Example sentences of "by [adj] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article was accompanied by that old picture you 've all seen before of Jonny Woodward on Beau Geste at Froggatt , described in the caption as a ‘ prime potential target for bolting ’ . |
| 2 | It 's been killed by that old mad woman . |
| 3 | You 'll not allow any of those beautiful antique pieces to be taken away by that old woman . |
| 4 | It 's run by that old ruffian , Chatterton . |
| 5 | The females close in on him , led by some old lady dolphin who has obviously had much practice at settling sharks . |
| 6 | You killed him , during the journey , paid off the cab in Cheapside and left the body to be discovered by some old biddy in Liverpool Street station . ’ |
| 7 | This wild area is quite shaded by some old apple trees which were the only trees in the garden when they moved in . |
| 8 | The waste ground is separated from a park by some old fencing which is in need of repair . |
| 9 | I am intrigued by this old man who seems so unimpressed by everything we find attractive and interesting . |
| 10 | All the quality papers led with an assessment of Too Long a Winter , and marvelled at the astonishing life led by this old lady with the gleaming white hair in that frozen lonely Yorkshire dale . |
| 11 | I was annoyed by this old man , smiling . |
| 12 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 13 | All right , he was what he was : he was n't fundamentally a nice man , yet , had he been greeted in the beginning by this old woman as Andrew Jones had , how different things might have been . |
| 14 | Genevieve ( 1953 ) , one of Rank 's biggest successes of the decade , was directed by another old Ealing hand , Henry Cornelius , who left the studio after making Passport to Pimlico . |
| 15 | That ‘ blatant behaviour ’ was confirmed by another old friend of the Duchess who saw the couple sharing an intimate dinner for two ‘ with their legs entwined under the table ’ in Chelsea 's exclusive L'Incontro restaurant earlier this year . |
| 16 | The plot , such as it is , involves Billy The Kid ( Emilio Estevez — cardboard characters a speciality ) being given a pardon by the Governor , shafted by politicians , springing his old mates from the nick , and making a run for the border pursued by another old mate who 's sold out to the law . |
| 17 | The plot , such as it is , involves Billy The Kid ( Emilio Estevez — cardboard characters a speciality ) being given a pardon by the Governor , shafted by politicians , springing his old mates from the nick , and making a run for the border pursued by another old mate who 's sold out to the law . |
| 18 | In 1859 , as a ten-year-old abandoned orphan , he is found and adopted by the Cheyenne , and is made a brave called Little Big Man by Chief Old Lodge Skins ( Chief Dan George ) . |
| 19 | Paul , who had fallen asleep in front of the TV after making chips , was wakened by 11-month old Keely coughing . |
| 20 | Medieval Market Square , one of the largest in England , is surrounded by fine old buildings , including Welsh House , completely restored in 1975 in its original 16th Century form . |
| 21 | Most of the chart is taken up by tired old album tracks , reissues , remixes — hardly value for money . |
| 22 | To the east are the Aonachs , the brooding big beasts tamed to a degree now by poor old Aonach Mor 's ski-tows , which it wears uncomfortably like a lorry driver sporting gold neck chains . |
| 23 | I detest Iñaki Anasagasti , parliamentary spokesman for the Basque Nationalist Party , who requests that the title of Picasso 's painting be changed from ‘ Guernica ’ to ‘ Madrid ’ , as if the name chosen by poor old Pablo after the work was completed were the whole basis of its conception . |
| 24 | And is n't it a little moving to think of all these various people being moved by poor old Eddy 's death ? |
| 25 | The Act was welcomed by many old people because it gave them a regular income free from the taint of poor relief ; though many , rightly , criticized it for giving ‘ too little too late in life ’ , that little was more than had been given before . |
| 26 | Reference to Hugh Andrew 's tables will show that such a size of ‘ chute will give a fast descent when carrying 350g or 12.3oz , yet John Barker regularly operates with 450g ( 15.8oz ) fauna , arriving at his parachute size by good old eyeball engineering . |
| 27 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 28 | Another of his own productions , this was directed by tough old boot Robert Aldrich who found Douglas ‘ impossible to work with ’ . |
| 29 | In February 1965 , the new Labour Postmaster General , Tony Benn , asked the chairman of the BBC , Lord Normanbrook ( ‘ a stupid man … at the very centre of the Establishment ’ Benn thought ) , and the Director-General , Sir Hugh Greene , why the BBC would not provide a radio service to satisfy the demand being fed by dilapidated old rust-buckets moored in the North Sea blasting rock music to the mainland day and night . |
| 30 | THERE would have been a report in today 's paper about the first parachute jump to be undertaken by 81-year-old old Mick Terrans , chairman of Durham County Council . |