Example sentences of "old [noun sg] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |
| 2 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 3 | The old cooking cause he 'll only eat a cooked dinner |
| 4 | In these brief forays of ours into the territory of Old Testament storytelling we do not , in fact , have to wait until Jonah to find the theology of Joshua 6 again under question . |
| 5 | In February 1952 King George VI died , and an Old Testament lecture I was attending stopped in the middle . |
| 6 | Back in Isaiah , chapter fifty three th the Old Testament prophet he paints that picture very graphically does n't he ? |
| 7 | Tim was looking through an old photograph album she 'd put out , with pictures of previous Christmases . |
| 8 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 9 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
| 10 | Oh , if it 's an old facial thing she 's getting real fatter ? |
| 11 | I he said , he 's an old type chemist he said just mention my name he said he perhaps fix you up with small quantities or try this other place in Wrexham he said they , chemist he said but they do wholesale work as well |
| 12 | We 're overwriting that mouse driver there , because that is my old mouse driver I think . |
| 13 | What did he pay that for and the old post office he got them , it was cheap |
| 14 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 15 | It 's the Old Wine Shop it 's called . |
| 16 | It 's the Old Wine Shop it 's Amington A M I N G T O N Oh it could be . |
| 17 | No old war injury you know . |
| 18 | What the precise purpose was of installing complex electronics in an old sailing vessel he did not know for sure , and Iain did not press him . |
| 19 | ‘ Once , against Swindon a couple of seasons ago , there 's this fat cunt and Geoff 's standing outside the ground before the match and this cunt bungs a bit of old dog shit he 's found by a hall at him and it hits him on the arm … |
| 20 | And the tired old game show he rode in on |
| 21 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 22 | If you 're an old age pensioner you can get get concessions but for the average person who who is n't one of those no chance . |
| 23 | In the daytime you can come back and look at the Old State House we 're coming up to and see the cobblestones which mark the place where blood was shed in the great Boston Massacre . |
| 24 | It 's off the er , yeah it 's off the old music box we used to have . |
| 25 | In particular , as an old union man he was thought to have a particularly sensitive , almost intuitive , understanding of the unions and how best to sell a policy of wage restraint to them . |
| 26 | . And that 's how they used to start the o and the old gas engine it used to pop pop pop , pop pop pop , pop pop pop pop . |
| 27 | Here , imagine the old Bill thinking we was old brasses ! ’ |
| 28 | Can anybody shed some light on an old air pump I got in a box of aquarium bits recently , at a car boot sale ? |
| 29 | In spite of having more than twice the capacity of the old Grassmarket theatre it has been recording 85 per cent audience capacity since opening last year . |
| 30 | It was an old world custom he adhered to . |