Example sentences of "[coord] a old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nature spirit who often appears as a wild boar or a old crone ( Cailleach Bheur , meaning ‘ old woman ’ ) . |
| 2 | Then place some packing against the wall just above the centre of the board to protect the plaster , and insert a lever such as a slim crowbar or an old chisel between board and wall . |
| 3 | The Nature Conservatory Council , who thankfully own Creag Meagaidh , have a couple of suggestions , including it being a monument to a lost lover or an old protection for a rowan tree . |
| 4 | A carer , I suggest , is someone with responsibility for a child , or an old person , or someone with a handicap , or a chronic illness . |
| 5 | Make sure you do n't put the ice directly on the skin as you could burn the area — wrap it in a tea towel or an old shirt first . |
| 6 | And there was poor Fred , speaking up for the reviled council block in which he , unlike any of the others , lived : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad , it 's a lot of it exaggeration , ’ he interposed mildly , as Steve repeated the time-worn allegation that it was n't safe to walk under the deck walkways for fear of having a television set or an old mattress chucked on your head : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad at all . ’ |
| 7 | The vibrator , too , might well have some other application like soothing a dog 's or an old lady 's rheumatic shoulder . |
| 8 | Is it a young lady or an old lady ? |
| 9 | there is an argument , ha and it 's been put by er a a noted writed who 's recently written on the menopause that , work , and you should just make the most of being a crone or a hag or an old women ! |
| 10 | I have for many years enjoyed dabbling with valve amplifiers , usually modifying old ones , but all the information I have has to be gleaned from circuit diagrams or an old Mullard handbook containing a selection of designs ( I 'm sure you know the one ! ) . |
| 11 | Roses and orchids are too obviously beautiful , and so they lack this remnant of grace : maybe , if there is any harmony left for us to discover , maybe we shall as soon apprehend it in dog shit or an old man 's spittle , sizzling on the grate . |
| 12 | Sometimes I caught the Feldwebel looking wistfully out of the window at a dilapidated horse and cart or an old man on a bicycle but he controlled himself and tried to make polite conversation . |
| 13 | There are two types of patentable invention , a product invention and a process invention , and it has been said that an invention is a new way of making something old or an old way of making something new . |
| 14 | It might be an old man , or an old woman . |
| 15 | They can literally walk in the footsteps of people in the past , walking a section of Roman road or an old packhorse track , or following the route of an abandoned railway , or perhaps storming a hill-fort or castle . |
| 16 | ‘ An old friend , or an old lover ? |
| 17 | It 's a tradition or an old charter or something . |
| 18 | Probably tradition or an old charter or something . ’ |
| 19 | It 's tradition or an old charter or something . ’ |
| 20 | It 's a tradition or an old charter or something . ’ |
| 21 | One hears so many discussions in the name of drama from children in role as town councillors arguing about building a swimming baths or an old people 's home . |
| 22 | Benefits affected by admission to hospital For details see leaflet NI9. ( f your elderly parent is admitted to hospital or an old people 's home under the National Health Service , there may be a reduction in , or a withdrawal of , certain State benefits ( but this will not apply if she enters a charitable home or has treatment as a private patient ) . |
| 23 | ‘ My dear , ’ she said , ‘ I will never be in a hospital or an old people 's home . |
| 24 | He said the fumes could have proved fatal to someone on their own or an older person . |
| 25 | She has two sons , both married with families , who live at some distance , and an older sister living in Brighton who cares for a disabled husband . |
| 26 | , Francis Robert ( 1785–1863 ) , Conservative party agent , was born in London 6 September 1785 , he and an older sister Susan being the only surviving children ( two sons and a daughter having died in infancy ) of Francis Warren Bonham , landowner of Ballintaggart , county Kildare , who later settled in England , and his second wife Dorothea Sophia Herbert of Muckross , county Kerry . |
| 27 | Instead of the sexy bits he 'd opted for poetic descriptions of London at night and the philosophic chapter from his last book about the beauties of a relationship between a young girl and an older man . |
| 28 | It should really help sell this strong historical romance set in America and Norfolk with a moving story of a young heroine and an older man . |
| 29 | From its position near the window she noticed that Silas and an older man occupied a corner table , while a party of sixteen young men was divided between the four central tables . |
| 30 | The court heard that McGregor had been caught up in attempts by a neighbour to end a relationship between his 20-year-old daughter and an older man . |