Example sentences of "in my old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up my books and stuffed them away in my old school satchel , the one my father — Tata — had given me when I won my open scholarship to St Paul 's . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't want to sleep in my old bed , ’ she whispered . |
| 3 | And the only thing I need to ask you about is that bloody great , bloody great memo , I 've said it so I 'll say it again it 's pinned up in my old tutor 's room what do you want me to put down on the document for the record of achievement on attendance ? |
| 4 | While my mother was away I decided to take a trip myself , and took refuge in my old home town , South Shields , now changed almost unrecognizably . |
| 5 | I would like to be in my old home in the Wallowa country . |
| 6 | My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died . |
| 7 | I , I wo n't take up long , much of your time , I just did n't want anyone to think that I had er given up in my old position not to be a no doubt , I believe other measures could have been taken . |
| 8 | Shall I tell you what I saw in my old man 's garden shed last summer ? |
| 9 | Wish you were cos you could go in my old man 's place . |
| 10 | One evening in December I gently pushed open the old kitchen door , and there , sitting by the fire next to Joe , in my old place , was — Pip ! |
| 11 | In my old office . |
| 12 | Cos the machines in my old office all of them , all the five and a quarters agree both types . |
| 13 | Instead I closed him out , continued without him and became absorbed in my old routine . |
| 14 | In my old group , they just took it upon themselves to clean it every now and again . |
| 15 | I want to sleep in my old room , so what I do is take the mattress and stick it back in my old room . |
| 16 | I want to sleep in my old room , so what I do is take the mattress and stick it back in my old room . |
| 17 | When I see I 'm in my old room , I remember Marie 's gone . |
| 18 | Soon I was in my old room , with its creaky Victorian furniture , looking out of the tall window at the Dublin traffic . |
| 19 | But I suppose I must have told them how things were between me and Richard because as I lay on my bed , in my old room , I heard Aunt Lilian telephoning . |
| 20 | sitting on the bed in my old room last night , I found I could n't work out how I felt about Hilda dying . |
| 21 | When he was only twenty , people found him ‘ an odd fellow , a bear , a young man out of the ordinary ’ ; and even before his epileptic seizure and confinement at Croisset , the image had established itself : ‘ I am a bear and I want to stay a bear in my den , in my lair , in my skin , in my old bear 's skin ; I want to live quietly , far away from the bourgeois and the bourgeoises . |
| 22 | Having said that , even in my old Cub I used to suffer the same fate on occasion . |
| 23 | I left the one I had in my old Bible at home . ’ |
| 24 | I know now I 'd never have caught up in time in my old car . |
| 25 | I have nt got the cards in my old catalogue . |
| 26 | The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy . |
| 27 | Only now , in my old age , I wish I had got down from the table and put my arms round his neck and kissed him . |
| 28 | In my old age the very idea of coping with agents , tenants , taxes , VAT , the Ministry of Agriculture , local authorities and demands all along the line , appals . |
| 29 | All I have , in my old age . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps I am becoming too gullible in my old age . |