Example sentences of "old lady [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ol old lady across the road er |
| 2 | She 's a poor old lady at the moment . |
| 3 | The old lady at the Post Office was standing outside as they went by . |
| 4 | Over a cup of tea she regaled the old lady with the story of her son and grandchild saving the wounded squirrel , and , leaving her to pass it on to her companions , she drove back to the surgery . |
| 5 | I tried a pink old lady with the future of the universe mapped on her face with linear symbols just waiting to be decoded by anyone who had the wisdom and the patience to want to do so . |
| 6 | you see because living here like this and er I mean , I mean only yesterday I heard of an people burst in the door and this old lady on the head and where 's your money and that sort of thing , you know , so it it 's really terrible . |
| 7 | Her hands seemed still , she looked old , she looked wrinkled , she looked — no , no , she could n't , would n't look , like the faded old lady on the bench . |
| 8 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 9 | The grand old lady of the Arts Theatre was finding retirement almost unbearably tedious . |
| 10 | Straining the last possible revolutions from her roaring Paxman engines , the old lady of the fleet , Vigilant was first to reach Guiding Lights , but despite darkness and mist had to wait no more than a few minutes for the other cutters to join her — a feat of seamanship that later lead to great praise from their Investigation colleagues ashore . |
| 11 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 12 | In the end , the mother had sent for an old lady from the Isle of Anglesey , thought to be a witch . |
| 13 | Especially in view of the fact that , in the far corner , the old lady in the wheelchair was making determined but unsuccessful efforts to get up and walk . |
| 14 | As we trooped out of the hall , the old lady in the wheelchair was still trying to get up , and Clara Beeding was kneeling in front of her . |
| 15 | The people at the GPO were also remarkably efficient , since letters addressed as vaguely as ‘ The Old Lady in the TV Programme , Somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales ’ were faithfully delivered . |
| 16 | Behind the old lady in the hall stood the little brass dinner gong , but even that looked much smaller than in memory . |
| 17 | The other bloke was being sat on by three other passengers , including the little old lady in the straw hat , while Preston hopped around moaning and clutching his wrist , but he did not tell Polly this . |
| 18 | A court was told that Rebecca Frak punched the old lady in the face , leaving her with a bruised eye . |
| 19 | Then the hand got higher and the grip tighter and suddenly Sally was not looking at me but at the old lady in the chair and saying sharply : ‘ Mrs Cody ! |
| 20 | Surely some old lady in the parish ? ’ |
| 21 | If you do get up later and find an old lady around the house , then — ’ |
| 22 | A creature that frightens old ladies across the road . |
| 23 | To enhance Wal-Mart 's folksy , small-town image , Walton placed little old ladies at the door of each store , to act as official greeters . |
| 24 | But the GDR , as Dieter will confirm , I 'm sure , happens still to have the morality of Salem when they are putting little old ladies to the torch — at least at the highest political level . |
| 25 | And , every now and again , their young mothers , since at least three old ladies in the neighbourhood of the Passage were well-known for their services to girls in trouble . |
| 26 | A wind such as East Anglia only knows , cruel , ‘ lazy ’ ( too lazy to go round you , going through you instead ) , a wind which made the old ladies in the town say : ‘ Oi 've got me thermals on ’ . |
| 27 | ’ There were three older ladies in the foyer — white , rich-looking , in their fifties . |