Example sentences of "on [prep] [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most letters asked for autographs or photographs , some complained of or praised a person interviewed or view expressed , and there was always a sprinkling of old dears short of correspondents who rambled on about the old days . |
| 2 | You 're on about the old King George ! |
| 3 | I mean when he er you know when that thing was going on about the old ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At the end of this run the river strikes a high bank and swirls into a deep , clear pool , before swinging right and left , on under the old railway bridge , down towards Neidpath Castle . |
| 6 | How are you getting on with the old battleaxe ? ’ |
| 7 | Many Elves did return but others , such as those in Athel Loren , refused to abandon their adopted homeland and stayed on in the Old World . |
| 8 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |
| 9 | I ran towards it and flopped on to an old bench . |
| 10 | The robin hopped on to an old climbing plant on the wall , and sang his most beautiful song . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Anybody who does n't know where Hall is I would suggest they tag themselves on to an old lag . |
| 13 | We carry on to the old Jewish quarter ( Josefov ) and continue around to the E through the former Jewish ghetto , skirting the Old Town Square . |
| 14 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 15 | Around 300 yards past the car park and toilet area you pass through a wide kissing gate to get on to the old railway track . |
| 16 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 17 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
| 18 | The field station consists of a modern Ann Exe built on to the old coast guard station . |
| 19 | A shallow ramp , suitable for transporting wheelbarrows , will be provided from the waste land south of the Brunstane Bowling Green up on to the old railway embankment . |
| 20 | At best it is likely to lead to confusion as some people follow the new route and others hang on to the old one . |
| 21 | There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well . |
| 22 | From Dr Jaffery 's rooftop you could look out , past the anonymous walls which face on to the Old Delhi lanes , and see into the shady courtyards and the gardens which form the real heart of the Old City . |
| 23 | It was agreed that only ten people should tramp round the tiny cottage at a time ; the remainder were forced to mingle with the morning shoppers and then to walk on to the old St Mary 's Chapel , which once had held the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow and to which passing ships would lower their sails in honour . |
| 24 | Mistress Deveril took the road skirting London on to the old Roman highway bound for Oxford , Woodstock , and then Godstowe . |
| 25 | If they had been working logically , they would have built the new on to the old stopping here . |
| 26 | When he gets on to the old antibiotics he |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For some time now , and urged on by the old man 's taunts , he had been intent on fathering a child of his own . |
| 29 | Five years The tenant 's right to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , may be excluded or modified by agreement unless : ( 1 ) during the whole of the five years immediately preceding the date on which the tenant , under a tenancy to which the Act applies is to quit the holding , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if , during those five years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was a successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 , s38(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 30 | Fourteen years The tenant will be entitled ( in certain circumstances ) to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , equal to the production of the appropriate multiplier and twice the rateable value of the holding if : ( 1 ) during the whole of the fourteen years immediately preceding the termination of his tenancy , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if during those fourteen years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was the successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |