Example sentences of "in the old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hawk installed in the old bicycle shed , Jed moved into Upper VI . |
| 2 | Julie smiled , remembering the times she and her friends had hidden in the old shed during hilarious games of hide and seek and sardines . |
| 3 | THE FIRST SEMI-AUTOMATIC PRINTER AT CARNO IN THE OLD SHED ( 1967 ) . |
| 4 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 5 | It was as if he was playing an elaborate game , and had to wait there until it was finished ; they did the same when they played Roundheads and Cavaliers in the old quarry . |
| 6 | Now she was in Dorcas 's workspace under a bench in the old quarry garage . |
| 7 | ‘ Even a flush WC in the old washhouse an ‘ all . |
| 8 | In 1764 Thomas Paine was posted to Alford to work in the Excise Office which was housed in the old Windmill Inn in the market place . |
| 9 | The essence of it is summed up in the old proverb : " Give a man a fish and he is satisfied for a day : teach him how to fish and he will be satisfied for the rest of his life . " |
| 10 | Elsewhere in the Old Master section a group of rare School of Fontainebleau prints by Davent , Fantuzzi and others had only mixed success due to strong estimates . |
| 11 | Despite two major disappointments in the Old Master section of the sale , Christie 's were pleased with the results of their two-day Spanish sale on 28 and 29 May which covered a wide range of categories including jewellery , ceramics , frames , carpets , arms , books and Old Master , modern and contemporary pictures . |
| 12 | The forty-one lots in the Old Master pictures section made £4.5 million , a gratifying total according to Charles Beddington , Head of Old Master Paintings , who pointed particularly to the strength of bidding for works estimated at less than £500,000 . |
| 13 | in the old pit baths |
| 14 | During the period from the mid-'60s to the mid-'70s , while there were closures and redundancies in most regions , deindustrialization was most marked in the old manufacturing areas . |
| 15 | Most of today 's moneyed people were jumped-up and took no interest in the old way of life . |
| 16 | Eleanor Thorne had been thin , even then , but an upright woman , straight as a twig , straight in the old way they were all taught , books on heads , stiff-corseted . |
| 17 | He said his wife was struck down , was inconsolable in the old way . |
| 18 | For his coronation he did not just go to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in the old way , but dressed up in Frankish costume for the occasion . |
| 19 | ‘ They say , we know you ca n't continue in the old way , ’ he says , but until now there has been no alternative . |
| 20 | The hotel and its newly dug garden are protected from the winds and passing cows by a handsome new stone wall made in the old way — using the enormous smooth round boulders that litter the fields as if a giant 's child had grown bored with a game of marbles . |
| 21 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 22 | It was good housewifery , performed in the old way . |
| 23 | MacArthur deemed it vital that ‘ if and when the Japanese are permitted an army that it not be run by the ‘ old crowd ’ and in the old way but that , as Colonel Babcock put it , be a ‘ democratic army ’ . |
| 24 | For a while she behaved wisely or cunningly — by allowing her ministers to give formal recognition to the ways of the reformed church on condition that she herself was allowed to worship in the old way in the privacy of her own chapel at Holyrood . |
| 25 | It is interesting to note that when an epergne stood on the table , there were no creams , jellies , or syllabubs in glasses mentioned in the dessert course , but Lady Grisell herself did not possess such an ornament and for her own dinners still served " sweetmeats and jelly and sillibubs " , curds and cream , pears and apples , " pistaches and scorcht almonds , Bisket round the milk " in the old way in separate dishes , in glasses on footed salvers , and in sweetmeat glasses . |
| 26 | Can it be that one day , off it goes on , that one day I simply stayed in , in where , instead of going out , in the old way , out to spend day and night as far away as possible , it was n't far . |
| 27 | Amateurs , on the other hand , have continued to pursue local studies in the old way . |
| 28 | ‘ Mind you , some of the older officers get us to do a back-up report in the old way , ’ Chiodini told him . |
| 29 | He watched attentively , noting every frown , every look of puzzlement , every last betraying blink or twitch in the old man 's face , anxious to gauge the depth of his feelings . |
| 30 | The major saw a coldness in the old man 's face . |