Example sentences of "an old [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana , wearing an old primrose suit by her favourite designer Katherine Walker , was totally indifferent to her husband as they walked across the tarmac . |
| 2 | Why spend a week 's wages on a kite , a lot more on the line(s) then insult the lot by wrapping those lines around an old cocoa tin — or worse , around the handle in a bulky bundle ? |
| 3 | She reached for an old brass key . |
| 4 | The fire probably started in a rubbish dump , above an old strip mine a few miles east of the town , in May 1962 . |
| 5 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 6 | An old Bakelite telephone responds with a crackling dial tone . |
| 7 | It 's an old cottage type really . |
| 8 | The Noisette roses are an old cottage garden favourite of yesteryear , consisting of repeat and perpetual flowering climbers , invariably of considerable beauty . |
| 9 | It comes from an old cottage garden just round where I . |
| 10 | The following lines in an old poem point to some of the signs of foul weather . |
| 11 | At a time when the price of an Old Master painting can consume an entire annual acquisition budget , Mr Brown 's burnishing of the gallery 's image may have done more for the permanent collection than is immediately apparent . |
| 12 | DISCOVER AN OLD MASTER Question-and-answer guide to choosing vintage wines for all occasions |
| 13 | Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated . |
| 14 | In a darkened room , with a flash of lightning and a crash of thunder , an Old Master oil painting comes alive as the host , a beautiful bald headed woman , appears with a giant glass of Guinness . |
| 15 | In another , an Old Master oil painting comes alive as a bald female head appears , floating in space , to blow the smell of hops and barley around the room . |
| 16 | Guy Stair Sainty , an Old Master dealer who had sold nothing in any previous Art Show , sold seven pictures the first day , and is reported to have sold at least one painting in the high six figure range . |
| 17 | In the depths of winter , from an old seaside house in Portbello , almost 200 copies of Girl 's Own Paper and Women 's Magazine , dating from 1913 , had been transported to the cellars . |
| 18 | As the Lent term progressed , besides his letters to Helen and Harry ( containing verses , some of which survive ) and his quick recovery from his failure to gain an entrance scholarship to Merton , he had renewed an acquaintance with MacAlister — an old Pauline friend — who visited him each Sunday . |
| 19 | Francis has aggravated an old groin problem in training , and said : ‘ You can count me out for the next two weeks . ’ |
| 20 | How reliable this will be is difficult to say , since it could n't find an old Logitech Serial Mouse we had on the test machine , but always found the pre-loaded mouse driver — but this is beta test software , so there 's still work to be done . |
| 21 | It 's a bit weird it 's an old council house . |
| 22 | As the clues trickle out and the town 's secrets are slowly unmasked , Lynch luxuriates over the images onscreen , focusing on tiny details a motorcycle reflected in the pupil of Laura 's eye in an old home video ; a cryptic letter ‘ R ’ dug out from underneath her fingernail in a morgue whose fluorescent lights flicker nervously that makes the show such a visual delight . |
| 23 | It is perhaps more exciting , however , to leave one 's discoveries to chance ; thee can be great satisfaction in wandering round an old country church and suddenly stumbling across an 18th or 19th-century Persian rug that no one has recognized before . |
| 24 | One of my most favourite dining rooms was in an old country farmhouse with brick floors . |
| 25 | This was an old country house with large grounds providing room for about sixty to seventy people . |
| 26 | Once the Highland mansion of the Keiller family of Dundee , the 4-star Craigendarroch Hotel has all the charm of an old country house … and prides itself on offering the high standards of yesteryear . |
| 27 | A Darkfall storm on or near some kind of human habitation ; let's say … an old country house . |
| 28 | Four years ago a couple began work on a garden to be laid out on the site of an old country house . |
| 29 | We rounded the top of Upper Loch Fyne listening to an old Madonna tape , the Material Girl singing ‘ Papa Do n't Preach , ’ which raised a smile from me , at least . |
| 30 | Perhaps the expats could do an Old Codgers Corner . |