Example sentences of "old [noun sg] at [art] " 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 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's an old building at the bottom of Wind Street , ’ |
| 5 | The old cow at the counter popped them in the microwave to warm them for him . |
| 6 | So Iran continues to uphold the territorial integrity of its old enemy at the same time as bombing it . |
| 7 | I went to the cracked end of the old slipway at the north end of the island . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ What nice shiny medals , ’ she said , spotting a hunchbacked old soldier at the Deeside Leisure Centre . |
| 10 | Who 's that old tosser at the bar ? |
| 11 | Who 's that old tosser at the bar ? |
| 12 | Who 's that old tosser at the bar ? |
| 13 | Who 's that old tosser at the bar ? |
| 14 | The old lady at the Post Office was standing outside as they went by . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She 's a poor old lady at the moment . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A few years back , I bought an old desk at an auction and , when I got it home , found that the drawers had not been emptied by its previous owner . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Any member of my profession ( the second oldest ) will tell you that not a Sunday goes by without a request for you to present your battered old body at a similarly battered venue for the benefit of Dyslexic Seals , Anorexic Pastry Chefs or Friends of the Ozone Layer . |
| 21 | Blake launched his fifty-four year old body at the lumbering figure . |
| 22 | ‘ Do I remember you ? ’ she responds to a bad old lad at the back . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | ‘ We owed old Fredor at the Crimson Leech eight silver pieces , ’ he added . |
| 25 | Mrs Keith , Senior , who had been staying with Jim and Jean during Tina s confinement , then came back in the trap with Bruce to take up her old room at the Mackenzie 's again , and to help Hilda look after the house and wee Billy . |
| 26 | One of them is a teacher of deaf children at St Mary 's and she loved the old schoolroom at the museum and told me that her class were doing a project on Northern Ireland and she must bring them here to see it all . |
| 27 | An approach to family functioning which emphasises the interactions of each upon the other and their cumulative impact is essential if we are to understand adequately the position of an old person at a given time . |
| 28 | By the time Jamal Hamadan , accompanied by Sami Jafaar , arrived in Cyprus to meet his old friend at the Filanta hotel , Sergeant Mikalis had been banished to police school in Germany , and his successors in the room down the hall from the ‘ hot ’ suite had been drilled by Coleman to within an inch of their lives . |
| 29 | In an interview with Ulan Bator radio on Jan. 19 , the MDU leader Sanjaasurengiyn Dzorig ( a 27-year old lecturer at the Mongolian State University ) claimed that the organization 's key objective was to " accelerate and deepen the processes of reconstruction and renewal " . |
| 30 | I found a lens in an old box and I used , I got another two lenses , and I fitted them together in an a tube , I had no tubing but there was an old bicycle at the house and I cut up the frame and put one lens at the one end of the frame and the seat pillar , I used the seat pillar for focusing . |