example sentences of "have an old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be willing to pay for any books or copies or , if anyone has an old machine that could be used for spares , I am desperate for these bits . |
| 2 | Unfortunately my driving licence has an old address on so I am sending you a copy of my vehicle registration form which does include my present address . |
| 3 | The hotel is quiet and has an old style elegant atmosphere . |
| 4 | ‘ Alcudia has an old harbour , a very fine beach and the old village was built near the site of a Roman settlement — and there 's a museum . |
| 5 | David Damiani has an old photograph of him , a slightly pompous-looking man in a top hat surrounded by some Jerusalem worthies and an Englishman or two . |
| 6 | would rather have an old man . |
| 7 | I thought there might be somewhere where they 'd have an old circular saw you know , probably got a bit more chance with help , but they do a bit of rough cutting do you know what I mean ? |
| 8 | and Town could have an old favourite back in their side for that match |
| 9 | I thought Mrs Kettering must have an old father who wrote somewhere about the place . ’ |
| 10 | He might find it useful having an old man like me around to give him a few tips on how to manage horses . ’ |
| 11 | I remember we used to have an old Labrador cross that used to sleep under the kitchen table , till it finally gave up and died . |
| 12 | She was certainly still young enough to play with children , but , in a way , she seemed to have an old head on those shoulders . |
| 13 | Our new kitchen is not ultra-modern because I wanted it to have an old look and homely feel . |
| 14 | We used to have an old teacher , a great fellow , named Mr Davies who taught us woodwork . |
| 15 | The ball of fluff had an old hag 's face in the middle of it , with two slowly blinking eyes and a huge hooked nose . |
| 16 | We could n't bring her into the house because we had an old cat and we had no spare kennels , so that just left the caravan . |
| 17 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 18 | The last time I saw you , you had an old Gretsch which you were thinking of getting rid of … |
| 19 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 20 | In the years that followed , his mother 's friends would often comment that he had an old head on young shoulders . |
| 21 | I was afraid of getting an arrow in my eyes , but I suddenly remembered I still had an old pair of reading glasses in my pocket , so I put them on and continued my work . |
| 22 | ‘ We had an old tom cat who used to take the fish — ’ |
| 23 | The Romans had an old tradition of chronicling which was kept in the hands of aristocratic pontiffs . |
| 24 | I had an old camping van that I lived in during tournaments , and he chose to go with me in it for a meal in Chinatown in Liverpool . |
| 25 | They bought a tumbledown Victorian terraced house near the Elephant and Castle , cheap because it had an old man as a sitting tenant on the top floor . |
| 26 | I mentioned that the man I had spoken to had an old check suit and a limp . |
| 27 | He had an old brew house there and on the side of the sink there I built a good staunch bench about like that square , put a vice on it you know . |
| 28 | George had an old kitchen chair brought from the boatshed . |
| 29 | I did n't sleep in my father 's bunk I used to sleep on the table , I er had an old flock mattress , that 's what I had , an old flock mattress and a flock pillow . |
| 30 | We had an old inspector , a Manx man , he used to laugh when he saw them coming in with the blood pouring down their heads , fighting and everything . |