Example sentences of "[noun sg] at a old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcia Fleat , 39 , was going to work at an old folk 's home when her Vauxhall was hit as it pulled out of a junction . |
| 2 | Joanne Gurney spat abuse at an Old Bailey jury for convicting her live-in lover Frederick Feathers of murder . |
| 3 | At another inquest , a jury has decided that a man who was scalded to death in a bath at an old people 's home was the victim of an accident . |
| 4 | ‘ My father tied with another man at an Old Newton furrow-drawing match : both had a quarter-inch deviation — it must have been about sixty years ago . |
| 5 | He pointed across the stable yard at an old , disused door propped against a wall . |
| 6 | We did a show at an old people 's home one evening . |
| 7 | ‘ What we want , then , Inspector , ’ he said bracingly , ‘ is a new avenue or fresh look at an old one . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , a new look at an old problem , ’ said Henry Tyler at once . |
| 9 | Xorandor is a tale set in the near future of two twelve-year-old fraternal twins called Jip and Zab who find a talking stone at an old carn in their native Cornwall . |
| 10 | And now he was to have his first big test as editor at a gathering at an old Big Flame haunt , the Beechwood conference centre near Leeds , a worker 's co-operative , complete with wholefood canteen . |