Example sentences of "my old [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | My old lorry driver |
2 | I keep her locked away , guarded by my old servant Grace Poole . |
3 | Mr Jones , my old PE teacher , had advised me to join an athletics club , so I went to West London Stadium , not far up from the old White City and adjacent to Wormwood Scrubs Prison . |
4 | My Old Dobbin syndrome , aided and abetted by friendship with Albert Rhys Williams , was the basic incentive for hitch-hiking about 12,000 miles to and from the interior of Russia during the holidays that summer . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | So I included lots of my old yoga positions in the routine and combined them with the small isometric movements for maximum impact on the muscles . |
7 | This move had three objects : to complete the education of our two younger children , Fiona at Fettes ( where my old Highfield playmate Inky Chenevix-Trench was now headmaster ) and Alastair at the Edinburgh Academy ; to have Moira 's mother who was living alone in an Edinburgh flat and becoming increasingly tottery to live with us ; and to own property once again and so benefit from its ever-increasing rise in value . |
8 | Here 's the third and final part of the excellent Creatures 2 solution , courtesy of my old hoppo Matthew Allen . |
9 | ‘ My old school friend 's just had a baby . |
10 | ‘ I want to visit my old school friend Nellie Musgrove , who lives in the Via Botteghe Oscure , ’ said Daisy firmly , ‘ so I may get Edwin to take me along there . |
11 | I got the same overpowering sense of mortality when I went to my old school reunion last week . |
12 | By the time you 're thirty you 'll have skin like my old school satchel . ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | A lot of my old school friends are doing that now and they are just hanging loose without a care in the world , it sounds great . |
15 | Eventually , I recover , and come to enjoy my mother and my old school friends , and the easy , sunny inertia of L.A. I swim every day and I love the blue sparkle of the pool , the glare of the sun and the sky on the water , and myself cleansed and pristine in the chlorinated wet of my morning routine , pre-smog , post-dope ; boys with blond moustaches saying , ‘ Have a good one ’ ; my baby blue Rent-a-car . |
16 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
17 | As soon as it 's light , my old school chums Finlayson , Richards and Callaghan will come with me and patrol the area Roeux-Riencourt . |
18 | My old friend Robson was head of your organisation during the last war , and I have a run-off of a cartoon dated October , 1939 , which he sent to me . |
19 | ‘ Is this table for my old friend Bill ? ’ the stranger asked , with a terrible smile . |
20 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
21 | Although there were more than 100 British nationals killed in the accident there was no provision at that time for a State with such an interest to participate , but knowing that the minister was bound to be asked by MPs in the House what arrangements there were for investigating the cause of death of so many UK citizens I telephoned my old friend Michel Vigier in paris with a formal request that we might send a UK observer . |
22 | ‘ I gather that your sergeant is related to my old friend Reggie Pooley . |
23 | My old friend Lesley ( Birds of a Feather ) Joseph showed up with her children . |
24 | Last Christmas my old friend Joseph had sunk lower in his chair from the year before but in the afternoon three old friends came to see him . |
25 | Indeed , I have made her immortal : my old friend Will Shakespeare wrote a play about a Danish prince called Hamlet who moons about the stage wondering whether he should kill his murderous mother . |
26 | Or is this perhaps my old friend Bernard Ingham coming in one more time to help the lady of his adoration ? |
27 | I have to say , however , that whenever he thought I was becoming a shade morbid on visions of apocalyptic doom , my old friend Archie Dow , would admonish me : ’ Ach , Andra , I 've been waitin' fir the end i' the world all my life . |
28 | Then there was the rural charm of my old friend Gerry Rafferty 's much loved weekly dander ‘ Listen Here Awhile ’ , the inquisitive ramblings round the countryside by ‘ Nomad ’ , and the contributions by that most famous of all Belfast local historians , Cathal O'Byrne . |
29 | On the television replay it was pretty clear , and even the doyen of television commentators , my old friend Bill McLaren , sounded slightly surprised as Gareth awarded the try . |
30 | I was delighted to see my old friend Bessie again . |