Example sentences of "old [noun sg] 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 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 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 . |
| 19 | Blake launched his fifty-four year old body at the lumbering figure . |
| 20 | ‘ Do I remember you ? ’ she responds to a bad old lad at the back . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | ‘ We owed old Fredor at the Crimson Leech eight silver pieces , ’ he added . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 " . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So we evolved a brilliant idea of hiding a brush in an old tree at the end of the dyke so that we could brush the dirt off afore we got there . |
| 29 | It 's a little sad , like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard . |
| 30 | It was the Sea Rover , soon to be a'roving once more with her old Captain at the helm . |