Example sentences of "old [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weapon was old as the world and deadly as poison , a shard of the fatal weapon forged by Vaul himself for the death god Khaela-Mensha-Khaine , a fragment of crystallised death capable of slaying daemons and gods alike . |
| 2 | However , those of us too old for the elite ‘ Pirates ’ or ‘ Club 16 ’ need not feel left out . |
| 3 | ‘ She says she is willing to work all her days just to keep a little home of her own ’ , yet she also felt ‘ too old for the work . ’ |
| 4 | Inelligible for the Enterprise Allowance Scheme , and at 28 too old for the Prince 's Trust , she eventually got a grant from the Westminster Enterprise Agency . |
| 5 | Never unemployed , she is ineligible for the Enterprise Allowance and , at 28 , too old for the Prince 's Youth Business Trust . |
| 6 | I 'll be unemployed and too old for the dole ! |
| 7 | But nobody could get the movie made at that time , and the question now was whether Val was n't too old for the part . |
| 8 | So too does Rosalind Russell ; perhaps she sounds a little old for the part , but her dry tones give her numbers a splendidly acerbic edge . |
| 9 | You are old for the boy . ’ |
| 10 | Sir Michael , 56 , last month launched a biting attack on BBC chairman Duke Hussey , claiming he was too old for the job at 69 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've reached the top of my profession , and am almost getting too old for the job , anyway . |
| 12 | He was far too old for the party . |
| 13 | Joan is growing old for the time being . |
| 14 | Actually , Voight is rather too old for the role , and overdoes the wide-eyed innocence , especially in the last twenty minutes when the movie gets as soft as an overripe Florida plum . |
| 15 | The President of the DAR chapter was old for the gangcult game , twenty-three or -four . |
| 16 | The mother 's objection was not found to be unreasonable and no suggestion was made to allow adoption with a condition of access so as not to deprive the ten year old of the security that goes with adoption compared to long-term foster care . |
| 17 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 18 | The witches are apparently a representation of the triple goddess : one looks old like the crone , another is the mother and the third is supposedly the Virgin because she carries her rag doll around with her . |
| 19 | Then , I do n't know how many years we had down the street , but we moved when I was about six years old up the street near the church . |
| 20 | We let the day grow old along the grass . |
| 21 | Some companies have an automatic deletion of all e-mail messages more than three months old with the proviso that any important messages can be taken out and incorporated into a formal , structured system ( for example , a word processing system or individual accounts ) if that message needs to be retained or is a key part of another , more important story . |
| 22 | We should not be misled by any temptation to assume that what we are dealing with here is the familiar disposition of many words , mentioned above , to vary in their referential effect according to the standard considered relevant for the type of the noun ; as if , to take the last sentence in ( 34 ) it was simply a matter of adjusting our standard of what counts as old from the range suitable for schools to the smaller one which is appropriate to individual human beings . |
| 23 | There is little point in denying that if Britain is to enable the very old in the present as well as the future to live out their remaining years in dignity , more human and material resources will have to be devoted to their welfare . |
| 24 | WHAT was it like to grow old in the past in Britain ? |
| 25 | One Cabinet colleague surveying the scene murmured to me : ‘ There is no way that I am going to grow old in the service of this House . ’ |
| 26 | He has grown old in the service of several Emperors . |
| 27 | John and Elizabeth Newson found in their 1976 study Seven Years Old in the Home Environment , that two-thirds of their sample of Nottingham seven-year-olds fought sometimes or often with their siblings , and half of these ( girls as well as boys ) actually came to blows fairly regularly . |
| 28 | In Four years old in an urban community ( 1968 ) and Seven years old in the home environment ( 1976 ) , we are given a detailed picture of the domestic background of a group of young readers and young non-readers , perhaps readers and non-readers in the making . |
| 29 | I also wonder , seeing that I am not too old in the tooth , how many other wartime fishing kids are still around and as fishing daft as ever . |
| 30 | Several hundred women remained employed in Edinburgh printing houses , but they were destined to grow old in the job , with no girl apprentices joining them . |