Example sentences of "with his old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In desperation , Nicky was sent by his parents to New York to stay with his older brother . |
| 2 | One day in the summer , young Daniel had gone for a walk along the towpath of a nearby canal with his older brother and two or three other ‘ big boys ’ . |
| 3 | Vernage was jailed with his older brother John in 1987 for his part in a series of pub robberies where landladies and barmaids were brutally raped by John while he watched . |
| 4 | When Machado died in 1706 , Medina succeeded him as contractor for supplying bread and wagons to the land forces of the grand alliance , initially on his own and later in partnership with his older brother , Joseph de Medina of Amsterdam , and with Joseph 's son , Moses . |
| 5 | Besides , he was with his older brother . |
| 6 | He wanted to discuss this English girl with his oldest friend . |
| 7 | The author , Major Goodman , at Southern Command headquarters , with his oldest friend ( then Major ) Jim Gower . |
| 8 | She did not know that Neil 's anger and disgust with his old love had been fuelled more by her unpleasant reference to McAllister than anything else she had said to him . |
| 9 | His raw material consists of Stephen Fry playing Stephen Fry thinly disguised as a throw-back aristo who decides to share his recently inherited stately pile for a few days with his old friends from revue days . |
| 10 | He enjoyed being with his old friends in Jerusalem . |
| 11 | He rarely came into the office , spending most of his time with his old friends waxing lyrical about his splendid son-in-law to be . |
| 12 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm a boody man , ’ he pretended to chase Rose and the children with his old charm . |
| 14 | topped up the coffee with his old man 's scotch |
| 15 | He was due to join up with his old friend Irving Layton again , and former professor F.R. Scott at New York 's prestigious YM/YWCA centre on 92nd Street . |
| 16 | ‘ For Farr , ’ said Lustgarten , ‘ as he laughed and joked with his old friend in the front room of their Wimbledon home , was already planning exactly where his carving knife would skirt the edge of the poisoned breast meat , digging deeper and deeper away from the tainted flesh , so that neither he nor Templeton would suffer . |
| 17 | He replaced Michael Duane with his old friend , Peter Solowka , who was disillusioned with the jobs opened up to him by a degree in environmental biology . |
| 18 | He was the first English king ( as Irish Catholics still considered him ) to visit the country since Richard III in 1394 and when he entered Dublin on 24 March , with his old friend , Tyrconnel , whom James had created a duke , riding before him , he received a rapturous reception , with bells ringing , girls in white scattering flowers in front of him , and the clergy carrying the host in a monstrance . |
| 19 | Last year he won an Oscar for his performance in Good Fellas with his old friend Robert De Niro . |
| 20 | At the time of the murders in the Shrine of Asuryan he was hunting in Chrace with his old friend Koradrel of Chrace . |
| 21 | After two months of almost daily meetings with his old friend , the lawyer felt rather lonely . |
| 22 | Reminiscing recently with his old friend Jimmy Scullion , the father of World champion Andy Scullion , the two men have almost a century of drumming knowledge between them . |
| 23 | Finally , after a spot of hand-shaking outside Tesco , the entourage swept off to the university , where Mr Smith hob-nobbed with his old school friend Prof Ian Gow about management skills — essential for anyone aspiring to No 11 . |
| 24 | However unjust it might be , there are many companies which will be inclined to think twice about recruiting someone who is engaged in a bitter fight with his old firm . |
| 25 | Hamilton will coach in America this summer then study training methods with his old Ipswich Town boss and former England manager Bobby Robson in Lisbon and with another buddy at PSV Eindhoven . |
| 26 | There was a lovely mongrel dog Judy , a yard where the washing was laboriously done with much boiling , quidging and squelching , an oven lit by the fire , outings and picnics and dominoes with Uncle Fred in the park with his old cronies . |
| 27 | Other areas of interest include bingo and ten pin bowling centres , which would bring Mr Irens into competition with his old employers . |
| 28 | None of the movements is less than very well done , but I do miss the blazing splendour of this conductor 's finest Bruckner with his old orchestra , none of which , alas , has made it on to CD . |
| 29 | But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit . |
| 30 | Few could at this stage afford to be as choosy as Fox Milton & Co Ltd when they sacked a new dealer on the grounds that he was dealing with his old Chartwell clients , so enraging Chartwell Securities . " |