Example sentences of "a [adj] old [noun] " in BNC.

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1	In the old days , incidentally , when a mother discovered her daughter was the innocent young victim of the lust of a rich old man , there were several obvious remedies .
2	She sent my son Branwell away , and later married a rich old man .
3	‘ You were marrying a rich old man for his money and rejecting the crippled boy who had been your sweetheart since childhood , and whose engagement ring you wore .
4	He did not know , indeed , which hurt him the most — the memory of the bright young girl she had been , or the knowledge that now , having sold herself to a rich old man , she had come , once that man had died , to try to buy him for herself .
5	So it 's lonely being a rich old man .
6	Much of the play is standard Restoration fare — two virtually interchangeable gallants with designs on the fair Miranda and the fair Clarinda ; a rich old curmudgeon ; a booby with romantic pretensions called Sir Samuel Hearty ; a would-be orator called Sir Formal Trifle ; manifold marital deceptions .
7	A florid old cherub ,
8	‘ Do n't know why , ’ said Gazzer. ‘ 'Cos you 're a bad-tempered old beggar , are n't you ? ’
9	Here Prem Hijra , a bad-tempered old eunuch with a bun and beady black eyes , offers courses in dancing ( folk , Bharat Natyam , Arab belly dancing or disco ) and singing ( traditional , ghazals or modern film songs ) to new recruits .
10	Fernando ( Jorge Sanz ) is a deserter who fetches up at the country home of Manolo , a lazy old artist .
11	Old Man with a Child has a little girl facing a seated old man who holds her hands , and in Old Man Holding an Infant the tiny baby is being cradled by a bald old man with bushy white side-whiskers .
12	On a turgid turner that had thwarted the seamers ' efforts until the 199th over of the match , Essex required a further 29 to avoid the follow-on on the final morning with four wickets intact , only to be denied by a spell of 3 for 1 in 14 deliveries that ultimately allowed Nick Cook to give the hosts ( and Britannic Assurance Championship leaders ) a right old grilling in the second dig ; but for Ambrose he might never have had the chance .
13	Meanwhile , on the other side of the park , a huge crowd of all ages has a right old laugh in front of the stage on which stomp a Teddy Boy-outfitted showband blasting out Showaddywaddy 's greatest hits liberally mixed with C&W classics .
14	Fellers come running , bobbies come running and it was a right old dust-up .
15	His idea was that if you come on the scene and there was a right old set-to , you wanted to be as fit as you can to get into the set-to .
16	‘ It 's in a right old mess . ’
17	‘ Well , I had to have my tonsils out when we were in the middle of producing Tamburlaine , which meant that the stage management made a right old mess of pulling on the chariot .
18	The rumour going round college is that the body was in a right old mess . ’
19	The term ‘ conflict ’ need not necessarily be limited to ‘ a right old barney ’ .
20	Whether or not we have a right old barney depends on how it is handled .
21	A right old balls-up that would be . ’
22	‘ In a right old sweat he was , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee tranquilly .
23	In a right old state
24	I went to the recruitin' office in a right old temper and I joined up there and then .
25	He 's in a right old stew .
26	Next , Corbett Farraday was home , at afternoon tea with his mama ( who sounds a formidable body , not to say a right old battleaxe ) .
27	The pair were having a right old giggle as they walked through Heathrow airport , despite a tiring flight from Los Angeles .
28	It was not easy to hear all that followed , but a right old tangle developed .
29	Maggie and Natasha were having their dinnertime piece , and a right old gossip , when Natasha suddenly whispered , ‘ I think you 're about to have a visitor . ’
30	The second thing Victor wants to say is that he was spurred into action by the piece on holes in bread , which has put one or two of you into a right old sandwich .

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