Example sentences of "very [adv] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picasso was quite capable of working conventionally as well as experimentally , and Max Jacob himself was not keen on the drawing , which made him look ‘ very much the old peasant ’ . |
| 2 | This was very much the old Oxfordshire , in which the Earl of Macclesfield of Shirburn Castle was uninterrupted as chairman of the county council from 1937 until 1967 . |
| 3 | Ward was very much the old Etonian now , his manner still mild , but with something in the voice that held Rodriguez riveted , both hands on the table and his bottom half out of his seat . |
| 4 | Cos very often the older people . |
| 5 | But I should say very often the old Guv'nor would let him have either a shilling to go down to the pub while we did the job , or else he would provide him with a jug of home-brewed beer and bread and cheese . |