Example sentences of "like his old " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not like his old dad , eh ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Not at all like his old dad . ’ |
| 3 | Du n no about the bleepy cover of the old Traffic song on the CD , ‘ Low Spark of High Heeled Boys ’ , but Derry at least seems like his old fey self . |
| 4 | It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast . |
| 5 | ‘ Arazi has been working like his old self and I hope he can go back to America for the Breeders Cup and win like he did last year . ’ |
| 6 | Despite his subsequent recovery to something like his old form , Fox has n't quite been able to stop the shrinking process . |
| 7 | When he left school , he forgot entirely about the whole business , forgot about it for a couple of decades , forgot until this thin , tired fellow , looking so very much like his old school chaplain , came and hovered in the drive , the epitome , it seemed to Patrick , of the doubting kind of modern Anglican clergyman . |
| 8 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 9 | Just like his old man . |
| 10 | However , a third place in the Findus Chase behind River Tarquin at Leopardstown last Christmas showed him coming back to something like his old form and he certainly lost no admirers through his performance at Sandown . |
| 11 | Glentoran 's Neil Candlish , looking like his old explosive self , hit two in eight minutes and made a third for Damien Kelly with a superb cross , as the Glens swept into a three goal interval lead . |