Example sentences of "[noun sg] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The palaeontologist was an Ezekiel calling to life the dry bones ; but in this case the old sign ‘ here be dragons ’ was apt , and the prophet was bringing diabolical creatures to life — perhaps a Frankenstein rather than an Ezekiel . |
| 2 | Just in case the old man needed her . |
| 3 | In any case the old man was n't the sort to let you take a close look at anything that did n't directly concern you . ’ |
| 4 | Disheartened by this blow the old King was persuaded to recognize Henry Plantagenet as his heir . |
| 5 | Tetanus the old name is lockjaw . |
| 6 | At this hour the old railway line was a busy thoroughfare . |
| 7 | Auntie Kate , as they called the old wife , proved ‘ a dear old soul , and of course the old boy , he used to tell us all stories about over the sea . ’ |
| 8 | And of course the old man was there and he come over and grabbed the bloke by the throat and he said do n't you ever shout at my son like that again . |
| 9 | And of course the old keeper knew what was there alright when he saw the old dog coming out . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course the old rip was negligent , ’ he conceded to Sister Cooney later . |
| 11 | And of course the old fellow 's holes went out but they went right over him nev never a scratch on him . |
| 12 | And of course the old joke goes like er I got two brothers and each brothers got a sister and I 've got a sister . |
| 13 | Therefore although the interest charge is well down , profit before tax was down sixteen percent , it 's down sixteen percent er because of course the old extraordinaries , the extraordinaries we had below the line in ninety one the eight million you see net profit on disposals are back above the line in under F R S Three , that 's the Elsevere profit less the Smith Var losses very broadly speaking . |
| 14 | The castle 's stunted squad of masons and builders were still working to repair the damage the old man had done by tearing down walls in his attempt to prove these hidden glyphs were isolated aberrations , not — as they indeed were — ubiquitous . |
| 15 | Yeah catching rabbits a hedge and cut down a stick you know at the corn on the old and if we were lucky we used to get erm we used to er seat the old fella on the boiler and have a ride round on one of the horses . |
| 16 | With the advance of communication and storage technology , and the proven inadequacy of passive , unhelpful search programs — both of the keyword Boolean type and the browsing , phrase-matching type — it seems likely that in the not-far-distant future the old reference retrieval software will fall into disuse , intermediaries will be redeployed and we shall be able to throw away our front-ends to DIALOG . |
| 17 | Downstream the relative altitude of the terrace decreases and immediately east of the lower Rhone the old course of the Durance plunges beneath the alluvial spread of the Rhone delta to a depth of at least 50 m ( 160 ft ) . |
| 18 | Possibly , Louis had in mind the old proverb : ‘ It is better to think what we say than to say what we think . ’ |
| 19 | The following extracts from it , written before Edward had met Helen Noble but after he had left St. Paul 's catches the effect the old man had upon the young would-be writer : |
| 20 | In true light the old woman 's skin was brown and her hair indeed was white as cotton , while her eyes were the boiled white of eggs . |
| 21 | The young mouth the old words but they mean nothing by them . |
| 22 | And then on the left hand side the old houses continue and the female I interviewed er I reckoned there had been a house there that had been knocked down , and they built a wee bungalow . |
| 23 | As well as being very particular about the horses ' condition the old horsemen were equally concerned about their appearance . |
| 24 | No wonder the old boy stares obliquely off the back cover like a guilty-looking Archie Andrews . |
| 25 | But I mean , er you can see the , you can see the point of that and and presumably , yes , there must be lots of very wealthy people who who er , just get the child benefit and hardly notice it but at the same time , could n't we means test the old age pension ? |
| 26 | Under the 1980 Local Government Planning and Land Act the old loan sanction procedure disappeared , and with it some of the detailed controls . |
| 27 | And only after he had paid back every penny of his debt on the new barrow and been left with hardly any spare cash to talk of did he begin to realise just how good a costermonger the old fellow must have been . |
| 28 | If a new kitten is brought into the home the old cat may feel slighted by all the attention the newcomer is receiving . |
| 29 | Although the supposed bringer of good luck is likely to be put on display , there are no plans to rename the pub The Old Nag 's Head . |
| 30 | There was of course no sudden switch to solos and duets with continuo or other independent instrumental accompaniment , yet by the mid-century the old forms of madrigal , polyphonic chanson , and Lied were obsolescent . |