Example sentences of "comes [prep] [art] old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comes from an old cottage garden just round where I . |
| 2 | The defence lawyer , aged 41 , who comes from an old Berlin Jewish family , has impressive qualifications for what may become his most difficult case so far . |
| 3 | For entry into local authority residential care Sinclair ( 1988 ) observes that such decisions are made as a response to a crisis arid that the idea of entering care rarely comes from the older person concerned . |
| 4 | The face is dished , like that of the Jersey , and it probably has some Jersey blood from the nineteenth century , while the brindling probably comes from the old Normandy Isigny variety , a good butter producer and big enough to be used as a draught ox on Alderney and Guernsey , whither it was taken by monks in the time of William the Conqueror . |
| 5 | The name tystie , which comes from the old Norse language , may refer to the birds ’ high-pitched , ‘ reedy ’ call . |
| 6 | The name comes from the old Norse word meaning ‘ to gush ’ and was not only given to the township nearby , but got into the English language as a descriptive name for any jet of water . |
| 7 | " Crackpot " comes from the Old Norse meaning " pothole of the crows " , and there is a fine view from its ruins downdale to Muker . |
| 8 | Proceeding from Princes Street along Waterloo Place on comes to the Old Calton Burial Ground where there is a memorial to the Chartists ; the tombs of the philosopher David Hume and Archibald Constable , Sir Walter Scott 's publisher ; and a monument to Abraham Lincoln . |
| 9 | Caledor II comes to the Old World to supervise the defeat of the Dwarf kings . |