Example sentences of "did the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne 's mother told her that she had suggested that Molly came to them while Margaret was busy with nursing , but she and Margaret had decided that the company of the little girl did the old ladies more good than doctor 's medicine . |
| 2 | How did the old ones |
| 3 | What did the old gentleman think ? |
| 4 | Of all these , Augmentations was probably the most remarkable , since its accounting processes were modern and it used a more rational system for collecting revenues than did the old Exchequer . |
| 5 | When did the old bastard first tell you the truth ? ’ |
| 6 | I must have done , as not only did the Old Bill and the Ritas ( as in Meter Maid ) ignore me , but a real cabbie parked nearby came over to pass the time of day . |
| 7 | The problem with delaying is that the Protocol documents are sent through to the buyer 's conveyancers in dribs and drabs and this can take as many weeks as did the old system of going through preliminary enquiries , etc . |
| 8 | She did The Old Man and the Seal with ease , acting old , acting a big man and swimming the breast-stroke in the air , and they got it almost immediately and then she flopped on to Conrad 's knee and he laid his wine-filled head on her breast and somebody wiped a smear of black kohl from her cheek and she felt like a child again and thought of how Gabriel had nursed his little girl to sleep when she had been tired and fading away . |
| 9 | How the hell did the old man know he was here ? |
| 10 | Did the old man play the violin ? |
| 11 | The coalition facilitated a realignment from the two-party Liberal-Unionist contest in 1914 to the Labour-Conservative battles of the late 1920s ; only with the triumph of coalition in 1916 did the old politics die , and only with the destruction of coalitionism in 1924 could the new politics be born . |
| 12 | When did the old age pension come in ? |
| 13 | Why did the old woman wait so long ? |