Example sentences of "[noun] among the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a common practice among the old rural community in East Anglia , and here is a typical account of it taken from a man who was born at Stonham Aspal , Suffolk : |
| 2 | Now they can not possibly do these things without becoming painfully aware , as I am sure they are already , of the problems arising through lack of financial er er financial sufficiency or poverty among the old people . |
| 3 | The in-house cinema ( ‘ where they used to watch porn movies , ’ speculate the new occupiers ) , complete with massive Soviet projectors , is now used for film shows that would have caused apoplectic fits among the old inhabitants . |
| 4 | He was bundled into the back among the old tyres and coils of rope , while she climbed into the front beside the driver . |
| 5 | Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances . |
| 6 | The Gladstone Pottery , named after the statesman in honour of his visit to Burslem ( q.v. ) in 1863 , is in Uttoxeter Road , and is now a working museum of the industry , with four preserved bottle ovens among the old brick buildings . |
| 7 | The day before we left , we celebrated Ned 's 21st with lunch in a good restaurant ( the popping of the champagne cork causing much alarm and despondency among the old dears at the next table ) . |
| 8 | Instead of going over to Pyke , Terry led me to a corner table among the old men who drank alone every night , and there he calmly sucked his roll-ups as we sipped our usual pint with a whisky chaser . |