Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan , from Hatfield , Herts , watched Fallon , 35 , being jailed for attempted murder at the Old Bailey . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd go to the public gallery at the Old Bailey and listen to the trials . |
| 3 | On the contrary , it is time to treat religion as something strange and outside the ordinary run of life , something which , mysteriously , has had a vast effect on people , over which wars were fought and people were burned and persecuted , and which still has an effect on people ; something which can not be reduced to mere kindness at the old people 's parties or village jumble sales , but which has inspired some of the most splendid painting , writing , music , and architecture ever to be produced by the human imagination , and is still capable of producing martyrdom , cruelty , and sectarian passion . |
| 4 | Despite herself Ages smiled with real warmth at the old crocodile-Magill was never a moose — shedding genuine crocodile tears . |
| 5 | In those twenty minutes , Luke had told him that he had found part-time employment at the Old Rectory , Anna had told him that his mother had found employment at a Windsor gift shop , and his mother-in-law , Laura , had telephoned to say she had landed three lines in a television commercial for an Irish stout , dressed as a pearly queen . |
| 6 | Identical twin boys , aged 14 , were found guilty of robbery and attempted robbery at the Old Bailey yesterday after holding up two women with air pistols in Wembley . |
| 7 | The arrangement on Deep Level at the Old Engine Shaft is suggested in the reconstruction Fig 14 . |
| 8 | The ceiling of the Great Hall at the old Euston Station was deliberately modelled on that of the church of St Peter extra muros in Rome . |
| 9 | The interior banister at the Old Rectory is of granite and is certainly bold and massive , with ceiling-high columns half enclosing the staircase . |
| 10 | A man who strangled his so-called nagging wife has been given an eighteen month suspended sentence at the Old Bailey . |
| 11 | In fact , the teenager 's potential was also spotted by Colin Graham , who was assistant producer for the first performances during a short season at the old Scala Theatre , before taking over as producer for a three-month countrywide tour , finishing at London 's prestigious Royal Court Theatre . |
| 12 | Each performance at the Old fire Station will begin with a speech from Wilde 's grandson … |
| 13 | I mean , if your policy renewal date was December , you 're off in November , you only get one payment at the old rate , and the next one 's at the newer rate . |
| 14 | His working life started as a protege of the acclaimed art deco designer , Clarice Cliff , with whom he trained as an engraver in his first job at the old AJ Wilkinson factory . |
| 15 | But now Hughie , a man who built his first craft at the old Whitehall shipyard in 1950 , believes everything is ebbing away from Whitby . |
| 16 | Police and fire chiefs are investigating the cause of blaze at a former school at the old Linton School in Linton , near Grassington . |
| 17 | ‘ Laurence Taylor died at Stubbylee of Asiatic Cholera , having arrived from Liverpool only on Saturday last ; he was interred the same day at the old Baptist Chapel . ’ |
| 18 | Then in 1952 Coppi was once more in the yellow jersey at the old Parc des Princes track in Paris . |
| 19 | For instance , BBC staff who sell their own house at the old location and buy another property at the new location receive a grant of £1094 to cover the cost of miscellaneous expenses . |
| 20 | The fiction I had read predicted gaudy roles for me — as private tutor at the old stone mansion where peacocks roost in the yew hedges and chalky bones are discovered in the sealed-up priest 's hole ; as gullible ingénu at an eccentric private establishment on the Welsh borders stuffed with robust drunkards and covert lechers . |
| 21 | Prior to the sado-masochism case at the Old Bailey , the law on what type of physical harm a person might consent to was , at the very least , uncertain . |
| 22 | In 1730 , at the Somerset Assizes , the deadly fever similarly affected judges , barristers ' clerks and prisoners until several hundred were dead , and in 1750 there was a virulent outbreak at the Old Bailey . |
| 23 | The same applies in the labour market where workers made unemployed do not immediately reduce their asking wage and take up a new job — instead , they spend some ( possibly quite considerable ) time searching for a new job at the old wage . |
| 24 | He was in the Lilian Baylis 1937 season at the Old Vic and returned to the Westminster for Pygmalion , Richard III , and more O'Neill , including a memorable portrayal of the old Ephraim Cabot in Desire Under The Elms in 1940 . |
| 25 | In October 1987 it featured as an exhibit of an altogether different type , in a private criminal prosecution at the Old Bailey . |
| 26 | They could cut the face value of their loans by 35% , but get the old interest rate on what was left ; keep the original face value , but cut the interest rate to 6.25% ; or swap old debt for new debt at the old rates and face value , but with a promise to lend up to 25% more money , and without any of the security ( in the form of zero-coupon bonds held by America 's Federal Reserve ) that the two more generous options offered . |
| 27 | There 's a distinctly Georgian atmosphere at the old Hobnails Inn at Washbourne near Tewkesbury . |
| 28 | Emily and I let the girls home early and then returned for one last look at the old building . |
| 29 | He admitted it last week at the Old Bailey . |
| 30 | There arose within me without warning , and as if from a depth not of years but of centuries , the memory of that earlier morning at the Old House when my brother had brought his toy garden into the nursery . |