Example sentences of "he [vb past] old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another he found old shoes piled high on rusty tables and there was one room he thought very odd but it made him smile . |
| 2 | He mentioned old times , the Army , you know , places we 'd been to . |
| 3 | There were some plans in existence and he studied old maps by R. Casson and J. Berry , which had appeared last in 1757 before the copper plates for them had been taken over by Harrop . |
| 4 | Some of Gram 's classic tear-in-my-beer stuff was clearly inspired by crooner George Jones , but the best of his songs are delivered with a shiver in the throat — as with Hank Williams and Jimmie Rogers , you could practically hear the hell-hounds on his tail as he addressed old girlfriends , southern vistas , and rotten townships and morbidly looked forward to his own druggy demise . |
| 5 | He strengthened old castles and built new ones . |
| 6 | He saw old Garbett 's tape recorder , he saw the wheels turning . |
| 7 | He wore old jeans , espadrilles and a torn blue T-shirt through which spilled a lot of black chest-hair . |
| 8 | Then on 12th April 1840 , he baptised Old Joseph 's newborn baby ‘ Ephraim ’ , who as an adult would inherit his father 's name , Joseph . |
| 9 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 10 | He remembered old dad VATman up at Hoomey 's sitting by the fire and how he had wanted to go there , and that made him think of a good name : Lucky Fireside … no , Firelight , Lucky Firelight . |
| 11 | Cos he get , he said old man |
| 12 | But he said old Crumwallis would never notice . |
| 13 | He drank Old England Cream Sherry . |
| 14 | BILLY Bonds delivered the message the rest of the Premiership is desperate to hear when he left Old Trafford insisting : Manchester United are not invincible . |
| 15 | But the film 's producer was a buddy of Douglas , and he wanted old dimple chin to play the drunken gunslinger opposite Jane Fonda as Cat . |