Example sentences of "old [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of converting the programs from one machine code to another , we could envisage writing a program for the new computer to simulate the old computer at the instruction level . |
| 2 | Wanting to remain a child becomes unfeasible even to the most stupid old beard at the age of about 35 ; they eventually give up and accept they were born to be schoolteachers . |
| 3 | The day before we left , we celebrated Ned 's 21st with lunch in a good restaurant ( the popping of the champagne cork causing much alarm and despondency among the old dears at the next table ) . |
| 4 | The pinky hue of the eastern sky had begun to spill over the giant three centuries old building at the east end of the Square when I called at 7 a.m. sharp to meet him . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's an old building at the bottom of Wind Street , ’ |
| 6 | The old cow at the counter popped them in the microwave to warm them for him . |
| 7 | The Railside Revival Fund also put up cash for replacement gates at the North end of the station and working replicas of old lamps at the subway entrances . |
| 8 | Going Out to Eat and Drink : Old delis at the centre of the soul system : Delicatessens are the culinary outposts of our European immigrants . |
| 9 | So Iran continues to uphold the territorial integrity of its old enemy at the same time as bombing it . |
| 10 | I went to the cracked end of the old slipway at the north end of the island . |
| 11 | The Wakefield section uses the river Calder at first , on the opposite side of the which is Wakefield Old lock at the end of the short Old Wharf branch . |
| 12 | ‘ What nice shiny medals , ’ she said , spotting a hunchbacked old soldier at the Deeside Leisure Centre . |
| 13 | And apart from this exacerbation of old quarrels at the level of official and formal relations , religion lost some of its hold on the masses as it did less and less to provide channels for social protest . |
| 14 | Who 's that old tosser at the bar ? |
| 15 | Who 's that old tosser at the bar ? |
| 16 | Who 's that old tosser at the bar ? |
| 17 | Who 's that old tosser at the bar ? |
| 18 | You had to talk to those dear old folk at the Empress and I do n't blame you . |
| 19 | Old folk at the Wesley Court centre had collected hundreds of pounds to pay for the sing-a-long machine . |
| 20 | I was there for the full week , being lucky enough to have a brother living in Crosby , so was able to take in most of the events and sights of interest , as well as having the pleasure of meeting old comrades at the Cunard Building |
| 21 | The old lady at the Post Office was standing outside as they went by . |
| 22 | He urged me to look elsewhere — particularly in the fields owned by an old lady at the next farm called Low Birk Hatt , because they were far more colourful than his . |
| 23 | She 's a poor old lady at the moment . |
| 24 | COUNCILLORS are likely to consider whether the 11-year old girl at the centre of a Home Alone storm should be returned to her mother when she returns from her Spanish holiday , it emerged yesterday . |
| 25 | Then I rang Pusey : it was time , I felt , that we had a conference , and I asked him to get hold of Seddon and , if possible , someone from his old acquaintances at the Foreign Office who would know about current politics in North and West Africa . |
| 26 | A fourteen year old criminal at the centre of a row about trips to Spain paid for by social services may be going back to his grandparents ' home there for Christmas . |
| 27 | Blake launched his fifty-four year old body at the lumbering figure . |
| 28 | ‘ Do I remember you ? ’ she responds to a bad old lad at the back . |
| 29 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 30 | ‘ We owed old Fredor at the Crimson Leech eight silver pieces , ’ he added . |