Example sentences of "on [prep] an old " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were passing thin poplars in a quiet so intense that you could hear the yellow poplar leaves dropping to the ground , on past an old stumpy church and a graveyard , with earthen walls and a beech hedge around it . |
| 2 | I ran towards it and flopped on to an old bench . |
| 3 | The robin hopped on to an old climbing plant on the wall , and sang his most beautiful song . |
| 4 | If you 'd had all people come in and try to bring in new ideas on to an old system , I do n't think it would have worked . |
| 5 | Anybody who does n't know where Hall is I would suggest they tag themselves on to an old lag . |
| 6 | She began taking A-levels while working as a secretary for the Commission for Racial Equality , and , urged on by an old Somervillian , wrote to Somerville . |